The paper tries to showcase CHRAJ as at 2023 and highlights some key achievements of the Commission from its inception. It takes its readers down memory lane from the establishment of the Commission, discusses the rationale behind the three mandates of the Commission and the practical implementation of the mandates through its interface with society over its thirty years of existence. It also offers a brief on the formative years of the Commission and some gist on initial cases handled as an Investigative Body. The paper concludes with some tit-bits on the way forward.
If there is one personality who has created a high sense of human rights in Ghanaian society it is Justice Emile Francis Short, the man who was appointed in 1993, to establish and head the Commission for Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ).
A BOOK that recounts the life of a former Commissioner of the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ), Justice Emile Francis Short, was on Thursday launched in Accra.
Mr Justice F. Short, former commissioner for the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ), has called for the curtailment of the excessive appointment powers of Presidents under the 1992 Constitution to enhance good governance and democratic accountability. He said the unrestrained appointment powers and influence granted to Presidents…