With funding from the European Union (EU), the LRC is undertaking a 3-year project dubbed: Justice for Children: Bridging the Gap Between Legislation and Practice. The LRC seeks to use part of its funds from the Project to build an efficient and automated software system which would link children in conflict with the law to […]
A project aimed at providing an enabling environment for the protection of children has been launched by human rights based Non-Governmental Organization (N.G.O), Legal Resources Center in Accra. The project dubbed ‘Child Justice’ is supported by the European Union (EU) and will run for three years to help bridge the gap between legislation and practice […]
Legal Resources Centre (LRC), a nongovernmental human rights organisation, has launched the ‘Child Justice Project’ to create an enabling environment for the protection of children. The three-year project, supported by the European Union (EU), is to bridge the gap between legislation and practice within the Ghanaian Child Justice system. It is aimed at ensuring the […]
The LRC has participated in a two-week second regional offering of the Global Road Safety Leadership Course (GRSLC) in Nairobi, Kenya. The course which was attended by Enock Jengre, Project Officer of the LRC brought together 64 participants from 23 countries around the globe. The programme was officially launched on Sunday, 4th March, 2018 by […]
The LRC has obtained a grant from the European Union to implement a justice for children project captioned; “Justice for Children: Bridging the Gap between Legislation and Practice”. The aim of this Justice for Children Project is to facilitate access of children in the justice for children delivery system. This is expected to guarantee the […]
We wish to inform our partners and the general public that our offices will be closed from Thursday, 21st December 2017 for the Christmas holidays, and resume on Monday 8th January 2018. We are expectant that next year would be much more fruitful and brighter as we continue to ensure Human Rights and Human Dignity for all […]
The Legal Resources Centre (LRC), a Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) in partnership with the Centre for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana) has organised Town Hall meetings on the state of public service delivery in six Districts of the Upper East Region. The long term project, dubbed “I am Aware,” implemented by CDD – Ghana seeks to build the […]
As part of LRC’s efforts to ensure human dignity for all and Amnesty International’s goal to abolish death penalty, the Amnesty International’s Relief programme has awarded a grant to the LRC to implement a project captioned; “Abolish the Death Penalty in Ghana now!” This project seeks to influence the campaign for the abolition of death […]
LRC participated in the just ended 2017 Annual Meeting of the Public Interest Lawyering Initiative for West Africa(PILIWA) held in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire from September 21st to 24th 2017. The conference organized by the Public Interest Lawyering Initiative for West Africa (a collaboration between Advocates for Community Alternatives, Green Advocates International, and the Center for […]
Ghana’s human rights record was last reviewed by the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) in October 2012. The outcome document of the review, that is, the Working Group (WG) report, was adopted by the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) in April, 2013. Ghana received 152 recommendations from 63 states out of which she accepted 123 […]