‘Central Region, Root of Child Trafficking In Ghana’
Central Region has been identified as the root or source of all child and human trafficking activities in the country. ...
Tag: Child labour
The Destruction of Our Future
Meet Kofi, a twelve-year-old boy who works at a gold mine in the Central Region. On Monday Kofi is working ...
Myanmar Releases Nearly 70 More Child Soldiers
Myanmar's military released 67 child soldiers on Friday, its first discharge this year as part of a slow process to ...
More Investment Needed To Promote Child Rights
The SOS Children’s Villages marked the Day of the African Child on Friday, June 16, with a call on government to ...
NGO Encourage Ghanaians To Shun Child Labour
Compassion International Ghana, a non-profit making Christian Organisation, has commemorated this year’s Day of the African Child at Akropong in ...
Accelerating Protection and Equal Opportunities For Children In Ghana – Vice Principal
Very Reverend Professor Joseph Manasseh Yarquah Edusa-Eyison, the Vice Principal of the Methodist University College, Ghana has called on Churches ...
‘We Need Holistic Approach To Combat Child Labour’-Chief of Staff
Government has noted that in view of the many dimensions to child labour in the country, there was the need ...
Ghana’s Performance In Child Labour Fight Not Encouraging – Expert
The Founder of Global Rescue Project, Leah Stenzel, says Ghana’s achievement in the fight against child labour is unacceptably low. ...
Myanmar Child Servants Abused As Legal Protections Prove Elusive
Playing with a tiny kitten is the only thing that stops 13-year-old Myat Noe crying as she lies in a ...
Minister Express Worry Over Streetism, Child Labour and Child Marriages
The Deputy Minister for Roads and Highways and Member of Parliament (MP) for Lawra Constituency in the Upper West Region, ...
Govt Urged To Be Sensitive To Issues of Modern Slavery Like ‘galamsey’
Engage Now Africa (ENA), an international NGO committed to ending poverty in Africa has lauded government’s unwavering commitment to fight ...
The Good, Bad and Ugly
The just-wrapped kids’ talent reality show on TV3, ‘Talented Kidz’ was a hit series, thanks to the exploits of young ...
Pakistan Tackles ‘child Slavery’ With Cash Handouts
A government cash-incentive scheme has helped place almost 90,000 underage Pakistani brick kiln workers into school, officials said Friday, an ...
SOS Children’s Village Makes Giant Strides On Child Labour
The SOS Children’s Village in Tamale is making giant strides in improving child labor in the Northern Region following a ...
Promoting and Protecting Child Rights In Ghana
United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) was adopted in 1989 By George Ofosu Oti The United ...
Government Will Eliminate Child Labour and Trafficking – President
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Monday said his government would work to ensure that all forms of child exploitation ...
We’II Lose Some Markets Globally If We Don’t End Child Labour
President Nana Akufo-Addo has underscored the need for Ghana to intensify the fight against child labour. Delivering his speech at ...
Children Fuel Myanmar’s Economic Boom
Fourteen-year-old San Min Hteik had worked at the steel factory for less than a week when his hand got caught ...
Police Rescue Over 360 Girls From Trafficking
MORE than 360 young girls were rescued from being trafficked into the gulf countries in 2016, the Anti-Human Trafficking Unit ...
Claims of Child Labour On Ghana Farms Overblown
Reports of Ghana using child labour on its cocoa farms are grossly exaggerated and not a true reflection of practices ...