Despite the many legislative interventions put in place by Ghana’s Parliament, against domestic violence which reflects the global efforts in pushing for women’s rights to be recognized as human rights, there is still a high rate of such incidents being recorded. This can be partly attributed to some cultural beliefs that the man has express…
Some years ago, begging in Ghana was rare. Now, begging, especially in the capital cities, is happening on every street corner and every pavement in the central business districts, particularly Accra despite the law that makes it an illegal venture. It’s often perpetrated in the full glare of the police, the very institution mandated to…
Ghana as a sovereign state has as a set of regulations as enshrined in the 1992 constitution, the Children’s Act 1998. These rules are to “reform and consolidate the law relating to children, to provide for the rights of the child, maintenance and adoption, regulate child labour and apprenticeship, for ancillary matters concerning children generally”…
I had been asked to go out and get some things for the house and I was angry. Who would send anyone out under this scorching sun? If Sunday school had taught me anything, I knew the Ghanaian sun was just a replica of how hades might be. Then I saw him, with little beads…