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Human Rights Day 2020: Know how discrimination due to disease can adversely affect COVID patients

Human Rights Day is observed on the 10th of December, every year. This year, as the day is being observed amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. The theme for the day is ‘Recover...
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Human rights must be ‘front and centre’ of COVID-19 response: Secretary-General

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...
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A vote for women is a vote for growth

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...
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41% of women in politics have experienced gender-based violence – Survey

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,...
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Key facts on children’s health

  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...
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WOMEC trains 40 adolescent girls in gender based violence eradication

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...
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WOMEC marks 16 days of activism against gender based violence in Kpone

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...
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1 in 5 Women Point to Need for Engaged Network of Senior Women to Rise to Leadership Positions: Survey

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...
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How is climate change increasing HIV risks for women?

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...
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