Staff and Volunteers


Catherine Hagan- Founder and President
Catherine Hagan, the founder and president of Right To Rights Foundation is a freelance Fashion editor and Publicist; she graduated from Temple University Japan, Campus in the summer of 2007 with a BA (Hons) in International Relations. Click here to read more


Hiromi Aoki - Coordinator, Japan
Hiromi Aoki graduated from Temple University Japan, Campus in December 2007 with a BA in Economics. Click here to read more


Aku Amable – Coordinator, Ghana
Emi-beth Aku Amable is a Junior Tax Consultant at Pricewaterhouse Coopers in Ghana. She graduated in December 2007 with a BS (Hons) from Ashesi University in Ghana where she majored in Business Administration. Click here to read more


Anisa Awusima- Right To Rights Foundation Volunteer, Ghana
Anisa is currently a freshman at one of the top Universities in Ghana Legon University, with a double major in Spanish and Psychology.

Advisors

Anthony Lindsay Hagan – Economic Advisor
Akua Yawson – Advisor on Cultural situations in Ghana
Mr. Joe Gyampoh – General Advisor
Christian Guerrero – General Advisor

Board of Directors

Mr. Karl Harmsen

  • Director of UNU Institute for Natural Resources in Africa (UNU-INRA).
  • Former Director of the Centre for Space Science and Technology Education in Asia and the Pacific (CSSTEAP), affiliated with the UN Office for Outer Space Affairs in Dehradun, India from 2002-2005.
  • Former executive director of the West and Central African Programs international Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) in Niamey, Niger (1994–1996)
  • Former director of the ICRISAT Resource Management Program in Hyderabad, India (1992–1994)
  • Former director of the Institute for Soil Fertility, Haren, The Netherlands (1986–1992)

Ernestina Naana Hagan

  • First African President of Oikocredit, Ecumenical Development Co-operation (1996-2000), an international Micro-credit Organisation operating in 65 countries (including Ghana) with its head office in Amersfort, Netherlands.- providing credit to the vulnerable.
  • African Representative on the international Board of Ecumenical Church Loan Fund (ECLOF) with its Head Office in Geneva Switzerland (1993-2000) - providing credit to the vulnerable especially women.
  • President of the International Federation of Women Lawyers, Ghana (FIDA Ghana) (2000-2002)
  • Regional Vice President, Africa – FIDA International (2002-2005) Promoting the Rights of Women and Children
  • Member of Ghana Population Council (NPC) – A national body mandated by the President to coordinate population activities in Ghana (2001 to date)
  • Vice Chairperson of the Integrated Productivity and Development Centre (INPRODEC) – An organisation for supporting Grassroots Development (2001-2006)
  • Member of the Board of Ghana Women Fund (GWF) – Providing Credit to Vulnerable women (2002 to date)
  • Co-founder and Co-ordinator of the International Association for the Advancement of Women in Africa (ASAWA) – (1982 to date)
  • Vice President - Catholic Lawyers Guild of Ghana (CLAGG) – 2005 to date
  • Founding and Executive Member - FAWE Ghana Chapter – 1993 to date
  • Founding Member - Women in Law and Development in Africa WILDAF

Andy Asamoah

  • Founder and President of A&C development
  • Career diplomat with the United Nations Organization
  • Former Director of World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland

Princess Ocansey

  • President and Founder of West African Aids Foundation

Mrs. Owiredu Gyampoh

  • 1999- 2001 President of FIDA Ghana

  • 1999 – 2006- 1st Female Registrar General of the Republic of Ghana.

  • 2001 - Chairman of the African Regional Intellectual Property
    Organization (ARIPO) with Headquarters in Harare –
    Zimbabwe.

  • 1994 - Chairman of the advisory committee to the Government of
    Ghana, which presented a report on the policies issues relating to the welfare of people with various disabilities in our society.

  • 1995-2006 - Head of Government with delegations to various
    conferences on Intellectual property issues particularly in Geneva - Switzerland and other part of Europe as well as Africa and Asia.