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Impunity against Ghanaian Journalists Must End Now – GJA

The Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) has called for an end to the impunity against Ghanaian journalists. A statement...

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UN Expert On Extreme Poverty In Ghana On Fact-Finding Mission

The United Nations Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, Professor Philip Alston, is in the country...

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Human Rights Watch Steps Up Campaign To Legalise Homosexuality In Ghana

The president and other state institutions are being pressured by international NGO, Human Rights Watch, to take...

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Sosu Sues General Legal Council After Serious Abuse, Threat

Renowned Ghanaian human rights lawyer Francis-Xavier Sosu, has filed a writ seeking to enforce his fundamental rights...

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Human Rights Issues Not Absolute In Ghana – Lawyer Asserts

Fundamental human rights in Ghana and Africa, especially those bothering on homosexuality are not absolute, human...

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George Clooney ‘to Sue’ French Magazine For Twins’ Photos

George Clooney is threatening to sue a French magazine for publishing photos of his twins. The actor said in a...

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Germany’s Ambivalence Over Refugees Hit Big Screens

The biggest grossing German movie last year was a fizzy feel-good summer comedy about the country's refugee influx,...

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Corruption In Africa: A Crime Against Development

Africans have few means to protect themselves against human rights abuses, many of which are perpetrated by their own...

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Boat Refugees To Leave PNG Despite US Uncertainty

Hundreds of refugees being held at a remote Papua New Guinea detention camp will be moved by October despite...

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India’s Top Court Considers Whether Privacy Is A Right

India's Supreme Court began hearing submissions Wednesday to determine whether Indians have a constitutional right to...

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US Opposes Seat For DRCongo At UN Rights Council

The United States on Wednesday berated African countries for backing a bid by the Democratic Republic of Congo to win a...

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Afghan Charged Over Smuggling Asylum-Seekers To Australia

An Afghan man who reportedly made millions of dollars smuggling asylum-seekers to Australia by boat has been extradited...

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Ghana Fails To Attain ‘minimum Standards’ Against Trafficking – US Report

Ghana has failed to meet the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking in persons but has escaped a...

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Personal Details of Nearly 200 Million US Citizens Exposed

Sensitive personal details relating to almost 200 million US citizens have been accidentally exposed by a marketing...

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UN Rights Chief Demands International DR Congo Probe

The UN human rights chief on Friday slammed Kinshasa for not seriously investigating spiralling violence in the...

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God’s Is Punishing Lawyer Sosu For Cheating Me

Francis Agyare ,the client of Human Rights Lawyer, Francis Xavier Sosu who reported him to the General Legal Council...

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George and Amal Clooney Welcome Twins

Amal Clooney has given birth to twins – a girl named Ella and a boy named Alexander. They were born in London on...

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Get Abusive Regimes Off UN Rights Council

US envoy Nikki Haley on Tuesday urged the United Nations Human Rights Council to throw out abusive regimes and end what...

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UN Rights Council No Place For Abusive Regimes

US envoy Nikki Haley on Tuesday urged the United Nations Human Rights Council to throw out abusive regimes and end its...