Amnesty International Ghana campaigns to expose human rights violations, challenge injustice and mobilise individuals, communities and institutions to demand meaningful change. Campaigning is central to the organisation’s work because human rights progress requires more than identifying problems; it requires sustained public pressure, evidence-based advocacy, collective action and accountability from those responsible for protecting and respecting rights. 

Amnesty International documented widespread violations by governments and other actors, failures of accountability and systemic injustices in 2025, alongside limited areas of progress. Many of these patterns have continued into 2026, as the international rules-based order faces sustained attack.

This report covers the judicial use of the death penalty for the period January to December 2025. As in previous years, information is collected from a variety of sources, official figures; judgments; information from individuals sentenced to death; their families and representatives; media reports; and, as specified, other civil society organisations.

The Ghanaian authorities have failed to protect and fulfil the human rights of hundreds of victims of witchcraft accusations and ritual attacks that forced them to flee their communities fearing for their lives, said Amnesty International in a new report.

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.

This petition is a joint effort from the members of the Coalition Against Withcraft Accusations (CAWA):