Human Rights

Transparency in words, Secrecy in practice: How MDAs are betraying Gov’t’s transparency pledge

After losing his arm underground, miner battles employer over prosthetic replacement

Lured by opportunity, enslaved by debt: Ghana’s human trafficking crisis

Police accused of abusing a 38-year-old man over a Tik Tok video about Special Ice Water

Parliament passes anti-LGBTQ+ bill

When reporting becomes a risk: The growing digital war on journalists in Ghana

Ghanaian journalists alarmed by growing legal threats

Former government appointees under investigation, prosecution did not comply with asset declaration law

CHRAJ sleeps on Songor Salt human rights abuses petition as victims cry for justice

“It’s deadly”: Violence and intimidation deter reporting on illegal mining

Death in Detention 2: Torture and Unexplained Deaths in Ghana Police Cells

Death in Detention: Suspected Killings in Ghana’s Police Custody [Part One]

Shot on duty: A Ghanaian journalist’s five-year struggle for recovery

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No trace of World Bank-funded boreholes in three Yendi communities

Ten communities in Yendi in the Northern Region were selected in 2022 to receive mechanised boreholes under a World Bank-funded project.Project records indicate that boreholes were drilled in all ten communities. But an investigation by The Fourth Estate found no evidence of the facilities in three of them, although official documents list the work as completed.William Jalulah and Joojo Cobbinah, who travelled to Yendi to investigate, report that without access to the promised boreholes, residents have little choice but to draw water from a dam also used by cattle and other animals.