As part of its contribution towards ensuring free, fair and peaceful general election in November, the Legal Resources Centre (LRC) in partnership with Law and Development Associates (LADA) Institute has launched the Star-Ghana II project. The project dubbed: “Consolidating The Electoral Justice System in Ghana,” aims at ensuring the legality of the electoral process, safeguard […]
As part of its efforts in promoting electoral justice, to safeguard both the legality of the electoral process and the political rights of citizens, LRC has been awarded a grant by STAR-Ghana with funding from UKaid, DANIDA and EU to implement a project captioned “Consolidating the Electoral Justice System in Ghana” (CEJS). […]
To commemorate its 2016 Citizenship Week Celebration, the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE) embarked on a mission to educate the children of Ghana onthe qualities of a good citizenry by organizing teaching seminars at basic schools for Pupils. During the weeklong celebration, NCCE collaborated with several civil society leaders in order to distill the […]
As the legal advisor for Network Association of Persons Living with HIV/AIDS in Ghana (NAP+ Ghana), the Executive Director of the Legal Resources Centre (LRC), Ms. Daphne Lariba Nabila facilitated an inaugural ceremony for the advisory board of NAP+ Ghana. NAP+ Ghana is a network of member associations representing persons living with HIV/AIDS in Ghana. […]
May 5th 2016 marks the 5th Anniversary of the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (OP-ICESCR). The opening for signatures for the OP-ICESCR was held on 24 September 2009 during the 2009 Treaty Event at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. The OP-ICESCR is an international treaty that allows victims of […]
LRC was part of a select number of CSOs invited on Thursday 7th April 2016 by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) to attend a meeting held by a mission of the UN to discuss issues bordering on Human Rights in Ghana. Varied Human Rights issues were discussed. Daniel Atchebro, who serves as a focal […]
On Wednesday, the 6th of April, Amnesty International Ghana (AI) held an official launching ceremony of its 2015 Death Sentences and Executions Report, to which Ms. Daphne Lariba Nabila, the Executive Director of the LRC was the chair. In a speech delivered at the event, Mr. Lawrence Amesu, Director of Amnesty International Ghana, deplored the […]
As part of its efforts in promoting electoral justice, to safeguard both the legality of the electoral process and the political rights of citizens, the LRC has been awarded a grant by STAR-Ghana to implement a project captioned “Consolidating the Electoral Justice System in Ghana”. […]
A team of 12 students from the Harvard Law School who are members of the Harvard’s Black Law School Students Association lead by Mr. Corey Jones visited the LRC as part of their annual trip to Africa on 14th March 2016. The team reveres Ghana as one of the successful countries in Africa and thus […]
Journalists have been urged to expose electoral malpractices like vote buying by politicians and errors of omission by people in authority in their pursuit to cling to power. […]