Mrs. Florence Ayisi Quartey, Acting Director, Department of Children of the Ministry of Gender and Social Protection, has called for a focus on creating awareness on child abuse during this coronavirus pandemic period. She said aside disrupting normalcy, the lockdown that followed had aggravated existing challenges of children and the …
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ENSURING CHILDREN’S ACCESS TO JUSTICE DURING THE COVID-19 Honourable Ministers of State, development partners, CSOs, children, distinguished ladies and gentlemen of the media fraternity, today marks an important day in the history of the Ghanaian Child. Since the inception of the Convention on the Rights of the Child it is …
Read More »The Tamale Circuit Court presided over by His Honour William Appiah Twumasi, has sentenced Danaah Sulemana aged 25 to 10 years imprisonment for defiling a two-year-old girl at Kumbungu in the Northern region. The accused was convicted upon his own plead in court. The judge upon the plead by the …
Read More »The Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolitan Director for the Department of Social Welfare, Constance Baidoo, has bemoaned the alarming increase in cases of incest and defilement in peri-urban communities of the Metropolis. Ms. Baidoo who made this known in an interview with the Ghana News Agency explained that victims of this incestuous act …
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Government is being urged to work speedily to construct a new remand home for boys who fall foul of the law after it emerged no such facility is operating across the country. According to a statement from the Girls’ Advocacy Alliance, the only such facility, the Boys Remand Home at …
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Abena, a 14-year-old teenage girl, is the fifth of eight children born to her parents in Bolgatanga in the Upper East Region of Ghana. She travelled to Kumasi in April 2015 with the hope of a better standard of living. She narrated how she was inspired by other very young …
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Accra, July 20, GNA – Ghana presented its first Voluntary National Review (VNR) report on the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development at the 2019 High-Level Political Forum (HLPF) at the United Nations (UN) on 17 July. The HLPF is part of the follow-up and review arrangement for …
Read More »Community leaders have been hailed for this feat Neither teenage pregnancy nor child marriage has been recorded in the Elmina Zongo community in the Komenda-Edina-Eguafo-Abirem (KEEA) municipality of the Central Region for the past decade. The feat is as a result of collaborative efforts by the community leaders led by …
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As part of measures to ensure that, their decisions are considered in the proposed Amendment of the children Act, Juvenile Justice Act and the Criminal Offences Act, five hundred and forty-five(545) children between the ages of 10 and 17 selected from child Rights clubs existing in the schools, girls and …
Read More »Accra, June 24, GNA – An Accra Circuit Court on Monday remanded a mason for allegedly defiling a 13-year-old girl. David Zebede, 35, pleaded not guilty to the charge and he will make his next appearance on July 7. He had told the court that he was framed up by …
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The Assin Fosu Divisional Police Command in the Central Region has rescued 29 Togolese nationals from suspected human traffickers. The victims were being transported in a sprinter bus with registration number GY–2576-18 which was headed to Elubo from Togo. The driver of the sprinter bus was identified only as Yusuf …
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The final resting place of late President, John Evans Atta Mills, Asomdwee Park has been taken over by marijuana smokers and prostitutes, a family member has revealed. Mr Paul Ansah Ackom, spokesperson for the family of the late President said the present state of the first presidential mausoleum is nothing …
Read More »The launch of six policy and regulatory documents to strengthen child welfare system Madam Cynthia Mamle Morrison, the Minister of Gender, Children, and Social Protection (MoGCSP), has appealed to Ghanaians to ensure that foster homes for children become just brief transitional places and not their permanent abode. Madam Morrison, who …
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The launch of six policy and regulatory documents to strengthen child welfare system Discount on your flight to the US or EuropeBook via this link and receive US$ 50 discount! Madam Cynthia Mamle Morrison, the Minister of Gender, Children, and Social Protection (MoGCSP), has appealed to Ghanaians to ensure …
Read More »The 13-year-old girl was defiled by two men [File photo] Mother of a 13-year-old girl, Ama [pseudonym] allegedly defiled separately by two men, one of them a chief within a week, is seeking justice for her daughter. Chief of Freso in Bosome Freho District of Ashanti Region, is said to …
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