AFRICAN WOMEN'S

HUMAN RIGHTS

 

 

Address:

H/N 49, 3rd Crescent
Asylum Down
Post Office Box 4889
Accra
Ghana, West Africa

Tel:
233(0)21-224878

Fax:
233(0)21-232296

E-mail: lawagh@hotmail.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

Promoting the human rights of women in Ghana and in Africa

Goals | Mission | Objectives | Executives | Secretariat | Affiliates

 

ABOUT US

LAWA-Ghana is a non-profit company, incorporated on May 27, 1998 under the laws of the Republic of Ghana. It was incorporated by a group of female lawyers in Ghana, who participated in a program known as the Leadership and Advocacy for Women in Africa (LAWA) program, which was initiated by the Women's Law and Public Policy Fellowship Program (WLPPFP) of Georgetown University Law Center (GULC), with sponsorship from the the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).

The LAWA program recruits, selects and trains women lawyers from Ghana, Tanzania and Uganda who are engaged in activities aimed at advancing women's human rights in their respective countries. Selected participants go to Washington D.C. in the U.S.A. for a sixteen month period of advanced legal legal study and work assignment on legal and policy issues affecting the status of women. They participate in a Master of Law degree (LL.M) program at GULC and a seminar program conducted by the WLPPFP. Following their studies, each participant is assigned to work as an intern with a legal or public interest organization in Washington D.C. where she works for six months on legal and policy issues affecting women.

GOALS

The goal of LAWA-Ghana is to use legal strategies to improve the lives of women in Ghana in particular and in Africa as a whole.

MISSION

The mission of LAWA-Ghana is to work for the reform of laws and practices that discriminate against women in Ghana and to promote and advocate for the enactment of laws that protect women's human rights.

OBJECTIVES

The objectives of LAWA-Ghana are as follows:-

  • To run legal literacy programs
  • To conduct research into human rights issues
  • To advocate and lobby for the protection of women's human rights
  • To advocate for the promotion and protection of the rights of the girl-child
  • To monitor the implementaiton of international human rights instruments by the government of Ghana
  • To conduct strategic impact litigation on human rights
  • To provide consultancy services on human rights and gender and development issues.

EXECUTIVE COUNCIL MEMBERS

The Executive Council members of LAWA-Ghana are as follows:-

  • Sheila Minkah-Premo (Chairperson)
  • Fitnat Adjetey (Secretary)
  • Angela Dwamena-Aboagye
  • Beatrice Duncun

SECRETARIAT

LAWA-Ghana has a secretariat located in Accra, Ghana with a full time Progam Manager and other part-time staff members.

AFFILIATES

LAWA-Ghana works together with two sister organisations in Africa. These are:-

  • Law and Advocacy for Women in Uganda (LAW-U)
  • LAWA Alumnae in Tanzania

LAWA-Ghana is also afiliated with the following organisations:-

 
We have received generous support from the following organizations
USAID, U.S.A. FORD FOUNDATION, W.A. UNICEF, GHANA DANIDA, GHANA
PUBLIC AFFAIRS SECTION OF THE UNITED STATES EMBASSY, GHANA