Northern Regional Coordinator of the Legal Aid Commission, Lawyer Awudu Issah Mahmudu, has stressed the need for government and the National Health Insurance Authority to urgently make medical examination of victims of rape and defilement free of charge. According to him, the inability of many victims of physical assault especially rape and defilement to access […]
The government has been urged to make it mandatory for all hospitals to use the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) to treat victims of crime particularly children and women who become victims of defilement, rape and other forms of assault. Mr Issah Mahmudu, Northern Regional Director of the Legal Aid Commission, who made the call, […]
A non-governmental organization, Legal Resources Centre, is calling on government to intensify education on legal representation of children in court. Project Officer, Enock Jengre, says most cases involving children are prosecuted without any legal services for them in breach of their rights. He says though the state provides free legal services to those who cannot […]
The Legal Resources Centre (LRC), a Non-Governmental NGO has organized a day’s training programme in Sunyani for para-legals engaged in protecting the fundamental human rights of children. Captioned “Justice for Children”, the training programme was aimed at equipping the para-legals with a deeper understanding of the legal framework that enables them to effectively prevent and […]
The Project Officer at the Legal Resources Centre (LRC), Enock Jengre has called on the government to enforce the Beggars and Destitute Act 1969(NLCD 392) to halt children being used as beggars on the streets. He said, sometimes it is very worrying to see children begging on the streets. According to him, research conducted by […]
The government has been urged to take drastic action on children engaged in begging on the streets. Mr Enock Jengre, Project Officer for Legal Resources Centre (LRC) a child rights advocate, who made the call, wants those children to be moved from the streets… […]
The LRC and other Anti-Corruption Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) in Ghana on Thursday 18th July 2019 held a meeting with Her Ladyship the Chief Justice of Ghana, Justice Sophia Akuffo and other Superior Court Justices. The meeting which took place at the Conference Room of the Judicial Service Administration Block was aimed at engaging and […]
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 […]