Social Issues
African States Narrowly Fail To Stop U.N. Gay Rights Envoy Work
African states narrowly failed on Monday for a second time to halt the work of the first U. N. independent investigator...
Yahya Jammeh Must Step Aside
The people of Gambia went to the polls on December 1, 2016. And as a result, incumbent President Yahya Jammeh lost the...
Protesters Gather In Congo Capital As Kabila’s Mandate Expires
Protesters gathered in Democratic Republic of Congo's capital and at least one other city, defying a ban on...
Tensions Rise In DR Congo As President’s Final Term Expires Without Elections
Congolese President Joseph Kabila’s final term in office expires on Monday, with no election to choose a successor...
National Trust Holding Company Supports Lepers Aid Committee
The National Trust Holding Company (NTHC) has announced its commitment to increasing its corporate social...
Abuse of Ghanaian Women In Middle-East On the Rise – IOM Raises Alarm
The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) has raised concern about increasing reports of Ghanaian female...
IOM, Gov’t and CSOs Move To Protect Rights of Vulnerable Ghanaian Migrants
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) and seven key Ghanaian Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs)...
142 Sanitation Facilities Constructed In Six Districts In Northern, Upper East Regions
One hundred and forty-two gender and disability-friendly sanitation facilities have been constructed in six districts...
I Was Trained To Snatch People’s Husbands – Bobrisky
Nigeria’s Intersexual, bleaching advocate, born Idris Okuneye, popularly known as Bobrisky has opened up on his real...
MP Supports Sekyere Central District Health Directorate
The Sekyere Central District Health Directorate has taken delivery of items costing GHȼ155,000.00 to support quality...
Hundreds of US Gymnasts Allege Sexual Abuse
Hundreds of US gymnasts have come forward to say they were sexually abused by adults in the sport. A nine-month...
Greece Approves Christmas Bonus As France Challenges German Veto
Greece defied its creditors and approved plans on Thursday to give its battered pensioners a one-off Christmas bonus...
Egypt Church Bombing Toll Rises To 26 Dead
The death toll from last weekend's bombing of a Coptic church in Cairo has risen to 26 after an elderly woman died of...
Child Marriage Rampant In 5 Districts of Northern Region
Five districts in the Northern Region have recorded the highest rate of child marriage considered as a major human...
Australian High Commission, FON, Train Illegal Miners In Alternative Livelihood
The Australian High Commission in Ghana in partnership with Friends of the Nation, a socio-economic advocacy NGO in the...
Women March Against Husbands Over Unpaid Household Work
Scores of women in the Upper East region have taken to the streets, saying they have had enough of shouldering unpaid...
UK Prime Minister Congratulates Akufo-Addo On His Election Victory
British Prime Minister, Theresa May, has congratulated President-elect, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, on his “hard...
Electoral Systems Must Support the Vulnerable During Polls
The Child Rights International (CRI) has tasked Ghana’s Electoral Management Body to improve on conditions at polling...
Dylann Roof Guilty of South Carolina Church Killings
A white supremacist has been convicted of killing nine black worshippers in a church in South Carolina in a racially...