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Four journalists dressed in black stand solemnly at dusk in front of a courthouse, holding black-and-white portraits of missing colleagues. In front of them, a folding chair draped with a yellow high-visibility vest marked PRESS sits empty, surrounded by lit candles and flowers, symbolizing a vigil for journalists killed, disappeared, or detained. The mood is somber and respectful.

Africa’s low death count hides a deeper crisis: who will end impunity for crimes against journalists?

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A Ghanaian woman lawyer in a dark suit and kente scarf stands confidently outside the High Court in Accra, holding a folder labeled "CSW70 Justice Pledges Accountability Review." The Ghana flag flies behind her and scales of justice are visible on the court building.

Did Ghana keep its CSW70 justice pledges? A scorecard nearly eight months on

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School portrait of 15-year-old Javits Frimpong, a Ghanaian teenager who was fatally shot while walking to school in the Bronx, New York.

Ghana to fund mother's US trip for funeral of teenager killed in New York

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Editorial illustration of three generations of African women an elderly woman, a young woman and a young girl wearing orange-brown traditional cloth and headwraps, standing together and looking forward with strength and dignity. Broken chains lie shattered on the ground at their feet, not on their bodies. The background is parchment-textured with faint Adinkra symbols including Sankofa, outlines of African masks, drums, clay pots and old colonial maps of Africa, symbolizing heritage, memory, cultural restitution and the gendered legacy of the transatlantic slave trade. The bottom text reads "GENDER LENS AFRICA - REPARATORY JUSTICE - HERITAGE - MEMORY - RETURN - RESTORATION".

Beyond an apology: Why reparatory justice must also account for what slavery took from African women

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President of Ghana, John Dramani Mahama delivering a speech

Apology alone cannot repair slavery's legacy, Mahama tells UK as Ghana sets five priorities for talks

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Empty social welfare office desk in Ghana with referral files and small children's shoes on floor, representing children waiting for child protection services.

Ghana plans 2,400 social service recruits. But who protects children while they wait?

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A cross section of participants at the event

Ghana plans to recruit 2,400 social service workers to strengthen child protection

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A woman's hands hold a copy of the Maputo Protocol with African Union seal and Ghana flag pin

Ghana signed it in 2007. What has the Maputo Protocol delivered for women?

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A Ghanaian woman's hands hold a burgundy copy of Ghana's 1992 Constitution with scales of justice blurred in background

CSW70: Ghana already has the laws on justice for women, the test is whether women can use them

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Obuasi SHS headmaster

Obuasi SHTS Headmaster Says Rape Complainant Is Aged 20 to 21 and Has a Child

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Entrance Obuasi SHTS

MWAG pledges medical support for students affected by Obuasi SHTS sexual abuse allegations

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Mr. Nortey

NDC suspends Daniel Nortey after rape remarks as apology follows public backlash

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Manasseh Azure

Obuasi SHS Headmaster Zakaria Abdulai Sues Manasseh Azure Awuni for GH¢2m

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Obuasi SHS headmaster

Obuasi SHTS headmaster says he has been cautioned and granted bail as rape complaint awaits legal advice

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Scales of justice in focus with a blurred court building in the background, symbolizing the Obuasi Senior High Technical School alleged rape case investigation forwarded by Ghana Police to the Attorney-General's Office for legal advice.

Obuasi SHS headmaster rape case: Police send docket to Attorney-General

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Illustration of empty school corridor with old complaint notices and Ghana-ribbon backpack waiting on bench.

Obuasi SHTS: who knew, who acted, and who must answer?

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A judge's gavel

Labone SHS indecent assault trial adjourned to November 16 as cross-examination continues

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Abstract illustration showing a report with data turning into question marks before reaching a breaking justice scale over Ghana's map, with silhouette of a woman.

After survivors report gender-based violence in Ghana, the data stops where justice should begin

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AWLA Ghana calls for national sexual offenders register to protect schoolgirls

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GLA Illustration

Sexual offenders register: what it can and cannot do for Ghana

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Dr. Asomaning speaking at the launch

Women leaving Ghana's prisons need more than an open gate

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Min of Gender

Ghana trains tourism and travel stakeholders to identify human trafficking risks

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A tired Ghanaian professional mother in a blue suit and kente headwrap holds her sleeping baby and a laptop bag, standing in an office corridor between a large dusty Labour Act 651 book and a padlocked door labeled Workplace Childcare symbolizing the gap between Ghana's maternal protection laws and reality.

Ghana's working mothers betrayed behind fancy labour laws!

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Nana Oye Bampoe Addo, Deputy Chief of Staff of Ghana and former Minister for Gender, Children and Social Protection, smiling in a colorful Kente-inspired off-shoulder dress with a pink clutch.

She Is a Woman. That Does Not Make Her a Feminist.

Justice5 min read