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Housing Rights Centre

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Ghana
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The Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE) is an independent, non-governmental, not-for-profit human rights organisation. Registered in the Netherlands, COHRE coordinates its global activities from their headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. Their mission is to ensure the full enjoyment of the human right to adequate housing for everyone, everywhere, and to prevent forced evictions against persons, families and communities from their homes. COHRE’s activities also apply to ensuring that the economic and socio-cultural rights of people are upheld. COHRE operates from offices in Geneva, Duluth and Accra and works at various levels – from grassroots assistance to communities fighting forced eviction or slum conditions, to standard-setting at international institutions such as the United Nations – to resist and prevent forced evictions, strengthen the protection and promotion of housing rights and increase awareness of these fundamental rights as key components of international human rights law. COHRE work currently includes three major projects. These are: • The Women and Housing Rights Programme, which mainly involves the Women’s Land Link Africa (WLLA) Project • The Global Forced Eviction Programme • The Right to Water Programme The Programme’s coordinating office now operates from Accra, Ghana, where it is registered as an NGO. The Accra office serves as the main base for COHRE programmes in Africa. In Ghana, COHRE is actively involved in projects covering the following focus areas: • Policy advocacy, on a regional level; • Research; • Networking; • Information. Available Positions: * Lawyers A lawyer with an interest in human rights is required to assist with policy advocacy and educating people, especially women, on their housing rights. * Women’s Rights Project Assistant A project assistant is required to support the Women’s Land Link Program, by helping improve women’s access to, control over and ownership of land and housing. * Project Assistant A project assistant is needed to support media advocacy programs, help coordinate training courses and develop publications for community education. Please visit <a href="http://www.ikando.org/cohre.html" target="_new">www.ikando.org/cohre.html</a> or send us an email to info@ikando.org

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