A statement presented to Parliament by the Gender Minister, Otiko Djaba about state of alleged witches in camps across the Northern Region has drawn backlash from aid agencies including ActionAid...
Traditional leaders have joined forces with parents in the Sissala East and West areas in the Upper West Region to devise some by-laws to protect young girls against teenage pregnancy and child...
A total of 1,000 children who either dropped out of school or have never been in a classroom before have undergone a nine-month training in complementary basic education in Garu Tempane District of...
Restoring the power of summons to traditional rulers was a surest way to ending the menace of child marriages in communities across the country, the Queenmother of Pai-Kantaga in the Krachi East...
Madam Mary Konney, the Banda District Chief Executive, said forced and early marriages impede girl-child education in the area with many dropping out before reaching primary six due to teenage...
As they say and which I also share, the task of providing quality education, including girls’ education, is about active collaboration, partnership and participation from all of us. If education...
As they say and which I also share, the task of providing quality education, including girls’ education, is about active collaboration, partnership and participation from all of us. If education...
ActionAid Ghana has joined civil society movements, groups and organisations in Africa to launch a Pan-African movement dubbed: “Africans Rising,” in Ghana to encourage justice, peace and dignity...
State agencies, such as the Social Welfare Department, have been urged to speed up processes intended to curtail child marriages. The Programme Manager of ActionAid Ghana for End Child Marriage...
Twenty-three young persons from five African countries have received training in governance and leadership under the ActionAid Global Platform Ghana initiative in Tamale. They were selected from...
ActionAid Ghana has asked government to initiate policies that support the equal allocation of domestic roles and promote equal access to markets for rural women farmers and entrepreneurs. Madam...
Latest: Why galamsey must not be legalised — Minerals Commission explains ActionAid Ghana will today join the Global Alliance for Tax Justice and partner organisations in countries around the world...
Some 50 girls, who were victims of early marriages, were rescued between the period of October 2015 and December 2016, thanks to ActionAid Ghana (AAG) and community vigilantes. The girls, who were...
Last month, His Excellency, the President, completed the list of ministerial appointments with the announcement of 10 regional ministers, bringing the total to 46. There have been other significant...
ActionAid Ghana has bemoaned the 20 per cent representation of women in the appointments of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo so far. After nominating 36 persons for ministerial appointments and...
For 80 year old Awabu Mahama, basic human rights have been absent from her life since 1996, the year she was banished from her home and community and sent to the alleged Witch Camp in Kukuo. During...
Newly appointed Chief of Staff Frema Osei-Opare has indicated that she is very qualified and possesses the set of skills needed to succeed in her new role. “I do come with some experience I think...
“As The Globalisation Project Unfolds, It Exposes Its Bankruptcy At The Philosophical, Political, Ecological And Economic Levels. The Bankruptcy Of The World Order Is Leading To Social, Ecological,...
Scores of women in the Upper East region have taken to the streets, saying they have had enough of shouldering unpaid household jobs alone and clamouring for their husbands to share the domestic...
New United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Thursday announced Nigeria’s Environment minister, Amina Mohammed as his Deputy Secretary-General (DSG). Guterres made the announcement...
