Human Rights

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 …

Sagnarigu, Ghana – Ghana’s Gender, Children and Social Protection Minister, Otiko Afisah Djaba, has implored District Social Welfare Officers in the country to work hard towards reducing increasing cases of child marriage, female genital mutilation, widowhood rites, witchcraft accusations and other forms of right violations. According to her, the Northern …

Kpandai, Ghana – Pupils of Kpandai D/A Primary School are appealing to the authorities, including government, to provide them with desks and tables to boost their academic performance. The school has no desks for pupils, making it difficult for them to undertake their lessons. Owing to the development, some pupils …

Buipe, Ghana – David Avorgbedor alias Sabu, a contractor of the Savannah Cement Company Limited (Savacem) at Buipe in the Central Gonja District, whose employee lost his right arm through a machine, says he is ready to compensate him and take full responsibility of the upkeep of his six children …

Wa, Ghana – The Disability Fund Management Committee of the Social Welfare at the Wa Municipal Assembly on Tuesday disbursed an amount of fifty-three thousand Ghana cedis (GHS53,000.00) to help better the lives of some Persons Living With Disability (PWDs). The money, which was taken from the PWD share of …

Buipe, Ghana – Investigation by Nkilgi FM at Bole has found out that a lot is happening at the Cement Company (SAVACEM) at Buipe in the Northern Region. Deaths, abuse of human rights of the workers by expatriate Indians, intimidations, threats and all this with the alleged tacit approval by …

Gnani, Ghana – Songtaba in partnership with Actionaid Ghana, UNFPA, STAR-Ghana and Ma Yurlim Foundation, has marked this year’s International Women’s Day with the provision of free health screening to 113 alleged witches and residents of Gnani. The poor, hopeless and frail looking women, mostly in their sixties were also …

Wa, Ghana – A Deputy Director of the Ghana Education Service (GES) in charge of Supervision in the Wa West District of the Upper West Region, Huudu Alkilah Kunnatey, has disclosed that the district has recorded high enrolment levels in recent times, but the lack of infrastructure is compounding the situation. …