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The Ark Foundation is an NGO that seeks to address women’s human rights in Ghana. Dwamena-Aboagye established the first shelter for battered women in Ghana and also set up a crisis centre, with a legal centre and a counselling centre to render sexual and gender based violence and child abuse services in different locations in Ghana, she is ...
In line with his passion as a human rights advocate, he set up Human Rights Reporters Ghana. This is a non-governmental organization which seeks to end human rights abuse against women and children both within and out of Ghana. He has worked with the United Nations Information Centre, the United Nations Population Fund, and others.
He has been professor of general jurisprudence and dean of the University of Ghana School of Law from 2019 to 2024, where he has been a faculty member since 2002. [1] [2] He served as a Visiting Professor of Law and the Henry J. Steiner Visiting Professor of Human Rights at Harvard Law School from 2018 to 2019.
Ampofo started teaching at the University of Ghana (UG) in 1989. [4] During 1994 and 1995, Ampofo was a Junior Fulbright Scholar. [4] In 2005, became the first Head of the Centre for Gender Studies and Advocacy (CEGENSA) at UG, which she held until 2009. [3] Around 2008, she became an editor for Ghana Studies, working on that journal until 2013 ...
She received a Bachelor of Law from the University of Ghana, Legon, and a Masters in Law, Human Rights and Democratization in Africa from the University of Pretoria, South Africa. [ 8 ] She has held the positions of executive director of the Human Rights Advocacy Centre as well as the Regional Coordinator (Africa Office) for the Commonwealth ...
The Gender Studies and Human Rights Documentation Centre (Gender Centre) is a non-profit, non-governmental organization that strives to address the issues of gender inequality in Ghana. Based in Accra , Ghana, the Gender Centre has conducted studies on issues ranging from sexual and psychological violence against school girls to the ways in ...
Pascale Allotey is a Ghanaian public health researcher and the Director of the World Health Organization SRH/HRP.Her research focuses on addressing equity, human rights, and social justice as these relate to health and disease, health systems, and global health research.
In the preamble of the constitution , it reads “In the name of the Almighty God, We the people of Ghana in the exercise of our inalienable rights….“ This is also evident in the Ghana population Census report, Christianity accounts for 68.8% of the population, followed by Islam (15.9%) and traditional religion (8.5%).