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Ministry Urges Support For Development Of Girl-Child Programmes

The Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection has urged Ghanaians to actively participate in this year’s International Day of the Girl Child celebration, focused on providing better education on...
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Gender Department organises debate to celebrate Girl-Child Day

A thrilling debate to highlight challenges and prospects of the empowerment of girls in the country has been held as part of activities to celebrate this year’s International Day of...
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International Day of the Girl Child

International Day of the Girl celebrates the importance, power, and potential of girls around the world. It is also a day to highlight girls’ needs and the particular problems they can face, and drive efforts that meet these needs...
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The impact of mistreatment during childbirth

The impact of mistreatment during childbirth Mistreatment during childbirth may have both direct and indirect impacts on the woman and her baby. For example, a WHO qualitative study in Nigeria...
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Absa Bank supports Ghana Girl Guides ‘Be Inspired Sessions’ for young women

Absa Bank Ghana has partnered the Ghana Girl Guides Association (GGGA) to empower young women on how to make sound financial decisions. The GGGA ‘Be Inspired’ weekly sessions which have...
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What can be done to better support women pursuing their PhDs in Africa

A Doctor of Philosophy – commonly known as a PhD – is the highest level of academic training. It allows the degree holder to teach the chosen subject at university, conduct research...
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Violence against women: Africa’s shadow pandemic

The number of cases of sexualized violence and femicide in Africa has risen during the Covid-19 pandemic. Will those in power finally grow aware of the extent of the problem?...
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COVID-19: Only one in eight countries worldwide have measures in place to protect women against social and economic impacts, new data shows

Most of the world’s nations are not doing enough to protect women and girls from the economic and social fallout being caused by the COVID-19 crisis, according to new data...
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As COVID-19 exposes the fault lines of gender equality, a strong focus on violence against women at the UN General Assembly

With alarming rise of domestic violence reports during the pandemic lockdowns from millions of women worldwide, UN Women convened today a high-level meeting with the UN Secretary-General António Guterres, Member...
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