Legal Resources Centre (LRC), a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO), has trained selected journalists in Bolgatanga, Upper East Region, on climate change and renewable energy best practices. The core mission of the LRC is to develop human rights within communities it operates, works to ensure social progress and development through use of law, justice, development, and good […]
The Coalition Against the Death Penalty led by Amnesty International Ghana welcomes the news that the death penalty in Ghana has been abolished by the Parliament of Ghana through the amendment of the Criminal Offences Act during its sitting on 25th July 2023. Since 1985 Amnesty International Ghana has been campaigning for the abolition of […]
Ghana’s Parliament today abolished the death penalty for all ordinary crimes (including murder, genocide, piracy and smuggling of gold and diamonds and attempted murder in prison) by passing a private members Bill to amend the Criminal Offences (Amendment) Act, tabled by the MP for Madina, Francis Xavier-Sosu. Working alongside Ghanaian Parliamentarians and campaign groups, […]
The Legal Resources Centre (LRC) has sensitized stakeholders from both the formal and informal sectors in the Upper East Region on climate change laws and energy transition. The training, which was held in Bolgatanga, the regional capital, was aimed at equipping participants with the knowledge on the adverse impact of climate change and how […]
The Legal Resources Centre (LRC), a human rights Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) has called on citizens to shift from the use of fossil fuels for electricity generation to the use of renewable energy. The LRC said there was the need for collective advocacy by citizens, for Ghana to shift from burning fossil fuels, oil, coal […]
The increasing cost of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) is becoming a threat to Ghana’s quest to achieve zero net emissions by the year 2070. Enock Jengre, Programs Officer at the Legal Resources Centre, said the government of Ghana has made certain mechanisms for the transition of renewable energy available to all. This includes the Paris […]
Police prosecutors have been advised to equip themselves with the provisions on the new plea bargaining in the Criminal and Other Offence (Procedure) (Amendment) Act, 2022 (Act 1079). This would help them have a better understanding of the new plea bargaining law and thus enable them play their role in the administration of justice more […]
Mrs Evelyn Keelson, a Chief State Attorney, says the Attorney General’s Department is in the process of developing guidelines for the implementation of the Plea-bargaining law in the country. She said the guidelines would indicate specifically what was expected of prosecutors regarding the preparation of the Plea-bargaining agreement. Mrs Keelson was speaking at a training […]
With funding support from our partner, Clooney Foundation for Justice (CFJ), Legal Resources Centre (LRC) together with nine (9) other Civil Society Organizations (CSO) in Sub-Sahara Africa are admitting female fellows to offer a one-year, fully funded fellowships to an inaugural class of ten early-career women lawyers. The aim of CFJ’s Waging Justice is to […]
The Board, Management and Staff of the Legal Resources Centre wish to inform our partners, corporate family, clients and the general public that our offices will be closed from Monday, 19th December, 2022 for the Christmas holidays, and resume on Tuesday, 10th January, 2023. We look forward to a much more fulfilling new year of […]