The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) wants Ghanaian journalists to ask critical questions on sexual reproductive health of disaster victims. The UNFPA opines that journalists by asking critical...
A GNA feature by Pomeyie Caroline Accra, Oct. 24, GNA - The sexual abuse of girls is quite prevalent in our society as the victims suffer mental and physical abuse as a result. The trend in...
Northern Regional Director of the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE), Razak Saani has condemned the prevalence of child marriage and sexual abuse in Muslim dominated communities of the...
Eight men were found guilty on Monday of waging what prosecutors called an "utterly abhorrent" campaign of sexual violence and intimidation against young girls in the Rotherham area of northern...
DRC: 'I can't tell my husband I was raped' Some mothers give positive names to the child born from rape Twenty-eight year old Carine* lives in Bunia, the capital of Ituri province in northeastern...
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...
Domestic violence cases decreased from 18,356 in 2014 to 16,272 in 2015, Chief Superintendent of Police Laurencia Wilhemina Akorli, the Coordinating Director of the Domestic Violence and Victims...
Residents of the Upper East region are in a deep state of shock after two men, said to be ex-convicts, robbed a 40-year-old woman at Estates in Bolgatanga, the regional capital, and still had an...
This week I wanted to write about the tidal waves sweeping along the coastal regions of Ghana from Keta to Biriwa; destroying canoes, outboard motors and in some cases, destroying houses. I...
A court in the Indian city of Mumbai has given the death penalty to a man for throwing acid at a woman at a busy railway station three years ago in what is being hailed as a landmark ruling. Preeti...
To prevent another domestic violence oriented death in her constituency, Member of Parliament (MP) for Ablekuma West, Mrs. Ursula Owusu Ekuful, has held a sensitization seminar for women in the...
Reshma Qureshi survived an acid attack two years ago - and began to make beauty tips videos as a way to campaign against the sale of acid. Now, she is flying to the US in her first overseas trip,...
At least 34,651 cases of rape were reported across India last year, statistics released by the country's National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) have revealed. The figures, released on Tuesday, showed...
After drawing widespread criticism, India's tourism and culture minister has backtracked after suggesting that female foreign tourists should not wear skirts in the country. Talking to journalists in...
A total of 2,807 men reported domestic abuse cases against their wives last year as against 3,143 the previous year.
Similarly, about 13,465 women also reported domestic violence cases against their...
Information reaching AccraReport.com indicate that the Ghana Police Service has begun investigations into revelations by Starr News’ Wilberforce Asare that some doctors at the Police Hospital are...
Available statistics show that a total of 1,296 girls in the country were defiled, while 335 other women were raped in 2014 alone, according to the Police Domestic Violence and Victims Support Unit...
Rape and other forms of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV) continue to persist across the African continent.
The military ideology that offers to rationalize the rise of SGBV during times of...
The well publicized campaign #bringbackourgirls helped to bring global attention to the often ignored issue of sexual and gender based violence (SGBV) during conflicts.
It has been months and our...
