Children as young as three and six years have become favourites of female child traffickers as they will not be impregnated. This is part of highlights of a baseline study by the International...
The girls and their traffickers were arrested last Sunday upon a tip off Ghana Immigration Service has arrested victims being trafficked alongside four (4) of their leaders at the Aflao boarder...
Government has noted that in view of the many dimensions to child labour in the country, there was the need for a holistic approach towards eliminating all worst forms of child labour in Ghana by...
The Domestic Violence Victim Support Unit (DOVVSU) of Ghana Police Service has recorded 15 child trafficking cases in the Central Region within the first quarter of 2017 alone. The Central Regional...
Some government officials have been linked to the menace of human trafficking in Ghana . This was revealed, plain and simple, by the past deputy head of mission to Saudi Arabia, Hajia Hawawu Boya...
In Benin City, Nigeria's capital of illegal migration, no one says the word "prostitution". The word on the street for the young girls who leave for Italy or France is "hustling". About 37,500...
The Founder of Global Rescue Project, Leah Stenzel, says Ghana’s achievement in the fight against child labour is unacceptably low. The leader of the American volunteer group told 3news.com that...
Worldwide, human trafficking is a canker that eats into the fabrics of every nation and impedes its development. The indigenous and the marginalised people who suffer abject poverty, and are...
A total of 19 African countries on Thursday launched an EU-funded network to tackle piracy, high seas robbery, kidnappings and human trafficking in the strategically important Gulf of Guinea. The...
The Deputy Minister for Roads and Highways and Member of Parliament (MP) for Lawra Constituency in the Upper West Region, Anthony Abayifaa Karbo has bemoaned the continuous existence of streetism,...
The Middle East forced labour bandits and the polemic of slavery conventions The recent countless images and voice messages which are making the rounds on the social media and purported to be from...
The slavery and killing of vulnerable African ladies in the Arab world must stop Authorities must act swiftly to save the situation The issues making the news in recent times especially on social...
Two Cambodians have been arrested for allegedly trafficking at least ten organ donors to India for illegal kidney transplants worth tens of thousands of dollars, police said Friday. The two Phnom...
The Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) has arrested two persons for allegedly attempting to traffick seven girls to Jordan in the Middle East. Courage Boadi, a travel and tours operator, and...
Engage Now Africa (ENA), an international NGO committed to ending poverty in Africa has lauded government’s unwavering commitment to fight illegal-mining popularly known as ‘galamsey’ in the...
The just-wrapped kids’ talent reality show on TV3, ‘Talented Kidz’ was a hit series, thanks to the exploits of young prodigy, DJ Switch, who got viewers and social media buzzing throughout the...
Child Rights International is calling for the arrest and prosecution of parents who engage their children in illegal mining. According to the organisation, its latest findings on child exploitation...
President Nana Akufo-Addo has underscored the need for Ghana to intensify the fight against child labour. Delivering his speech at the 2017 May Day Celebration, the president warned that, Ghana could...
The Police have rescued 31 children engaged in forced labour on the Volta Lake in the Volta Region. The police also arrested 11 persons in connection with the trafficking of the children. The...
Weekend Today can confirm that St Johns, a suburb of Accra on the Achimota- Ofankor road, has become a hot vicinity for sex workers who are often called ‘The Ladies of the Night.’ The sex trade,...
