Amnesty International Ghana celebrated International Women’s Day on 8th March 2022 at Adawso in the Eastern Region. There were 120 participants made up of the Queen mothers of Adawso traditional area, the Presbyterian Women Association-Adawso, some Basic and Junior High School students, a singing...

Responding to news of the death of Tinashe Chitsunge, an opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) activist in Harare on Thursday, allegedly at the hands of ruling ZANU-PF supporters, Khanyo Farisè, Amnesty International’s Deputy Director for Southern Africa, said: “The fatal attack on Tinashe...

Reacting to news that Ghana’s Parliament voted to remove the death penalty from the 1960 Criminal and Other Offences Act and the 1962 Armed Forces Act, Amnesty International’s West and Central Africa Director Samira Daoud said:  “Now that the 2022 Criminal Offences (Amendment) Bill and 2022...

Reacting to the multiple restrictions on civic space and arbitrary arrests and detentions, Habibatou Gologo, Amnesty International’s Deputy Regional Director for West and Central Africa, said:  “The journalist Papé Alé Niang was arrested on the weekend of 29 July and then placed under a...