The Legal Resources Centre has offered a one-day training workshop for some selected 15 persons who were trained as paralegals in the Western Region. The persons were selected from four Districts in the Region and they were; Mpohor, Enchi, Sekondi-Takoradi and Shama. The training is part of the ongoing 3-year project by the Legal Resources […]
A Private Legal Practitioner, Lawyer Clarke Noyoru has admonished members of the Western Region Paralegals to ensure ethics and legal framework of the work are maintained so that the rights of Children would be protected and enhanced. He gave the advise at a day’s workshop in Takoradi to train some 15 selected persons as paralegals […]
The Legal Resource Centre (LRC) has recruited and trained fifteen individuals in the Central Region as Paralegals on innovative and improved methods of handling out of court settlement. A Paralegal is a community-based contact trained to give basic legal advice to communities with limited access to legal services. The training was held in the context […]
United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS ), the Office of the Minister of State in Charge of Public Procurement, Ghana and the Legal Resources Centre (LRC) will be hosting a forum dubbed “UP Forum Ghana”. The Forum which will be free to participants is aimed at building the capacities of 150 Micro, Small and […]
Mr Clarke Noyoru, a legal practitioner has called for the return to the traditional system of child protection where the whole society protect the child and guide children to adulthood. He explained, that system had the high capacity to help reduce child delinquency and waywardness in society. Mr Noyoru made the call at the opening […]
Paralegals in the Volta region have undergone a day’s training on how to use Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) mechanisms in handling cases involving children. The training, which was organised by the Legal Resource Centre (LRC) with support from the European Union (EU) was to enhance the capacity of participants on child justice system in promoting […]
Senior Management Officials and Employers at the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA) are undergoing a two-day training in human rights in business to help reduce abuses at the work place. The short course is part of activities under the “Promoting Human Rights Awareness in Business” project being implemented by Legal Resources Centre […]
The Legal Resources Centre (LRC) has trained twenty three paralegals in Bolgatanga in the Upper East to assist state institutions such as the police, social welfare and Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice to work on cases of children who come into conflict with the law. The Legal Resources Centre with support from European […]
The Legal Resources Centre (LRC) has unveiled a three-year project seeking to redefine the Ghanaian child protection system which it describes as “out-dated” and “modelled along European” cultures rather than home-grown traditions. The current system has become “ineffective and not suited to the needs of citizens,” LRC officials said, and called for legal and policy […]
The Legal Resources Centre (LRC) has trained some selected persons as paralegals in four Districts of the Upper East Region to assist in alternative dispute resolution involving children. The initiative was part of the LRC’s goal to influence national institutions to be more transparent, accountable, human rights-oriented and consistent with the broad outlook of Ghana’s […]