Joseph Kobla Wemakor is a multiple award-winning journalist, an advocate for the UN Sustainable Development Goals, a youth leader, a supporter of women's and children's rights, and a global human rights activist.

Wemakor formed Human Rights Reporters Ghana (HRRG), where he currently serves as executive director, in keeping with his commitment as a human rights activist.

HRRG is a dynamic media advocacy and human rights NGO that brings together journalists, editors, lawyers, and human rights activists to advance human rights in Ghana and beyond.

Wemakor is also the Co-convener of both the SDG3 and the Youth sub-platform of the Ghana Civil Society Organizations Platform on SDGs, as well as the national focal point for a Pan African Network, the African Network of Young Leaders for Peace and Sustainable Development (ANYL4PSD), based in Cameroon.

He is an honorary graduate of the Ghana Institute of Journalism (now UniMAC) and a fellow of the prestigious Bloomberg Media Initiative Africa Financial Journalism Program (BMIA).

In response to the rise in kidnappings in Ghana, Wemakor led the HRRG to launch a nationwide sensitization campaign dubbed “the KTT Project” in 2019 to raise awareness of three key issues: kidnapping, teenage pregnancies, and tramadol/drug abuse.

The campaign team has successfully reached over 60,000 beneficiaries since the program's launch in July 2019, in particular schoolchildren, parents, and youth groups in local communities and places of worship across three regions of Ghana.

The group has received widespread praise for its commitment and passion for its activism roles in protecting and ending rights abuses in Ghana and beyond from individuals, organizations, and institutions both inside and outside Ghana.

The positive feedback that was received inspired the HRRG team of outstanding volunteers to go above and beyond to expand the campaign to include all 16 regions of Ghana.

As a human rights advocacy group on the continent, the HRRG has demonstrated outstanding performance in the field of activism thanks to Joseph Kobla Wemakor's tireless advocacy work, which has helped the HRRG be named among the 10 finalists in the Movement of the Year Award category of the 2020 Africans Rising Activism Awards. At the finals, HRRG finished in fourth place, becoming the sole group to represent Ghana on the continent.

In the same year (October 17, 2020), HRRG Executive Director Joseph Kobla Wemakor received recognition from a global media outlet based in Ukraine, the "Business Woman Magazine," which highlighted him in its glossy pages for his update on human rights defense among some notable figures, activists, and business leaders at the European continent level.

On October 28, 2020, Joaquin V. Boston, Chairman of the Entreps-International Board of Global Actors and Business for Sustainability, shortlisted HRRG's National Sensitization Campaign on Kidnapping Teenage Pregnancy and Tramadol/Drug Abuse (KTT PROJECT), along with other projects and initiatives, to compete in the 5th Global Entreps Awards final round.

He was honored by the former U.S. Ambassador to Ghana, Her Excellency Stephanie Sullivan, to be invited to her residence to dine with her on the eve of December 9, 2021, among the heroes of the 16 Days of Activism Against Sexual and Gender-Based Violence Campaign in Ghana. The night was dedicated to recognizing and celebrating the heroes.

Joseph Kobla Wemakor was nominated in February 2023 for the 2023 African Human Rights Defenders Shield Award by the African Defenders, a Pan-African Human Rights Defenders Network based in Kampala, Uganda. This prestigious award honors people who work to advance and defend human rights in Africa.

On July 15, 2023, the HRRG and its founder Joseph Kobla Wemakor were honored with the prestigious 5th UN Global Entreps Awards for their work on the KTT Project, which was named the "Best International Practice Award on Sustainability" by the Entreps-International Board of Global Actors and Business for Sustainability. This was made possible thanks to the cooperation of the United Nations in San Jose, the capital of Costa Rica, and 1,000 Global Jurors of Entreps.

Wemakor is also the recipient of the Honorary Award for Peace, Security, and Education of the Year 2021 at the maiden edition of the Africa Early Childhood Education Awards.

As a celebrated journalist, he has picked up multiple journalism awards for his dexterity and captivating news reporting, with much focus on critical issues that always catch the attention of policymakers.

This includes the enviable ‘Campus Clique Awards 2016’ of the Ghana Institute of Journalism (maiden edition), the Migration Media Awards 2018 (winner) as well as the recipient of the “GIJ 60th Anniversary Media Contest” for producing an outstanding print report which sheds light on the UN Sustainable Development Goals.