Ghana

The Ghanaian National Reconciliation Commission (NRC) is a state-sponsored institution with a mandate to investigate human rights abuses in Ghana between 1957 and 1993. Following independence in 1957, Ghana has suffered both military and democratic rules marked by a wide-range of human rights abuses. The NRC has a mandate to address civil and political rights violations, including killings, beatings, detentions, tortures, politically motivated dismissals and violations of property rights.

HRDAG field consultant Richard Conibere spent four months in late 2002 assisting the NRC to develop their coding system and to customize Analyzer for use in source management, including the tracking of cases scheduled for public hearing and the monitoring of cases under investigation and those rejected as false or outside of the Commission's mandate. In subsequent phases, Analyzer has also been used to provide statistics to test the strategic questions of the NRC, including questions such as 'When did disappearances begin?' and 'What locations were used to imprison detainees?'

While this project is not currently funded, HRDAG is dedicated to providing minimal support to the NRC to aid them in their work. Additional funding would provide for descriptive analysis and complex statistical research thereby significantly adding to the Commission's final report.

Originally based at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), HRDAG has provided technical assistance in the following countries:

Africa

• Chad
• Ghana
• Liberia
• Sierra Leone
• South Africa

Asia

• Afghanistan
• Bangladesh
• Cambodia
• Timor-Leste
• Sri Lanka

Europe

• Kosovo

Middle East

• Iran

Central America and Caribbean

• El Salvador
• Guatemala
• Haiti
• México

South America

• Colombia
• Perú

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