DCI-GHANA Defence for Children Internation
The Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection, has initiated moves to review and amend current legislative framework on Children. Madam Otiko Afisah Djabah, Minister of Gender, Children and Social Protection, said the review would address identified gaps and to also conform to the Child and Family Welfare and Justice …
Read More »1100 defilement cases unresolved since 2015 – DOVVSU
Data from the Domestic Violence and Victim Support Unit (DOVVSU) of the Ghana Police Service has revealed that out of the 1,919 defilement cases reported between 2015 and 2016, 1,100 are yet to be resolved. The cases are either awaiting trial or under investigation, a clear demonstration of the slow …
Read More »14-year-old girl paralyzed after being raped by chainsaw operator
A 14 years class six pupil in Assin Fosu in the central region cannot properly walk nor eat after being raped by a chainsaw operator in the area. The girl who was sent to mill cassava for an evening meal was called by the chainsaw operator to deliver a parcel …
Read More »Sexual battles in Ghana’s prisons – Prisons Officer reveals how inmates survive
A Public relations Officer of the Ghana Prisons Service, DSP, Daniel Machator has revealed the struggles prisoners have to endure in addition to their months, weeks and years of service in the various prisons across the country. In a piece seeking to highlight the issue of sex and same-sex relationships …
Read More »Court orders woman to be killed for poisoning 3-year-old boy to death
A 24-year old woman has been sentenced to death by a Kumasi High Court for the murder of a little boy, the only child of his mother. Talata Baana poisoned the three-year boy at Nkawie in the Atwima-Nwabiagya. She pleaded not guilty to the crime but the seven-member jury returned …
Read More »13-year-old commits suicide in Kumasi
A 13-year-old boy has died in what is suspected to be a suicide at Adukrom in the Asokore Mampong Municipality of the Ashanti Region. The class five pupil of the local Municipal Assembly Basic School, Denis Ali, is believed to have hanged himself at home after school in the absence …
Read More »About Us
50-year old farmer sentenced 20 years for impregnating 13-year old
The Techiman Circuit Court has sentenced a 50-year-old farmer to 20 years imprisonment with hard labour for defiling, impregnating and eloping with a 13-year-old. Father of the victim narrated that the accused approached him for accommodation and job. He agreed to offer him help. But his guest eloped with his …
Read More »Hello world!
Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start writing!
Read More »Child marriages on ascendancy – NGO
The Defence for Children International Ghana, one of the alliance partners implementing the Girls Advocacy Alliance in Ghana, has disclosed that there is an upsurge of child marriages in some communities in the country. It said the phenomenon was occurring because child protection institutions that were supposed to undertake regular …
Read More »Child prostitutes’ offer free sex in Cape Coast
Authorities of the Department of Social Welfare in the Central Region, have bemoaned the increasing spate of child prostitution in the area especially Cape Coast, the regional capital where the situation is alarming. Mr Daniel Wallace Akyeampong Cape Coast Metropolitan Director of Social Welfare, revealed that these prostitutes in their …
Read More »Child protection must become urgent priority – Dr. Oppong
Kumasi, June 16, GNA – The Defence for Children International, an NGO, has called for the nation to make the fight against child abuse and neglect an urgent priority. Dr. George Oppong, its Executive Secretary, expressed deep worry that substantial number of Ghanaian children continued to suffer all forms of …
Read More »44 girls and their traffickers arrested at Aflao boarder
Ghana Immigration Service has arrested victims being trafficked alongside four (4) of their leaders at the Aflao boarder trying to move out of the country to Nigeria en-route to Saudi Arabia. Acting Head of Public Affairs for the Immigration service, Amoako Atta who confirmed the arrest to Joy News’s Latif …
Read More »Anti-human trafficking unit takes over Kasoa alleged human traffickers case
The alleged human trafficking case at Kasoa involving suspects Alhassan Gariba 27 and Fuseini Yaminu, 50 has been transferred to the Anti-Human Trafficking Unit of the Ghana Police Service. The suspects were arrested few days ago following investigations carried out by Rainbow Radio’s Kwabena Agyekum Banahene. The reporter got a …
Read More »About two million Ghanaian children affected by child labour – Survey
The recent Ghana Labour Standards Survey (GLSS-6) has shown that 21.8 per cent, representing 1.9 million children aged between five and 17 years out of the over eight million nationwide population, are engaged in child labour. The Ministry of Employment and Labour Relations says the statistics released in August 2014, …
Read More »