The Centre for Public Interest Law (CEPIL) has launched a national digital portal for whistleblowing, encouraging citizens to use the portal to report and help stem environmental crimes and human rights abuses and violations in the country.
The CEPIL was founded in 1999 as a non-partisan and Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), with the primary aim of making the pursuit of justice accessible and affordable to poor and marginalized communities and individuals.
It advocates and facilitates access to justice by poor communities against policies and actions (private and public), which adversely affect the interests of those communities.
Mr Augustine Niber, the Executive Director of CEPIL who gave the advice said the portal offered opportunity for vulnerable people and communities as well as everybody to report abuses of land rights, misconducts, environmental harm, corruption, discrimination and other forms of injustices.
He said: “Our ability to report human rights violations safely and in an anonymous manner remain a cornerstone of democratic governance and social justice” and expressed the hope that citizens would leverage on the portal, report and to spark national conversation in advancing rights protection and democratic governance.
Mr Niber was speaking at the launch of the portal held at Goaso in the Ahafo Region, saying a study conducted in 2021 by the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) showed low awareness and utilization of whistleblower...
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