Dorcas Ama Frema Coker-Appiah (born 17 August 1946) is a Ghanaian lawyer, women's rights activist, and the executive director of the Gender Studies and Human Rights Documentation Centre, also known as the "Gender Centre", in Accra, Ghana.
She has had (and continues to have) important roles in several organisations promoting women's rights at national, regional and international levels.
Coker-Appiah was born on 17 August 1946 in Wenchi, in the British colony of the Gold Coast (now Ghana).
[2] Coker-Appiah is the executive director of the Gender Studies and Human Rights Documentation Centre.
[2] In September 2017, she led a workshop for a group of "leading African feminists" at the South African organisation Masimanyane Women's Rights International, together with Dr Hilda Tadria, the executive director of the Mentoring and Empowerment Programme for Young Women in Uganda, and provided a "powerful workshop unpacking the patriarchy system".