Human Rights

Wa, Ghana – The Upper West Regional Police Command has assured personnel at the Tumu Police Station of their support following an attack on the station Friday. The Regional Commander, DCOP Boapeah Kojo Otchere said they have begun an investigation into the incident and anyone found culpable will be duly …

Tamale, Ghana – Some four Municipal and District Assemblies in the Northern Region of Ghana have agreed to and adopted a set of by-laws to enable them fight dehumanising and injurious customary practices. At a short meeting in Tamale involving all except the East Mamprusi Municipal Assembly authorities to sign …

Zini, Ghana – Kuoro Abu Diaka Sukabe Ninia V, the Paramount Chief of the Zini Traditional Area, has declared zero tolerance for child marriage and gender-based violence against women, a situation that was widespread within communities in his area. He described those cultural practices and many others as bad and …

Wa, Ghana – The Upper West regional police command has arrested a mother and her son for inflicting razor wounds on two sisters for allegedly stealing an amount of 200 cedis. Briefing the media after the arrest, Deputy PRO for the regional police command Inspector Gideon Boateng said the two, …

Tamale, Ghana – The Northern Sector Manager of Marie Stopes Ghana, Patricia Antwi-Boasiako, has indicated that teenage pregnancy in the country should be a matter of concern to every parent. According to her, the first six months of 2017 recorded 57,000 teenage pregnancy cases nationwide, stressing the need for sexuality …

Pelungu, Ghana – Two persons are reported dead following a broad day robbery attack in the midst of busy market day activities at Pelungu in the Nabdam District of the Upper East Regional. According to eye witnesses, the gang of four robbers stormed a Rural Bank situated around the market …

Tamale, Ghana –  Alleged murderers of Sagnarigu based End Time Bible Believers Fellowship head pastor, Dogyi Kwame, 28 and Akwasi Obio, 21, have been remanded into prison custody by a Tamale High Court. Presiding Judge, Justice Edward Apemkwa on Tuesday remanded the accused persons into prison custody to reappear before the court …

Accra, Ghana – Executive Director of the Africa Centre for Security and Counterterrorism (ACSC) was on Monday April 16, 2017 given the beatings of his life by a Police patrol team from the Tema Regional Police Command. Explaining his ordeal In the hands of the police in a Facebook post, he …

Tamale, Ghana – Chiefs and elders of Mamprusi Communities in the Daboya-Mankarigu Constituency of the North Gonja District are calling for an inclusion in the yet to be created North East Region of Ghana. According to the chiefs, their decision to be part of the North East Region was borne out …

Slavery on our own land is what I choose to call it. The white skin has more significance than the oxygen my people breath. Until the day, when we realize the damage this mental slavery has done and is doing to ourselves and generation yet unborn, our system would keep …