The Human Rights Reporters Ghana (HRRG), a vibrant Ghanaian advocacy group with a global reach has charged government to do everything humanly possible to help address the escalating human rights violations the most Ghanaians are confronted with.

HRRG in a press statement to commemorate this year’s World Human Rights Day which falls on today December 10, 2022 signed by its Executive Director, Joseph Wemakor equally appealed to government to help put proper measures in place to restore back to life the dire economic situation Ghanaians are recently battling.

“On this special day which marks the International Human Rights Day 2022, we are calling on government of Ghana to put proper measures in place to help restore the economy back to its normal state so that the ordinary Ghanaian will live a meaningful and a well sustained life”, the statement partly reads.

Ghana’s situation is a worrying one as far as the issue of human rights violations are concerned. Recently this has been exacerbated by a worsening economic challenging which every Ghanaian is battling.

Government has come to a wits end in its efforts to apply the right measures to bring sanity back to the economy. According to some critics, the insensitivity on part of government in heeding advice could be blame for the cause of the country’s woes which is even more biting. Inflation is on the rise; currently Ghana’s inflation is pegged around 40.2% the highest in decades, prices of goods and services have skyrocketed including transport fares which have risen astronomically.

Against all odds, the Human Rights holds the view that this unfortunate development is a contributory factor to numerous violations of human rights which the country folks have to battle with.

The vibrant human rights group is equally calling on the Ghana Education Service (GES) and the Ghana Police Service to intervene and arrest, prosecute and punish teachers who unlawfully cane students and inflict cane wounds on them to ensure justice for victims of abuse and brute canning in schools.

Human Rights Day is observed every year on 10 December, the Day the United Nations General Assembly adopted, in 1948, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), a milestone document which proclaims the inalienable rights that everyone is entitled to as a human being.

Read the full statement below:

Human Rights Reporters

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