Young Peoples and Human Rights Ghana

Vacancy! Vacancy!! Vacancy!!! Position : House Help or Assistant Requirements : should be at least a SHS leaver and fluent in English. Should be between the ages 19 to 25 years of age and willing to live with employer. Should be willing to learn driving. Driving experience will be an advantage. No phone calls or inbox messages please. Responsibilities: Send on errands, take care of house, cleaning, washing and any other household chores assigned. Annual Payment : 3,000 to 4,600 (Probation pay) Please send application (s) to mcobbinah@aol.com and you will be invited for interview and if you meet expectations hired immediately. Deadline for application is the Friday the 4 th of October, 2016. Priority will be given to someone with a driver’s license and references will be crossed checked. 

United Nations Makes History on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity  UN human rights body establishes an Independent Expert   ( Geneva, June 30, 2016)     In a defining vote, the United Nations Human Rights Council adopted a resolution on “Protection against violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation, and gender identity”, to mandate the appointment of an Independent Expert on the subject. It is a historic victory for the human rights of all persons who are at risk of discrimination and violence because of their sexual orientation or gender identity, 28 human rights groups said today. This resolution builds upon two previous resolutions, adopted by the Council in 2011 and 2014.   The Core Group of seven Latin American countries – Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico, Uruguay – and 41 additional countries jointly presented the text.    The resolution was adopted by a vote of 23 in favor, 18 against and 6 abstentions.     “This is

Tanzania is seeing a fresh wave of homophobia since June 28, 2016, following a television interview on HIV prevention, where a trans-woman discussed health care programming for populations most at risk of HIV. The Dar Es Salaam Regional Commissioner reacted negatively, publicly referring to LGBTI people as illegal and calling for their arrest. The public call by the Regional Commissioner was also followed by the publication of pictures and names of suspected LGBTI people in a local tabloid. According to The Citizen, The Tanzania Ministry of Health subsequently called for a ban on lubricants, a safer sex commodity, as these are seen to encourage homosexuality. Since the ban on lubricants was issued, organisation providing HIV services to key populations report that some of their clients have stopped seeking health care and defaulted on their ART regimens. People suspected or perceived to be lesbian, bisexual, transgender or intersex (LGBTI) have also been subjected to police harassment,

PETITION TO HIS EXCELLENCY, JOHN DRAMANI MAHAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF GHANA   PLEASE INTERVENE AND EXPIDITE THE PASSAGE OF THE RIGHT TO INFORMATION BILL   Your Excellency, we the under listed organisations and individuals would like to urge you to engage Parliament to resume and expedite the consideration of the RTI Bill currently at the consideration stage in Parliament. Your Excellency, upon assuming power in 2012, tabled the RTI Bill before the 6 th  Parliament on November 12 th  2013 and subsequently the Bill was referred to the Select Committee on Constitutional, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs for thorough discussion and review. The Select Committee, as part of its deliberative processes, held consultations with various stakeholders including the RTI Coalition and unanimously adopted a number of critical amendments to the Bill in its report presented to Parliament in December 2014. The objective of these proposed amendments by the bipartisan Committee is to mak

Vacancy! Vacancy!! Vacancy Position : House Help or Assistant Requirements : should be at least a SHS leaver and fluent in English. Should be between the ages 19 to 25 years of age and willing to live with employer. Should be willing to learn driving. Driving experience will be an advantage. Responsibilities: Send on errands, take care of house, cleaning, washing and any other household chores assigned. Annual Payment : 3,000 to 4,600 (Probation pay) Please send application (s) to mcobbinah@aol.com and you will be invited for interview and if you meet expectations hired immediately. Deadline for application is the Friday the 19 th of August, 2016

Vacancy at Center for Popular Education Human Rights, Ghana (CEPEHRG) Project Coordinator 1. Background CEPEHRG has been awarded a two-year grant to implement the Speaking Out Project, an experiential and transformative grassroots community advocacy program developed by the MSMGF and CEPEHRG in Ghana and builds and enhances the capacity of community based organizations in 3 levels: (1) the individual level, by training in-country advocates; (2) the community organization level, both of implementation partnerships with local organizations, and participants sharing take-home messages with their home organizations and fellow advocates; and (3) at the level of CEPEHRG itself, whose own internal ability to implement and manage a program such as Speaking Out is enhanced with each activity. The program’s ultimate goals are: 1) To decrease stigma, discrimination and violence directed at gay men and other MSM; and 2) To increase access to human rights protection of gay men and ot

PRESS STATEMENT: ACCOUNTING TO THE PEOPLE: A REAL COMMITMENT OR ANOTHER POLITICAL RHETORIC His Excellency, President John Dramani Mahama began a tour to the various regions to account to the people of Ghana on how his government has performed in terms of fulfilling previous campaign promises.  The Right to Information (RTI) Coalition would like to know from His Excellency, whether the promise by his government to pass the Right to Information Bill this year formed part of the agenda in the just concluded accountability tour. Efforts by civil society organisations in Ghana to secure the passage of the Right to Information Bill have proved abortive for more than a decade. The RTI Bill is the only Bill in Parliament that has suffered from several failed promises by politicians from both sides of the political divide. Governments both past and present have made promises to put the legislation in place but have failed to do so despite their proclaimed commitment to the fight agains

Gay Men, transgender people and Sex Workers Expresses Outrage Over Unacceptably Weak Political Declaration Adopted Today at the United Nations High-Level Meeting on Ending AIDS Published: June 8, 2016 A High-Level Failure for the United Nations on Key Populations New York, NY –  The Global Network of Sex Work Projects ( NSWP) , The Global Network of Trans Women (IRGT)   and  MSMGF   (The Global Forum on MSM & HIV) together with the Global Platform to Fast-Track the HIV and Human Rights Responses Among Gay and Bisexual Men and Other Men Who Have Sex with Men ( The Platform )  deeply regrets to report that the  political declaration  adopted today at the United Nations High-Level Meeting on Ending AIDS (HLM) inexcusably fails to meaningfully address the HIV epidemic among key populations, including gay and bisexual men and other men who have sex with men, sex workers, people who use drugs, and transgender people. The final declaration’s  many failures  include repeated omiss