The Anti-Human Trafficking Unit (ATHU) at the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) Headquarters, the Marine Police Unit with support from the Eastern Regional Police Command in collaboration with...
By: James Kofi Annan I know you just came out of a very turbulent vetting and approval process. It was tough, so you probably would wish that I allowed you to settle first, before I brought my...
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...
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...
Minister-designate for the Interior, Ambrose Dery, has said he will act speedily to push a response to the US government concerning efforts to curb the disturbing phenomenon of human trafficking....
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...
The Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection has presented three pickups to the Anti Human Trafficking Unit of the criminal investigations department to help rescue trafficked victims. The...
A GNA Feature by Patience A. Gbeze Accra, Dec. 30, GNA - Human trafficking and slavery has become an international problem affecting millions of people and a number of countries across the globe,...
Human trafficking and slavery is an international concern affecting millions of people across the globe. For Ghana, there have been numerous incidents of trafficking and abuse both internally and...
The UN Secretary-General yesterday (December 20, 2016) pleaded with Member States to take steps to help victims of human trafficking and also to prevent further cases in the future. These are heinous...
Malaysian police have arrested three people for allegedly selling babies following an Al Jazeera investigation into the country's underground baby trafficking trade. A woman and two men were arrested...
Ghana and La Cote d'Ivoire, on Thursday signed a co-operation agreement to establish a formal basis of co-operation between the two countries on the fight against Cross-Border Child Trafficking and...
The Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) and the U. S Customs and Border Protection have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to facilitate the exchange of customs expertise from both countries. The...
The Ministry of Employment and Labour Relations (MELR), has signed a Memoranda of Understanding (MOUs) with 36 lead institutions to deal with child labour. The signing of the MOUs with the 36...
Minister for Gender, Children and Social Protection, Nana Oye Lithur, has admitted the government is faced with challenges in dealing with the menace of human trafficking in the country. She noted...
Engage Now Africa, an international NGO committed to ending poverty in Africa has launched a campaign dubbed “Trafficking-free Road Campaign” to empower leaders of the Ghana Private Road...
Many of us today seem to have forgotten the existence of slavery and the extent of its grimness and gruesome practices. Although slavery was abolished in the 19th century, the International Labour...
Ghana has been ranked the 34th country with the most modern slaves out of 167 countries in the world, with survey results estimating that there are 103,300 people enslaved in the country.
According...
Challenging Heights, a non-governmental organisation (NGO) based in Winneba in the Central Region rescued 41 children from trafficking on the Lake Volta in 2015. A total of 118 survivors were given...
