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Ghana LAWA Fellow 1994-1995
L.L.B. Hons., University of Ghana, Legon
B.L. Certificate of Law, Ghana School of Law
L.L.M., Georgetown University Law Center
Executive Director
The Ark Foundation, Ghana
P.O. Box AT 1230
Achimota-Accra
Ghana, West Africa
Work Phone: 233-21-511610
Work Fax: 233-21-511382
Mobile Phone: 233-24425-4280
Email: adaboagye@yahoo.com
or thearkgh@yahoo.co.uk
Organizational website: www.arkfoundationgh.org
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Affiliations:
Ghana Bar Association
International Federation of Women Lawyers (FIDA-Ghana)
African Women Lawyers Association (AWLA)
Leadership and Advocacy for Women in Africa (Ghana) Alumnae Incorporated (LAWA – GH)
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Profile:
Ms. Aboagye is currently studying for her Master of Arts in Theology and Missions at the Akrofi-Christaller Institute for Theology, Mission and Culture. She expects to complete her postgraduate degree in October 2006. Ms. Aboagye has extensive research expertise in issues of polygamy and labor organizations.
In 2006, Ms. Aboagye was honored by being represented in a wall exhibition under the theme, "Women Empowering Women" which opened in Accra at the Du bois center. The exhibition, organized by the Foundation for Female Photojournalists (FFP), featured 50 Ghanaian women who are working in diverse ways to empower women.
Ms. Aboagye is currently the acting Executive Director of the Ark Foundation in Ghana. The Ark Foundation, a Christian, non-governmental, not-for-profit, non-partisan organization founded in 1994, seeks the “total liberation of women and children from all systems, laws, traditions and practices which violate their right to human dignity and development.”
LAWA Experience:
For her graduate research, Ms. Aboagye completed a research paper entitled, “Polygamy, Equality and the Gender Debate, a comparative study of Ghana and the United States.” She completed her fellowship internship with Human Rights Watch, in their Women’s Rights Project, for which her final project explored whether the International Labour Conference (ILO) provided mechanisms for the support of human rights. Ms. Aboagye found that only organizations of workers, ratifying states, delegates to the ILO, and trade unions could initiate human rights actions under the ILO. She attended numerous conferences while she was a Fellow, such as the following:
Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights under the Law conference on the theme: “Africa-America Women and the Law: Reclaiming our Communities.” (June 1995)
National Black Women’s Health Project conference on the theme: “Empowered women challenging violence and AIDS globally,” where she presented a paper at a workshop panel discussion on the topic, “Violence against Women and Children in Africa.” (June 1995)
National Council for International Health conference on the theme: “Violence as a Global Health Issue: Responding to the Crisis.” (June 1995)
Constituency for Africa conference on the theme: “The Significance of GATT and Aid to African Countries.” (July 1995)
United States Labor Department – International seminar on “Child Trafficking and Prostitution.” (September 1995)
Institute of Global Research on the South ( American University) conference on the theme: “Implementation of the Beijing Plan of Action in the South.” (November 1995)
Additional Experience:
Following LAWA, Angela returned to Ghana as a prosecutor in the Attorney General's Department in Korfidua in the Eastern part of the country.
Ms. Aboagye has appeared on several radio programs, including being interviewed about Tkrosi practices in 1997.
Ms. Aboagye is an alumna of the African Women's Leadership Institute of the Akina Mama wa Afrika Organization, based in the United Kingdom, from which she graduated in 1999.
In 1999, the Ark Foundation in Ghana, an advocacy-based human rights organization which she had founded in 1995 became fully operational. Through this organization, in 2000 Ms. Aboagye set up the first shelter/crisis center for victims of intra-family/gender based violence in Ghana. In addition, the Ark has established a Legal Center and a Counseling Center for providing sex-based and gender-based violence support services in different locations in the greater Accra and Eastern regions.
She has also established the Women’s Law and Human Rights Institute, the first of its kind in Ghana to provide learning and capacity-building opportunities for young women leaders and advocates in Ghana.
She has been instrumental in the formation of a number of women’s rights and advocacy networks in Ghana, including: Sisters’ Keepers, Network for Women’s Rights, Gender Violence Survivors’ Support Network, and the National Coalition on Domestic Violence Legislation in Ghana.
Since February 2005, Ms. Aboagye has lectured on Gender and the Law at the University of Ghana, Legon.
Publications:
Gender Violence and HIV/AIDS – a Manual for Service Providers (Ed. With others), 2003
How the Perpetrators of Violence against Women and Children Escape – A Study of Escapes from the Time of the Violent Act, through Formal Complaint to Prosecution – With Dr. Adomako and Esi Awotwi (2005) AAWORD/ Cinquieme/Presses de l’Impremerie Saint Paul Publication
African Perspectives on Gender Justice – Published by Africa Legal Aid Special Series 3 on African Perspectives on International Criminal Justice (2005)
Polygamy, Equality, and the Gender Debate: A Comparative Study of Ghana and the United States. Graduate Thesis for Masters in Law Degree (LL.M) at the Georgetown University Law Center, 1995. Published in Voices of African Women: Women’s Rights in Ghana Uganda and Tanzania. Carolina Academic Press, 2005
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