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  Name Nana Oye Lithur
Profession Barrister/Solicitor
Nationality Ghanaian
Key Experience Human Rights and Gender Advocate with extensive experience in human rights and gender training and advocacy, corporate practice, investment, commercial, banking and finance laws.
Key Qualification
College
University of Pretoria, South Africa
University of Ghana, Legon
Degree
LLM (Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa)
LLB (Hons)
Experience Record

Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative
African Youth Alliance/FIDA Adolescent Reproductive Rights Project
Law Trust Company
Akuffo Legal Consultancy
Laryea, Laryea & Co. PC

Regional Coordinator (Africa Office)
National Coordinator
Senior Associate
Legal Consultant
Associate Barrister/Solicitor
2004 - date
2002 - 2003
1996 - 2002
1994 - 1996
1991 - 1994
Gender Work African Women Lawyers Association
International Federation of Women Lawyers (FIDA-Ghana)
1999 - 2004
1995 - 2004
Publications

The Daily Graphic

    • Reproductive rights of Women in Ghana , legal and Policy issues
    • The making of the Optional Protocol to the CEDAW Convention
    • Celebration 2000: A review of the Intestate Succession Law
    • Paralegal training in Ghana , prospects and successes
    • Breaking the Glass ceiling? Examining Women’s participation in the electoral Process in Ghana .
    • The Laws regulating marriage in Ghana

High Street Journal

    • Empowering Women for the Global Economy
    • Using CEDAW as a tool to Enforce Women’s Rights in Ghana
    • The Role of the African Women in preserving the African Cultural Heritage
    • Review Beijing +5, From Dakar to Addis Ababa to Beijing to where?
    • Violence against Women and harmful traditional practises, the role of the Queen mother
    • Are Gender equality and social justice achievable within capitalism?
    • The “F” Word, Building Feminists leadership amongst our youth
    • In Defence of Gender budgeting
    • Activities and services of the civil society in civic education, a case study of FIDA
    • Engendering the Peace Process in Africa

The Dispatch newspaper

  • Strategies to combat Violence against women

    The Guardian

    • Women’s participation in the Parliamentary Process: a comparative analysis of Ghana and South Africa Parliament

    Africa Reproductive Health Journal

    • Destigmatising abortion: expanding community awareness of abortion as a reproductive health issue in Ghana

    Websites

    • BBC-Africa Live Website

    ‘If women were to rule the world’, examining women’s role in government in Africa

    African Women Lawyers training manuals

    • Good governance-mainstreaming gender issues into the legislative process Training manual for Parliamentarians
    • Operating within the law, The laws and Policy on abortion in Ghana
    • Alternate report on violence against Women for Beijing +5 Conference

    International Federation of Women Lawyers FIDA

    • Co-Author: FIDA/African Youth Alliance Advocacy Training Manual A dolescent Reproductive Rights in Ghana
    • Co-Author: A Strategic Framework for Adolescent Reproductive Health Simplified handbook on the rights of the Child in Ghana

    African Legal AID Quarterly July – September 2003

      • Gender based violence and the health sector
      • Assessing Prevalence and effective intervention to address Gender based Violence in Ghana

    FIDA Publications

    • National report on Women Participation in politics in Ghana
    • Simplified Handbook on adolescent Reproductive Rights in Ghana

    Research Reports

    • WHO Report: Department of Injuries and Violence Prevention: Strengthening Health Services for Victims of Sexual Violence

    Forthcoming

    • African Human Rights Law Journal:; Access to Information assessing Access to Information legislation in Commonwealth Africa
    • Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences: Assessing Gender and Political Power in Ghana from the Colonial Period
Attachments Commonwealth Secretariat Legal Division
Denton Hallburging and Warrens (Corporate Finance Energy Groups)
Languages English – Excellent
Contact Mailing Address
Cantonments,
P.O. Box CT1466,
Accra,
Ghana

Telephone
+233(24)4704641

Email
Email Contact

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