• Ghana: People With Mental Disabilities Face Serious Abuse
    Oct 2, 2012
    People with mental disabilities suffer severe abuses in psychiatric institutions and spiritual healing centers in Ghana, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. The Ghanaian government has done little to combat such abuse or to ensure that these people can live in the community, as is their right under international law.
  • Ghana: Disability Rights Convention Ratified
    Aug 22, 2012
    Ghana’s ratification on August XX, 2012, of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities affirmed its commitment to respect the human rights of all its citizens, including those with disabilities, Human Rights Watch said today.
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  • Ghana Grapples with Mental Health
    Oct 8, 2012
    When we met Elijah early this year in Ghana, he was chained to a tree at a “prayer camp.” Five months earlier, his family had him bound with rope and forcibly taken to the camp for “treatment.” Elijah told me that he had been chained to the tree ever since – the “healing” prescribed for the restlessness and insomnia that his parents and the camp’s spiritual leaders had decided was a mental disability.
  • Ghana: People With Mental Disabilities Face Serious Abuse
    Oct 2, 2012
    People with mental disabilities suffer severe abuses in psychiatric institutions and spiritual healing centers in Ghana, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. The Ghanaian government has done little to combat such abuse or to ensure that these people can live in the community, as is their right under international law.
  • Human Rights of Women and Children with Disabilities
    Sep 11, 2012
  • Ghana: Disability Rights Convention Ratified
    Aug 22, 2012
    Ghana’s ratification on August XX, 2012, of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities affirmed its commitment to respect the human rights of all its citizens, including those with disabilities, Human Rights Watch said today.
  • African Civil Society Urges African States Parties to the Rome Statute to Reaffirm Their Commitment to the ICC
    Jul 30, 2009
    Recognizing our obligation to help protect human rights and uphold the rule of law, we, the undersigned civil society organizations, appeal to African ICC States Parties to reaffirm their support for the ICC and their commitment to abide by their obligations under the Rome Statute, particularly in relation to the arrest and transfer of the President of Sudan to the ICC.
  • Ghana: Obama Visit Should Highlight Rights
    Jul 8, 2009
    United States President Barack Obama should use his visit to Ghana on July 10 and 11, 2009 to encourage its new president, John Atta Mills, to take a leadership position in Africa on issues of democracy and justice.
  • ECOWAS: Troops to Liberia Must Respect Human Rights
    Jul 18, 2003
    Human Rights Watch writes to Ghanaian President John Kufuor in his capacity of chairman of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), which is poised to send 1,000-1,500 peacekeeping troops to Liberia. ECOWAS forces should act in full accordance with international human rights and humanitarian law, and with a clear mandate to protect civilians and to facilitate the delivery of humanitarian aid.
  • President Bush's Trip to Africa
    Jul 2, 2003
    U.S. President George W. Bush will be traveling to Africa from July 7-12, visiting Senegal, South Africa, Botswana, Uganda, and Nigeria. This packet from Human Rights Watch includes material for each stop along the way.
  • West Africa: Stop Trafficking in Child Labor
    Apr 1, 2003
    West African governments are failing to address a rampant traffic in child labor that could worsen with the region’s growing AIDS crisis.
  • Letter to African States, European States, Canada, and the US on Cooperation with the Sierra Leone Special Court
    Jun 13, 2002
    Human Rights Watch writes to the foreign and justice ministers of a number of African states and those of states that played a leading role in creating the Sierra Leone Special Court, stressing the importance of cooperation with the court. In particular, it is crucial that any country to which someone indicted by the Special Court has fled return that indictee to Sierra Leone. The perpetrators of truly horrific crimes should not be permitted to escape justice by fleeing from the state where the crime occurred.