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Out of 4,240 received submissions, the NRC selected just over 2,000 victims to testify publicly. Seventy-nine alleged perpetrators also testified. The report included an introduction to the establishment, membership, objectives, mandate, functions and powers of the NRC; an overview of the activities, methods and values of the commission; a discussion of the historical context of human rights abuses in Ghana; a summary of the role of state institutions and civil society organisations in promoting human rights and resisting human rights violations in Ghana; an overview of the commission’s key findings; and recommendations for redress, reparations and institutional reform.
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Updated in July 2011
Ghana
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Since achieving independence from the United Kingdom in 1957, Ghana has been a parliamentary democracy with periods of military and civilian rule. After 1966, Ghana underwent a series of coups that ended with Jerry Rawlings’ coup in 1981 and led to more than a decade of repressive rule. Rawlings was elected president in 1993 and again in 1996, but his regime left a legacy of human rights abuses.
In 2001, newly elected President John Agyekum Kufour mandated the National Reconciliation Commission to establish a record of the human rights abuses committed between independence and 1993. (Read more about the commission.)