Amnesty International Ghana Eastern Regional Chapter led by the regional Coordinator El-samed organized a transformative Human Rights Education Program at the Asesewa Senior High School. The event which happened on the 23rd of October was aimed at throwing more light on the frequent “Online Sexual Harassment” which raised interesting conversations among students. An important area…
Students of Yikene JHS in the Upper East Region have been educated on Sexual and Gender-Based Violence by Amnesty International Ghana. It was organised by the regional coordinator Vida Anoya and supported by some other members. New members were also recruited at the event. The event which happened at Yikene Junior High School hosted a…
On 16th August, 2023, the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) Youth group led by the National Youth Coordinator for Growth, Lewis Ampem-Darko, paid a visit to the J.H.S section of the Deduako M/A school to deliver in-depth insight on the pressing issues of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV), highlighting mainly on its…
Below are the facts as presented in our 2022 Death Penalty Global Sentences and executions report GLOBAL EXECUTIONS Amnesty International recorded 883 executions in 20 countries in 2022, marking a 53% increase from 579 recorded in 2021. This figure represents the highest number of executions that Amnesty International has recorded in the past five years…
THE STATE OF THE WORLDS HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT-GHANA The Amnesty International Global State of Human Rights Report covers a comprehensive analysis of the State of Human Rights situations in our world today, covering 154 countries including Ghana. FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION The 2022 Reporters Without Borders World Press Freedom Index noted a regression in freedom of…
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 committal order on 1 August simply for doing his job as an…
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 Armed Forces (Amendment) Bill have been passed by Parliament,…
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 Chitsunge, a CCC activist, paints a grim picture of the human…