With 1 month to the 2024 Elections in Ghana, on December 7th, the Planet Repairs Internationalist Observatory, and the Planet Repairs Internationalist Observatory – United Kingdom Pan-Afrikan Monitoring Action Circuit (PRIO-UKD/PAMAC) highlight increasing concerns around the Ghana elections and the environmental injustice issues.
We note that the growing concerns of a wide diversity of people from all walks of life inside and outside Ghana about the Galamsey small-scale mining menace and its catastrophic impact upon the country’s environment is clearing the path to greater awareness around extractivist plunder of resources by way of all forms of destructive mining criminalities of Ecocide and the vital necessity now for Planet Repairs. The role of the various indigenous and other Community-based groups, organisations and networks coalescing into building the Ghana in Planet Repairs Action Dialogue (GIPRAD) is getting its well deserved international recognition. The exemplary pace being set in this historic Planet Repairs coalition building endeavour by the Pro-Nkrumah Unity Movement (Pro-NUM) ought to encourage a wider diversity of Social Justice networks also to get involved in the GIPRAD. We therefore cordially welcome and encourage all the others who are engaging in the Yenaraasasesemka Conversations to go ahead in their collaborations and participatory explorations with those in the GIPRAD in order not only to heighten Environmental Justice Consciousness but also to bolder advance Planet Repairs Conscientization in and beyond Ghana in furthering Global Citizenship educational pursuit of Global Justice for all.
As the PRIO-UKD/PAMAC, focusing on security, we are heightening and encouraging monitoring of security within the country, and urge those supporting the Planet Repairs Internationalist Observatory (PRIO) to build visibility of the escalating violence in the country.
Particular attention needs to be paid to concerns around:
Possibility of Electoral Violence;
Electoral Commission Corruption;Apparent Judiciary capture, glaring bias and misuse by some political party;
Escalating Paramartial and Paramiltiary Violence;
Marginalisation of Indigenous Communities, and Indigenous Community Disenfranchisement, with particular focus on rural indigenous communities;
All state and non-state actors can make observations known to the PRIO Secretariat through the contact form. Observation contributions will be verified where possible for credibility.
Signed:
Marina Xochitl for the PRIO Secretariat
www.prio.earth
[email protected]
