The Right to Information law increasing accountability was adopted. The President commuted death sentences into life imprisonment, but courts continued to hand down death sentences, and prison conditions remained deplorable. Attacks against journalists were reported; one journalist was killed and...

Hundreds of migrant workers hired as security guards for last year’s World Cup are still being denied justice for the abuses they suffered despite FIFA and the hosts Qatar being warned that they were especially vulnerable to exploitation and workers raising complaints and protesting about their...

Women on death row have, in many cases, been denied justice for the prolonged physical and sexual violence and abuse they have suffered, which preceded and triggered the offences for which they were convicted for, Amnesty International said ahead of the World Day Against the Death Penalty (10...

Amnesty International today announces the name of four awardees of a bursary in honour of its late employee Gaëtan Mootoo, Researcher for West Africa, who had been with the organization for more than 30 years. This announcement is made public as the organization remembers him with great fondness on...

• 148 death row prisoners in grim conditions, including six that the Prison Service considers to be mentally ill • Less than a quarter of death row inmates have been able to appeal their cases • No progress on abolition since recommendation by Constitution Review Commission in 2011 Close to 150...

Legal loopholes in Vanuatu, Sierra Leone and Ghana make all three countries potential safe havens for fugitives suspected of war crime and crimes against humanity, and urgently need to be closed, Amnesty International said.In three reports released today as part of its No Safe Haven series, Amnesty...

Ghana’s prisons are rundown, overcrowded and in need of urgent reform with prisoners facing conditions which do not meet international standards, Amnesty International said today in a new report “Prisoners are bottom of the pile”: Human rights of inmates in Ghana.Based on research carried out by...

An Amnesty International-supported radio project in Ghana and Kenya aims to challenge public perceptions of people living in slums and give inhabitants a platform to tell their storiesWhen business graduate Al Hassan Abdallah arrived in Accra in 2005, he struggled to find a room he could afford to...

Thousands of slum dwellers including those under threat from forced eviction are taking part in a week of action across Africa supported by Amnesty International and partners. Activists in Chad, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Egypt and Zimbabwe will call on their governments to stop forced evictions and...

Governments in Africa must end the practice of forced evictions that leave hundreds of thousands homeless every year, Amnesty International said on World Habitat Day, 5 October. In most cases evictions are conducted without any due process, consultation, adequate notice or compensation. Officials...

The outgoing President of Ghana, John Kufuor, commuted all death sentences in the country. Amnesty International welcomed the action and urged the new President of Ghana, John Atta Mills, to seize the moment and take immediate steps to abolish the death penalty in law.Several influential figures in...

The African republic of Ghana swore in a new President on Wednesday. Professor John Evans Atta Mills of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) won more than 50 percent of the votes in a second round of the country’s election on 28 December.Professor Atta Mills takes power in a country that has seen...