US Senator Dianne Feinstein on Wednesday pressed her case to fellow lawmakers for requiring US amateur sports governing bodies to notify law-enforcement agencies regarding all reports of abuse. The...
Two people running an adoption centre in West Bengal which is suspected of selling at least 17 children to couples abroad have been arrested, police said on Tuesday. The orphanage allegedly sold...
Indian police said Tuesday they have arrested the heads of an adoption centre suspected of selling at least 17 children to foreign couples, the latest trafficking scandal to hit the country....
Police in Jirapa have arrested two men from Tampaala community in the Jirapa District of the Upper West Region, for abetting the marriage of their teenage daughters. The two, 54-year-old Noponong...
Reports of Ghana using child labour on its cocoa farms are grossly exaggerated and not a true reflection of practices in cocoa growing areas, the Western Regional Minister designate has said. When he...
The Western Regional Minister-nominee, Dr. Kwaku Afriyie, has bemoaned the growing perception of child labour in the cocoa sector which he described as “grossly exaggerated.” During his vetting...
The Anti-human trafficking Civil Society Organisation (CSO), Challenging Heights, has rescued some eighteen trafficked children from the Lake Volta. The children, aged between 5 and 17, before their...
Challenging Heights over the weekend rescued 18 more trafficked children from the Lake Volta. Already, the organisation has rescued over 1,500 in the last twelve years. These 18 children, who are...
An inquiry examining institutional sex abuse in Australia has heard 7% of the nation’s Catholic priests allegedly abused children between 1950 and 2010. In one order, more than 40% of church...
Parenting requires interpersonal skills and makes emotional and most parents learn parenting practices from their own parents, some they accept and some they discard. On the other hand, culture is...
“One day, my uncle told me the man taking care of me was coming for me”, says Aminatu. That statement from an uncle she trusted who now wanted to hand her out for marriage broke her heart and...
Mission Director of The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Ghana Andrew Karas visited the Volta Region from January 24-27 where he met with stakeholders impacted by...
Six Kindergarten pupils of the Breman Gyambra Methodist KG School are reported dead, after their dilapidated classroom block collapsed this morning. Three other pupils are in a critical...
A Senior Lecturer at the University of Education Winneba (UEW), Mr Kweku Esia Donkor is calling on teachers at the basic level to intensify education on child trafficking to equip children to report...
Married life not only impacts you, it touches your children. By allowing issues to grow and by not solving them in your relationship, they could really hurt and in some cases damage a child’s view...
About 350 victims have reported child sexual abuse within UK football clubs, police chiefs have said. The National Police Chiefs' Council said a "significant number of calls" were made to forces...
With the introduction of the Care Reform Initiative (CRI) in 2007 by the Department of Social Development (DSD), there has been a shift from emphasizing institutionalized care for orphans to...
Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim has withdrawn a bill that would pardon men convicted of sex with underage girls if they had married them. The government acted just before the controversial...
The Agona Swedru Municipal Hospital in the Central Region on Thursday observed the world prematurity day to raise awareness of pre-term birth and the concerns of pre-term babies and their families....
A 10-year old girl has been left bedridden after police officers pursuing robbers fired a bullet straight into her forehead. Dorothy Appiah, a student of Humble Way Mission at Sowutuom in Accra was...
