Ghana Office Promoting Rights in the Fight against Climate Change by Kingsley Ofei-Nkansah, General Secretary, General Agricultural Workers Union Ghana Table of Content 1. Introduction 2 2. Climate Change and its impact 2 3. Human Rights 3 4. Linkage between climate change and human rights 4 5. Human rights deficit in Africa 5 6. Climate Change aggravates these Human Rights shortfalls in Africa 5 7. Addressing the HR gaps in the context of Climate change 6 8. Right to food 6 9. Multi-level institutional framework for promoting right to food 9 10. National level commitments to food security 10 11. Trade Union Perspective 10 12. Conclusions 10 August 2013 The views expressed in this publication are not necessarily those of FES Ghana or of the organization for which the author works.