Human rights entering West Africa

Good works of Youth for Human Rights International down in West Africa with a trip from Tim Bowles, Incoming Foundation Director for International Development and Director of Youth For Human Rights International, had accepted an invitation to return to Ghana and Liberia from October 22 to November 8 in order to meet with government ministries, educators, students, like-minded human rights leaders and the media to determine the opportunities and assess the barriers to nationwide human rights education in the primary and secondary schools.

Mr. Bowles will be lecturing on human rights at the University of Liberia in Monrovia also leading a forum on human rights education at the U.N.-run Buduburum Refugee Camp in Central District Ghana, holding some 42,000 Liberians displaced from the civil war in their home country.