Legal Resources Centre

. INTRODUCTION

The Legal Resources Centre (LRC) is a non-governmental, not-for-profit human rights organisation formed in 1997 by a group of Ghanaian lawyers and law students. It was incorporated as a company limited by guarantee under the laws of Ghana in February 1998. The underlying philosophy of the LRC is that democracy would only thrive in an environment in which the majority of the people:

Know and understand their basic human rights;
Have quick and effective access to justice and entitlements; and
Understand and play their role in the functioning of the constitutional democratic structures.

Based on this the LRC is engaged in a number of activities including public/civic human rights education; legal aid and alternative dispute resolution (ADR); grassroots participatory democracy activities; parliamentary advocacy; and an international human rights and lawyering internship programme. The prisons project falls under the legal aid programme.

Location: Maamobi-America house on the
main Nima Maamobi highway near Macbonalds restaurant.