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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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

POLICE in Atebubu in Bono East Region have arrested a 29-year-old man, Jonah Jato who was allegedly trafficking 19 girls between the ages of nine and 16 to an unknown destination. The Atebubu Municipal Police Command acting upon a tip-off rescued the girls at the bank of the Volta River …

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 …

The victim was raped on two separate occasions by the same victim The Chief of Freso, a farming community in the Bosome Freho District of the Ashanti region is in the grips of the Bekwai Divisional Police for raping a 12-year-old girl. Nana Kofi Asumaning who is currently behind bars …

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 …

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 …

Auto electrician jailed 25 years for impregnating daughter A 40-year-old auto electrician has been sentenced to 25 years imprisonment in hard labour for defiling and impregnating his biological daughter by a Tarkwa circuit court. Although the convict, Joseph Abaidoo, denied the charges since prosecution begun in 2015, the court presided …

A group of kayaye girls The dire economic situation in the country has led to an upsurge in the number of girls engaged in the Head Porter business popularly known as ‘Kayaye’. Teenagers plying the trade are aged between 8 and 15. When GBC’s Radio Ghana caught up with a …

The baby girl being rescued by one of the residents of the town A 10-month-old baby girl is battling for her life at the Senya Breku Health Centre after her mother allegedly buried her in a forest at Krobo-Akye near Senya Breku in the Central region. According to witnesses, they …

Every evening, Melphia leaves a place locals refer to as “hell on earth” and goes somewhere even worse. To a hotel room where the curtains are always drawn. Melphia is 13 years old. She lives in a slum in Kumasi, the second-largest city in Ghana. And for the past three …

The Paramount Chief of Akyode Traditional Area has advised his male sub chiefs to control their libidos and desist from “chasing young girls”. According to Nana Obonbo Sewura Lepuwura II, it would be morally wrong for the sub chiefs “to take all the young girls” in their respective communities denying …