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 22 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, Garden, cleaning, washing and any other household chores assigned. Annual Payment : 3,600 (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 10 th of May, 2017. Priority will be given to someone with a driver’s license and references will be crossed checked.                                                                           

3 April 2017 Photo Credit: Nicholas Feustel Dear Partners and Allies, The Board of the Global Network of People Living with HIV (GNP+) is pleased to welcome  Dr. Laurel Sprague  as our new Executive Director.  Dr. Sprague is a passionate social justice activist and a widely respected educator and researcher who has extensively championed the human rights and needs of key populations and people living with HIV.  In addition, Dr. Sprague is a long time organizational ally. She has served as the regional coordinator for GNP+NA, the North American Affiliate of GNP+, and as a GNP+ Board Member, and has provided technical support to PLHIV networks worldwide on the People Living with HIV Stigma Index research and analysis for nearly a decade. As a person living with HIV, Dr. Sprague has been firmly rooted in the struggle for HIV, human rights and social justice since her own diagnosis in 1991. Her expertise is in enabling legal environments and human rights approaches to health.

Recruitment! Recruitment!! Recruitment!!! ALCO recruitment CEPEHRG is a civil society organization that has, since its inception been implementing HIV and STI programs targeting key populations with support from several donors, including Abidjan –Lagos Corridor Organization (ALCO). Currently, CEPEHRG is implementing an ALCO project and it is in this vain that CEPEHRG wishes to recruit qualified and resourceful individuals to fill the positions of Project Assistant, Monitoring & Evaluation Officer and Account Officer . PROJECT ASSISTANT (ELUBO) The individual will be responsible for designing, guiding and directing the day-to-day project activities as well as providing both administrative and technical support on the field. SPECIFIC TASK ·          Plan, organize and run the activities in the intervention sites. ·          Supervise, monitor and report on activities of peer educators on the field. ·          Organize meetings with peer educators to asses

Recruitment! Recruitment!! Recruitment!!! ALCO recruitment CEPEHRG is a civil society organization that has, since its inception been implementing HIV and STI programs targeting key populations with support from several donors, including Abidjan –Lagos Corridor Organization (ALCO). Currently, CEPEHRG is implementing an ALCO project and it is in this vain that CEPEHRG wishes to recruit qualified and resourceful individuals to fill the positions of Project Assistant, Monitoring & Evaluation Officer and Account Officer . PROJECT ASSISTANT (ELUBO) The individual will be responsible for designing, guiding and directing the day-to-day project activities as well as providing both administrative and technical support on the field. SPECIFIC TASK ·          Plan, organize and run the activities in the intervention sites. ·          Supervise, monitor and report on activities of peer educators on the field. ·          Organize meetings with peer educators to ass

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,