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J oseph Wemakor is my beautiful name and I'm so proud of it. I’m very passionate about defending, protecting and promoting human rights, religious freedom and above all peace.  My commitment level towards the above is awesome and my quest for peace is unquenchable.  Everywhere I go, I preach peace, drink peace, eat peace, smoke peace, bath peace, embrace peace, love peace and live my whole life with and in peace. Do you know what that really means to me? Well, it's by no coincidence I happened to have been recognized as a Global Peace Ambassador in unique ways, even recently got selected as a Taskforce Member (Ghana National Focal Person) to lead the African Network of Young Leaders for Peace and Sustainable Development (ANYL4SD), an affiliate of a high repute International Civil Society Organization based in Ghana.  Sounds so nice! Indeed no mean feat right?   If you care to know, I’m a staunch human rights activist/ defender without a border, a youth leader/ad...

  The Former President of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), Ambassador Martin Uhomoibhi has waded into the controversies surrounding the burgeoning issues of human rights abuses being perpetrated against the Shincheonji church and its leader, Lee Man-hee by the South Korean Government in this advent of Covid-19, described it as ‘unfortunate and unique barefaced violation of rights of freedom of worship’. Speaking at a 2-day virtual summit to deliberate and proffer solutions to the escalating issues of   human rights abuses around the world with emphasis on the South Korean situation, the former UN boss lamentably said:   “The Shincheonji Covid-19 saga is more of state and conscious barefaced violation of rights of freedom of worship of unique occurrence which ought to be widely condemned in no uncertain terms”. “He further revealed: “this is just a clear sense of selective victimization in which the Shincheonji church appears to have only come under t...

The Executive Director of Human Rights Reporters Ghana (HRRG), Joseph Wemakor has charged all and sundry to join forces and unite with in oneness with ambition backed by passion and actions to aggressively resist the avalanche of persecution and oppression being meted out to the leader of Shincheonji Church, Lee Man-hee, its believers and his peace organization (HWPL) by the South Korean Government. Mr Wemakor who gave the charge on Thursday September 10 while speaking as a member of a high-profile panel at a summit to discuss Covid-19 and human rights abuses around the world with emphasis on South Korea said: “People of the world! let us all unite and combine all our efforts and powers just like the ‘Captain Planet and the Planeteers’ did in all situations to overcome the unthinkable and we’ll descend on President Moon Jae-in to as a matter of urgency release Mr Lee from detention and set the Shincheonji believers free from the shackles of oppression and we’ll win the war agai...

  The Executive Director of Human Rights Reporters Ghana (HRRG), Joseph Wemakor has been listed among high-profile speakers who are poised to open fruitful discussions focused on human rights violations rearing ugly heads around the world with emphasis on cases in South Korea. The event dubbed: ‘Summit on South Korea: Covid-19 and Human Rights Abuses’, slated for September 10 to 11, 2020 at 2 pm  each day will convene an audience and distinguished speakers made up of human rights activists, advocates, lawyers and journalists from across the world via zoom. A statement released by the event organizers on Tuesday indicated that human rights abuses have been on the rise in the Covid-19 world. “The statistics show that in Ghana particularly, there are many recorded cases of domestic abuses in various homes and the situation is not different in other jurisdictions such as South Korea where the government is reportedly targeting minority groups in the name of fighting Covid-19...

  It is indeed heart-breaking to know that in the middle of an unprecedented pandemic where all hands are on deck in attempt to possibly stem the flow of the virus and have it defeated absolutely, we have some ill-mannered persons and groups of people engaged in all kinds of abominable activities including stigmatization, discrimination, scapegoating, targeting and even persecuting others for the cause of an outbreak and spread of the disease which amounts to wanton violation of the International human rights law.   Since the pandemic broke in the city of Wuhan, Hubei, China in December 2019, we’ve heard about worrying reports chronicling varying degrees of atrocities being perpetrated by some superior groups against some minority groups in many parts of the world which has received wide condemnation from many people including activists, journalists, CSOs, NGOs, regional and international organizations globally. Undeniably, there are indications of happenings in many ...

  A deadly pandemic hits at an alarming rate and brings untold pain and hardship upon the whole world. All of a sudden, life came to a standstill as public health and economic issues escalated, dominating the long lists of crises the deadly pandemic has given birth to. Since then, efforts are being made globally to contain the spread of the virus while help is sought for the affected. As part of a pandemic response, the World Health Organization outlined measures to contain the virus which countries in the world are to comply with. The World Bank Group and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) equally demonstrated their support to spur faster action on COVID-19 response in African countries by mobilizing their partners in the fight. Massive support trickled down under various emergency packages to affected countries including funding, resources and policy advice was meant to help prevent, detect, and respond to the coronavirus pandemic which most African countries including our bel...

Scores of high-profile young leaders across the globe who are bent on creating a better and more sustainable future for all have urged governments of all nations and world leaders to consider the rots created by the COVID-19 pandemic as an opportunity rather than a tragedy and ensure best advantage is taken care of them to accelerate the implementation of the Agenda 2030 and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). According to the passionate young leaders, the crisis brought upon the world by the emergence of COVID-19 should not be a barrier to achieving targets, but rather a catalyst to spur and consolidate every effort in order to scale-up the previous gains towards the achievement of the 2030 Agenda and the SDGs. The zealous global young leaders made their voices known at a webinar to mark a side event of the 2020 UN High-Level Political Forum (HLPF) held on Friday July 17, 2020 on the theme: “Building Back Better Through Partnership: The Youth and Civil Society Organ...