THE Upper West Regional office of the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) received a total of 283 cases last year.
Out of the number, 220 were resolved, seven were rejected, five of them were withdrawn while 35 of the cases were still pending.
Most of the cases concerned maintenance of children, spouses and pregnancies.
Others were ownership of property, labour issues, assault and abuse related cases.
According to Mr Adama Mumuni, the Regional Director of CHRAJ, his office mainly used mediation for the settlement of the cases.
"As a result of our interventions, we have been able to bring reconciliation among a lot of people; people who hitherto saw themselves as enemies, were now brothers and sisters," he said.
Mr Mumuni said the commission considered every issue as serious and therefore treated all cases with the needed alacrity.
"We have the confidence of complainants because of our fairness and neutrality as nobody has ever raised objections to our decisions", Mr Mumuni stressed.
He said a total of 177 educational programmes on various issues of national concern were carried out in all the nine districts in the region.
He said he was of the belief that such programmes went a long way to ensure violence free elections in the region last year.
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