Francis-Xavier Sosu
[dropcap]T[/dropcap]he embattled human rights lawyer, Mr. Francis-Xavier Sosu is set to go continental with his human rights advocacy.
He has been appointed as the first President of a newly established continental human rights organization, Youth For Human Rights Africa, (YoHRA) headquartered in Accra-Ghana.
[ads1]YoHRA was established in New York during the August 2016 International Human Rights Conference with the objective of promoting human right across Africa.
The organization will tomorrow August 2, 2017 launch its first project, 2017 Ghana Youth Human Rights Conference which is scheduled for December 11, 2017, Accra-Ghana is on the theme “Promoting Fundamental Human Rights; A Catalyst for Socio-economic Development in a Free and Just Society”
According to a statement signed by Mr. Christopher Ankou, the Communication Director of YoHRA, the launch of the conference is to give the leadership of YoHRA the opportunity to brief the media and the general public about the December 11, 2017 conference.
Mr. Ankou told Awake News that the upcoming launch will kick start a series of human rights promotion activities in Ghana and Africa. He also intimated that YoHRA will also roll out membership drive to get committed human rights oriented groups and individuals as Human Rights Ambassadors who will ensure that human rights education is carried out across Ghana and eventually the African continent.
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With this, it is certainly clear the celebrated Ghanaian human rights lawyer who has been banned by the General Legal Council of Ghana for three years will be using his ‘burying in the soil’ rather as a fertile grounds to germinate and propagate his human rights advocacy across the African continent.
Lawyer Sosu’s ban on June 1, 2017 on two counts of overcharging a client; touting and personal advertising on social media came as a shock to many with prominent persons and groups in Ghana describing it as excessive, hash and affront to natural justice. They have since called for the reversal of the ban.
Mr. Sosu has since appealed the decision of the General Legal Council and also applied for suspension of the ban but the Appeals Court on last Wednesday, July 26, 2017, however, decline jurisdiction saying the Notice of Appeal should have been filed at the General Legal Council.
What was not clear was the fact that the judge made no reference to the facts that Lawyer Sosu sworn an affidavit in which he said he went to the offices of the GLC in the company of others to file the appeal and he was told that the General Legal Council did not have a registry that receives those Notices of Appeal.
Source: AwakeAfrica.com