Search results for "African Court of Human and People's Rights"

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General
‘End product of legal education shouldn’t be limited to the courtroom’ – Tsatsu Tsikata
He said people can go through legal education and also serve in other professions.
DL News5 July 2021
Africa
UN condemns child marriage in Zimbabwe as girl dies after giving birth
The apostolic churches, which shun hospitals, attract millions of followers with their promises to heal illnesses and deliver people from poverty.
DL News10 August 2021
Courts
Rastafarian student’s injunction against Achimota school dismissed
The Human Rights Division of the Accra High Court presided over by Justice Gifty Agyei Addo has dismissed an ex-parte injunction application from one of the Rastafarian students who was denied admission by the Achimota Senior High School.
DL News12 April 2021
General
Human Resource: Knowing just law as a Lawyer is zero skill - Legal Practitioner
Also, she indicated that technology enhances globalization thus law, which is a knowledge-driven profession should take advantage while noticing the risks associated relative to the Panama papers.
DENNISLAW NEWS2 December 2021
General
Amend law to empower Spatial Planning Authority – Dr. Kwaku Afriyie advocates
“I believe that this Ramsar site, which may even superintend several administrative domain boundaries, must be ceded to the authority under the law
DL News16 August 2021
General
Hon. Sosu appointed Executive Member of African Bar Association
Also a lawyer, Mr. Sosu has been specifically appointed to the position of Vice-Chairman of the Trade, Investment, and Business Immigration Committee of the association.
DL News25 February 2022
Africa
ECOWAS condemns US invasion of Venezuela
In a statement from its Abuja headquarters on Sunday, the Economic Community of West African States said it was “deeply concerned” by the operation, which saw US forces enter Caracas and detain Mr Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores.
DL News5 January 2026
General
Forced labour: Stakeholders call for stiffer sanctions, media focus
At a roundtable discussion held at an IJM-organised seminar on forced labour in Accra, calls were made by the various speakers for the sanction(fine) for convicted offenders to be heightened and a custodial sentence added
DL News15 December 2022
Africa
Outrage as Nigerian university insists on brassiere before exams
The viral footage captures moments where female staff members are seen touching the chests of students lining up outside an exam hall at the institution, located in Ogun State.
DL News19 June 2025
General
Hearings on anti-LGBTQI+ bill to be made public
The bill known as the Promotion of Proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values Bill, 2021 has generated debates all over the country and beyond. Initiated by eight members of Parliament, it seeks to criminalize LGBTQI+ activities...
DENNISLAW NEWS26 October 2021
General
Ban dog, cat meat-NGO petitions Government
The World Health Organisations has confirmed that these global live animal markets must be closed as they are at the root of COVID-19 and are also a breeding ground for the spread of other fatal diseases.
DL News6 December 2021
Crime
63% of inmates of Kumasi Central Prison are petty offenders - Authorities
Officer in charge of Reception and Criminal records at the Kumasi Central Prison, Francis Awako, who shared the statistics at a stakeholders roundtable indicated that the data was worrying since it rehashed the issue of prison congestion.
DL News13 May 2022
Europe
Russia jails Nobel Peace Prize winner for 'repeatedly criticising armed forces'
Oleg Orlov says a court process in Moscow combined "absurdity and tyranny dressed up as formal adherence to some pseudo-legal procedures".
Sky News28 February 2024
Courts
SML contract saga: 2 suspects sue OSP over photographs
The applicants argue that the OSP unlawfully photographed them while they were holding placards displaying their names.
DL News22 October 2025
General
Strain and stressors are the major cause of robbery patterns – Criminologist
“When people are exposed to a lot of strain and stressors, it creates a lot of frustration, and there is always what we call a relationship between frustration and our aggression.
JoyNews21 October 2021
Africa
Nigerian lady sacked by Johnson & Johnson over “african time” wins at UK tribunal
The tribunal in Reading ruled that Fayokun was unfairly “racially profiled” and will be compensated.
The Nigeria Lawyer22 January 2024
General
Resolution of cross-border boundary dispute: Ghana ratifies ‘Niamey Convention’
Ghana is among the nine out of fifty-five (55) AU Member states that have ratified the Convention on Cross-border Co-operation known as the ‘Niamey Convention.”
DL News8 June 2023
General
Constitutional review: reckless to place an amendment option under current government – Srem-Sai
What aspects of it should we change to improve it.
DL News11 November 2021
General
There is no evidential support for Anti-LGBT bill – Prof. Emerita Takyiwaa Manuh
“And what is proposed in the bill will make the situation worse. Because it will drive people underground as has been shown in various places
DL News18 October 2021
US
Former Google Engineer Opens Up: About Her Sexual Harrasment Ordeals At Google
I used to be a Google engineer. That often feels like the defining fact about my life. When I joined the company after college in 2015, it was at the start of a multiyear reign atop Forbes’s list of best workplaces.
DL News21 April 2021