Mar 05 2025
PASS CONDUCT OF PUBLIC OFFICERS BILL TO FIGHT CORRUPTION — CHRAJ
The Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) has called for the passage of the Conduct of Public Officers Bill and the Criminal Offences (Amendment) Bill 2021, to help […]
Mar 05 2025
CHRAJ CONDEMNS GOV’T SILENCE ON ALLEGED #OCCUPYJUBILEEHOUSE BRUTALITIES
The Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) has taken on the Interior and National Security ministries for their silence on the alleged brutality against protestors during the #OccupyJulorbiHouse […]
Mar 05 2025
UN SUPPORTS CHRAJ TO EVALUATE ANTI-CORRUPTION PLAN
Ghana has received support from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) to evaluate the National Anti-Corruption Action Plan (NACAP). The bi-partisan plan, adopted by Parliament in 2014 […]
Mar 05 2025
REALISATION OF FREEDOMS… UNDER CONSTITUTION
On September 21, 2023 it was widely reported that protestors who had gathered around the 37 Bus station to exercise their constitutional right to demonstrate were arrested, manhandled and subsequently […]
Mar 05 2025
GHANA’S CHRAJ COMMISSIONER WINS DE SANCTIS AWARD FOR HUMAN RIGHTS
Tema-Ghana, Nov. 1 – Mr. Joseph Whittal, Commissioner of the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ), has been awarded the prestigious De Sanctis Foundation Award for the 2023 Human Rights […]
Mar 05 2025
WEIJA-GBAWE CHRAJ ORGANIZES HUMAN RIGHT TRAINING FOR GHANA IMMIGRATION SERVICE February 20, 2024
The Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) of Weija-Gbawe, as part of their mandate in Article 218 (f), organized human rights training for the Ghana Immigration Service in […]
Mar 05 2025
CHRAJ WANTS CRIMINAL OFFENCES (AMENDMENT) BILL 2022 ASSENTED TO …TO BAN WITCHCRAFT ACCUSATION
The Commissioner of the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ), Mr Joseph Whittal, has called on the president to assent to the Criminal Offences (Amendment) Bill, 2022, which seeks […]
Mar 05 2025
AKUFO-ADDO URGED TO DO THE NEEDFUL AND ASSENT TO ANTI-WITCHCRAFT BILL
Commissioner of the Commission of Human Rights and Administrative Justice, Justice Joseph Akanjolenur Whittal, has called on President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to do the needful and assent to the […]
Mar 05 2025
AFRICAN COURT AND NETWORK OF AFRICAN HUMAN RIGHTS INSTITUTIONS SIGN MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING FOR STRONGER RELATIONS
Arusha, 03 June 2024: The African Court on Human & Peoples’ Rights (AfCHPR) and the Network of African Human Rights Institutions (NANHRI) on Monday 3 June 2024, signed a Memorandum of […]
Mar 05 2025
RICHARD ACKOM QUAYSON: CELEBRATING A MAN OF PROFESSIONALISM, ETHICS, INTEGRITY July 1, 2024
The governance, transparency and accountability fraternity has lost a colossus in the late Mr Richard Ackom Quayson, who was a Deputy Commissioner of the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative […]