Staff of state institutions have been urged to help in the fight against corruption by avoiding conflicts of interest in the discharge of their duties at their respective offices. According to speakers at a workshop on conflict of interest...
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Up to 25 journalists from selected media houses are undergoing a two-day capacity-building workshop on human rights in the context of media freedom, preventing hate speech and incitement of violence. The training is jointly being...
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The Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ), in collaboration with the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), UN Women, and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), has organized a...
More infoRICHARD ACKOM QUAYSON: CELEBRATING A MAN OF PROFESSIONALISM, ETHICS, INTEGRITY
The governance, transparency and accountability fraternity has lost a colossus in the late Mr Richard Ackom Quayson, who was a Deputy Commissioner of the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) until his death on...
More infoAFRICAN COURT AND NETWORK OF AFRICAN HUMAN RIGHTS INSTITUTIONS SIGN MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING FOR STRONGER RELATIONS
Arusha, 03 June 2024: The African Court on Human & Peoples’ Rights (AfCHPR) and the Network of African Human Rights Institutions (NANHRI) on Monday 3 June 2024, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to build a stronger...
More infoAKUFO-ADDO URGED TO DO THE NEEDFUL AND ASSENT TO ANTI-WITCHCRAFT BILL
Commissioner of the Commission of Human Rights and Administrative Justice, Justice Joseph Akanjolenur Whittal, has called on President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to do the needful and assent to the Anti-Witchcraft Bill. This, he believes...
More infoCHRAJ WANTS CRIMINAL OFFENCES (AMENDMENT) BILL 2022 ASSENTED TO …TO BAN WITCHCRAFT ACCUSATION
The Commissioner of the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ), Mr Joseph Whittal, has called on the president to assent to the Criminal Offences (Amendment) Bill, 2022, which seeks to proscribe witchcraft...
More infoWEIJA-GBAWE CHRAJ ORGANIZES HUMAN RIGHT TRAINING FOR GHANA IMMIGRATION SERVICE
The Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) of Weija-Gbawe, as part of their mandate in Article 218 (f), organized human rights training for the Ghana Immigration Service in Weija-Gbawe Command. The training programme...
More infoGHANA’S CHRAJ COMMISSIONER WINS DE SANCTIS AWARD FOR HUMAN RIGHTS
Tema-Ghana, Nov. 1 – Mr. Joseph Whittal, Commissioner of the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ), has been awarded the prestigious De Sanctis Foundation Award for the 2023 Human Rights Prize for his outstanding...
More infoREALISATION OF FREEDOMS… UNDER CONSTITUTION
On September 21, 2023 it was widely reported that protestors who had gathered around the 37 Bus station to exercise their constitutional right to demonstrate were arrested, manhandled and...
More infoUN SUPPORTS CHRAJ TO EVALUATE ANTI-CORRUPTION PLAN
Ghana has received support from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) to evaluate the National Anti-Corruption Action Plan (NACAP). The bi-partisan plan, adopted by Parliament in 2014 to help fight corruption, will be 10...
More infoCHRAJ CONDEMNS GOV’T SILENCE ON ALLEGED #OCCUPYJUBILEEHOUSE BRUTALITIES
The Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) has taken on the Interior and National Security ministries for their silence on the alleged brutality against protestors during the #OccupyJulorbiHouse protest. The...
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