CDD-Ghana Sensitizes UniMAC Students on Rights-Based Approach to Journalism
The Ghana Center for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana) engaged over 70 journalism students of the University of Media, Arts and Communication (UniMAC) in a social dialogue on human rights and a rights-based approach to journalism and reporting, on Thursday, December 11, 2025. The engagement, led by CDD-Ghana’s Human Rights and Social Inclusion Team, aimed to equip […]
Statement of the Ghana Center for Democratic Development and the Human Rights Coalition in Reaction to Passage of the Human Sexual Rights and Family Values Bill by the Parliament of Ghana
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The “Big 18”and Human Rights Coalition urge Parliament to reconsider passage of the Bill which criminalizes persons, including journalists
The Anti-LGBTQ+ Bill violates key fundamental human rights provisions in Ghana’s 1992 Constitution. In one swoop, this Bill seeks to infringe on, among others, the rights to dignity, freedom of speech, freedom of association, freedom to partake in processions, academic freedom, equality and non-discrimination. These rights and freedoms constitute the bedrock of any constitutional democracy […]
CDD-Ghana Senior Fellow receives Franco-German Prize for Human Rights and the Rule of Law
Emerita Professor Takyiwaa Manuh, a Senior Fellow at the Center, has been awarded the Franco-German Prize for Human Rights and the Rule of Law 2023. In observance of International Human Rights Day, 2023, which coincided with the 75th anniversary of the United Nations General Assembly’s adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, eleven individuals […]
CDD-Ghana Condemns the Brutal Force Used in Military Swoop at Ashaiman
The Executive branch must also be advised that failing to condemn and sanction the military officers implicated in this barbaric episode is a slippery slope toward a generalized state of lawlessness and anarchy. The government’s tacit endorsement of this incident only goes to embolden military officers to take matters into their own hands whenever they […]
International Human Rights Day, 2022
CDD-Ghana bemoans the growing neglect of state responsibilities and duties towards the protection of human rights of its citizens particularly vulnerable and the marginalized in our society after several years of adopting and ratifying so many human rights conventions and treaties including its own Constitution that mandates the state to respect and protect the fundamental […]
Professor Takyiwaa Manuh Joins CDD-Ghana as a Senior Fellow
Prof. Manuh is an Emerita Professor of African Studies at the University of Ghana. She previously served as Director at the Social Development Policy Division of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and Professor of African Studies at the University of Ghana, Legon, where she was also Director of the […]
