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Results for "African Court of Human and People's Rights"
10522 results.
Courts
ECOWAS Case: Lecturer says Ex-Chief Justice Torkonoo unlikely to regain office
Speaking on JoyNews, law lecturer Prof Kwadwo Appiagyei-Atua said the most probable outcome of the case is an award of compensation, rather than a reversal of the events that led to her removal earlier this year.
DL News
General
Western Region: CHRAJ says it recorded zero corruption cases in 2021
Under Articles 218(a) and (e) of the 1992 Constitution, CHRAJ is mandated to both investigate and work to prevent corruption.
DL News
Africa
Poor Kenyans likely to end up on death row - Study
Kenya's death penalty disproportionately affects people from low-income households, many of whom lack proper legal representation.
DW
Courts
Commercial sex worker remanded over human trafficking
Miriam Braim pleaded not guilty to attempted human trafficking and human trafficking. She will make her next appearance in court on November 29, 2022.
GNA
Africa
How Nigeria succeeded in clipping Twitter’s wings
Twitter has agreed to a raft of conditions to end a seven-month ban in Nigeria, in what feels like a big win for President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration in its efforts to regulate the internet, some analysts say.
BBC
General
FULL TEXT: Attorney-General's speech at the 40th International Symposium on Economic Crime
One piece of legislation that is directly intended to prevent economically motivated crimes and the abuse of office is the PUBLIC PROCUREMENT ACT of 2003 (Act 663).
Godfred Yeboah Dame, Attorney General
General
30 years of Referendum 1992 : What the Lord Justices have said on constitutions
The current Constitution was approved exactly 30 years ago on April 28, 1992, through a National Referendum after about 92% approval. It was then officially adopted on January 7, 1993.
Richard Osei Boateng
Africa
Copyright protection in the digital age
Year 2020 forced changes in the way we do things in the world, caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, which is still on rampage. Several countries went into series of lockdowns and ordered its citizens to stay at home.
DL News
Opinion
Access Versus Standards: The Future of Legal Education in Ghana
The article examines Ghana’s 2026 legal education reforms, arguing that widening access to professional legal training must be matched with strong regulation, transparent bar examinations, adequate teaching capacity, and sustained professio...
Justice Kweku T. Ackaah-Boafo
General
Ghanaian lawyer wins 2022 IBA Outstanding Young Lawyer Award
Currently a lecturer at the UPSA Law School, Yorm becomes the first female Ghanaian and second African lawyer to have won this award.
DL News
General
Our memorandum is not to legalise same-sex marriage-Akoto Ampaw
Mr Ampaw and 17 others, including Professor Emeritus Takyiwa Manu, Professor Kwame Karikari, Professor Audrey Gadzekpo, Dr. Kojo Asante, had submitted a memorandum to Parliament describing the anti-LGBTQI Bill laid before Parliament as “ins...
GNA
US
Judges must uphold law, not personal faith, in LGBTQ+ cases-Justice Sir Dennis Adjei
Speaking during his vetting before Parliament’s Appointments Committee on Monday, the Court of Appeal judge, who also serves on the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights, emphasized that a judge’s religious affiliation should never int...
DL News
Courts
Court remands Nigerian woman over human trafficking
Aminu faces three charges — conspiracy to commit crime, to wit human trafficking, and two counts of human trafficking.
DL News
Africa
South Africa: Lawyer in Israel genocide case receives hero's welcome at airport
The slightly startled Ngcukaitobi was greeted by hundreds of people who had gathered, waiting for members of South Africa's legal team.
Ground Up
Crime
63 prison graduates unable to do national service over inability to acquire Ghana card
The revelation was made during a visit by Parliament’s Committee on Human Rights to the prison on Monday, where one of the 63 affected inmates, incarcerated for 13 years, appealed to the committee for urgent intervention.
DL News
Africa
South Africa: Wealthy Gupta brothers arrested in UAE
Ajay, Atul and Rajesh Gupta moved to South Africa from the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh in 1993, just as white-minority rule was ending.
BBC
Opinion
Justice Beyond The Courtroom: Law, Dialogue, and Values in Building A Peaceful and Stable Democratic Society in Ghana
This lecture argues that justice in Ghana must extend beyond courts into homes, schools, communities, and public institutions, where dialogue, fairness, and accountability are first learned and practised. It contends that a peaceful and sta...
Justice Paul Baffoe-Bonnie
General
Betty Mould-Iddrisu faults parliament for decades-long delay of Spousal Property Rights bill
Madam Mould-Iddrisu was instrumental in the introduction of the Property Rights of Spouses Bill in Parliament in 2010 during her tenure as Attorney-General.
DL News
General
Fighting Terrorism with Terrorism? Israel, Hamas, Hezbollah: An International Law Perspective
The Palestinian Islamist group Hamas seeks an end to Israeli control over the West Bank, a territory widely acknowledged as part of the Palestinian territories. However, the United States and Europe, have classified Hamas as a terrorist org...
Akyena Brantuo Benjamin