The Wa East District Education Directorate and the Ghana Police service have rescued Ms. Gladys Bassah, a 17-year-old Junior High School graduate from Zinye from given out for early marriage. Ms....
More than 60 adolescent girls and parent peer counselors within the Kochem, Ngogu and Bogunaayili communities in the Northern region, will receive training on community response and accountability...
The Central Region, ranked as the second highest region with high prevalence of teenage pregnancy in the country, has started witnessing a decline in the number of cases, the Regional Department of...
A judge on Wednesday halted an auction of intimate items of Madonna including a breakup letter from Tupac Shakur after the pop superstar said her privacy was violated. New York Justice Gerald...
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...
Thirty-nine (39) basic school girls have been impregnated in the Wa East District of the Upper West Region in the first half of 2017, as against 28 within the same period in 2016. Mr. Evans Kpebah,...
Thirty-nine (39) basic school girls have been impregnated in the Wa East District of the Upper West Region in the first half of 2017, as against 28 within the same period in 2016. Mr. Evans Kpebah,...
Students of the University of Cape Coast who impregnate underage girls will be arrested and prosecuted, the Department of Gender in the Central Region has warned. The caution comes on the back of a...
Students of the University of Cape Coast who impregnate underage girls will be arrested and prosecuted, the Department of Gender in the Central Region has warned. The caution comes on the back of a...
A fifteen-member Girl-Child Education task-force has been inaugurated in Cape Coast with the responsibility to champion girl-child education in the region. The team would among others provide...
Tanzania President John Magufuli has said girls will not be allowed back to school after giving birth during his administration. He accused civil society organisations, which have been urging the...
All Kenyan schoolgirls are to get free sanitary pads, the government has said. It is hoped the move will improve access to education in a country where many cannot afford sanitary products like pads...
Queen mothers in the Ashanti region are considering reintroducing puberty rites to curb the high rate of teenage pregnancies in the region. According to statistics from the regional health...
A five-dayinduction and transition training for young female school leavers in the Central Region under the sponsorship of the Campaign for Female Education (CAMFED) opened last Monday at the...
Education stakeholders have expressed concern about the high rate of teenage pregnancy in the Central Tongu District of the Volta Region, describing it as alarming. The situation has led to several...
Female genital mutilation is truly a controversial subject and an abhorrent practice We continue from Part 1 (Note: In New York, this author sat in a class with a Guinean/Senegalese/Sierra Leonean...
The First Lady, Mrs Rebecca Akufo-Addo, has appealed to traditional leaders in the Central Region to help address alarming rates of reported teenage pregnancy cases in the area, in support of her...
Since forever, for one reason or another, I have stayed “woke” in regards to all forms of oppression and social injustices; in my personal life, my professional life, and society generally; as if...
Discussants at a public forum to indentify the cause of the increasing cases of parental neglect, unanimously agreed that uncontrolled births resulting from the bringing forth too many children in...
Minister of Gender, Women and Social Protection, Otiko Afisa Djaba has mounted a strong defence of her recent statement insisting that she never promoted rape against young girls. The Minister, over...
