The UN chief made the appeal in his message for Human Rights Day, observed on Thursday. “People and their rights must be front and centre of response and recovery. We need universal, rights-based frameworks like health coverage for all, to beat this pandemic and protect us for the future”, he said. Violations hurt us all The...
There cannot be any excuse for the low representation of women in the Parliament of Ghana. Currently, women occupy 37 out of the 275 seats in Parliament. This represents only 13.5% of members in parliament. This is far below the world’s average of 23% It also falls short of the UN recommendation of at least...
The Gender Centre for Empowering Development (GenCED) on Tuesday December 1, 2020 launched a research report on “Violence Against Women Within Political Parties”. The research, which covered the operations, structures, and processes of the major political parties in Ghana (NDC, NPP, CPP, PNC, PPP) made some revelations about issues that hamper women’s full political processes...
Key facts on children’s health • In 2019 an estimated 5.2 million children under 5 years died mostly from preventable and treatable causes. • Children aged 1 to 11 months accounted for 1.5 million of these deaths while children aged 1 to 4 years accounted for 1.3 million deaths. Newborns (under 28 days) accounted...
Forty adolescent girls in Kpone have received facilitators’ training on the eradication of gender based violence in the country. The beneficiaries were drawn from Kpone Methodist Basic A, Kpone Methodist Basic B, Kpone Presby Basic A and Kpone Presby Basic B schools. The training organized by a non-government organization, Women, Media and Change (WOMEC), formed...
The Women, Media and Change (WOMEC), a non-governmental organization has organised a forum to sensitise adolescent girls living in Kpone, a suburb in Tema as part of its efforts to mark the 16 Days of activism against gender-based violence, last week. It was on the theme ‘16 days of activism against gender-based violence: implications for...
Reports by the World Economic Forum show that countries with women leaders seem to have fared better at handling the Covid-19 pandemic compared to their male counterparts. This is just one more instance where women workers have demonstrated striking leadership qualities. Yet, the overall women participation in the workforce, especially in the higher leadership roles,...
When it comes to HIV risks for women, researchers found that natural disasters force vulnerable women to take any chance to secure resources – whether through transactional sex or engagement in early marriage Currently, 80% of new HIV infections among adolescents are from girls – who are eight times as likely as boys to be living with...
I want to talk about an area that is little known, often misunderstood, yet promising – what we know about the links between gender-based violence and social protection. We know that the period of history we are living through has surfaced severe challenges for girls and women. Alongside the health pandemic and lockdown measures globally,...
Early pregnancy and childbirth The leading cause of death for 15-19 year-old girls globally is complications from pregnancy and childbirth. Some 11% of all births worldwide are to girls aged 15–19 years. The vast majority of these births are in low- and middle-income countries. The UN Population Division puts the global adolescent birth rate in...
