Ghana Journalists Association

The Ghana Journalists Association (GJA), "founded on August 15, 1949, has been a crucial campaign voice for the decriminalising of defamation laws." [1]

• Mrs Gifty Affenyi Dadzie, President of the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA)[2]
• Bright Kwame Blewu, general secretary of the Ghana Journalists Association and director of the Ghana International Press Centre

Funding

In 1996, the Westminster Foundation provided a grant to “fund the rent costs for 6 months of the offices of the Ghana Journalists' Association, the main professional association of journalists in Ghana with a membership of 600 journalists. The project will last from January to June 1996.” [3]

Has received support from the IPDC. [4]