Amnesty International Ghana has taken a significant step towards strengthening media partnerships to enhance human rights advocacy in the country. In a meeting held on February 6, key editors from leading media houses engaged in discussions aimed at fostering collaboration, ensuring accurate reporting on human rights issues, and establishing a framework for sustained engagement.
Ghana’s new President John Mahama and his government must seize the opportunity of his mandate to ensure the promotion and protection of human rights including gender equality and women’s rights, the right to freedom of peaceful assembly, and the right to a healthy environment for everyone in the country, Amnesty International said today, as he is sworn into office.
Amnesty International Ghana recently hosted its Annual Planning Meeting from 7th to 11th February 2024, reaffirming its commitment to safeguarding human rights across Ghana. The gathering brought together AI Ghana’s board, staff, and regional coordinators from all regions of Ghana to strategize and discuss plans for the year moving forward.
On November 18, 2023, Amnesty International Ghana (AI Ghana), under the leadership of the organization’s Growth and Activism Coordinator, Stephany Boateng, and the Human Rights Education and Youth Coordinator, James Selasi Quarshie, conducted a Human Rights Education and Membership Orientation at the Cape Coast Nurses and Midwifery Training College in the Central Region of Ghana. The event, attended by students from the college, featured the presence of the Central Regional Director for the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ), Mr. Daniel Amosah, Amnesty International Ghana Board Member Madam Gloria Emeka, and the Central Regional Coordinator for AI Ghana, Miss Estherla Banson.
On 15th July, 2023, the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) Youth Group led by the National Youth Coordinator for Growth, Lewis Ampem-Darko, put together a workshop on activism at the African Union Gardens on campus. It was a truly refining moment as the students were well inspired and motivated to take action in the defense of human rights.
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 Salt March in India in 1930 against British colonial rule; the Arab Spring uprisings, the anti-apartheid protests in South Africa. These mark key historical moments of change driven by people who refused to give up, who spoke truth to power – people who protested. Protest is a powerful force for change, and it’s because of the bravery of those who speak out that a more just and equal world is possible.