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Today we join others around the world to mark the 16th World Day Against the Death Penalty.  The 2018 World Day is focused on raising awareness of the inhumane living conditions of people sentenced to death. The World Coalition Against the Death Penalty reports that many testimonies document the inhumane living conditions that people sentenced to death endure.  Even though ...

There is an urgent need for a drastic change in the food and agriculture system in sub-Saharan Africa if the region is to achieve the sustainable development goal on hunger, a Plant Breeding Professor Eric Danquah has said. Prof. Danquah who is founding Director of the West Africa Center for Crop Improvement (WACCI) at the University of Ghana says it ...

National Executive Council of Mental Health Society of Ghana is calling on Corporate Ghana and Religious Bodies to consider supporting mental health by contributing to the Mental Health Fund as part of their corporate social responsibility.   The Council is convinced that when corporate Ghana supports mental health, the intervention would immensely help raise the standard of living of people ...

The Deputy Chairman of African Union (AU) Commission, Ambassador Kwesi Quartey has asserted that adequate, accurate and reliable data are essential and strategic drivers of socio- economic growth and globalization in Africa. “In our quest for sustainable growth and effective globalization, adequate, accurate and reliable information and data are essentially new raw materials required for effective growth and economic integration ...

Abantu for Development, a women’s right advocacy group has launched a project meant to strengthen advocacy on national commitments towards the passage of an affirmative Action law in Ghana. Launched on the theme ’Strengthening Advocacy for the Passage of an Affirmative Action Law in Ghana, ’the project’s ultimate goal is to secure the best gender equality outcomes for all citizens ...

More is demanded from the world to make comprehensive policy shifts and investments to reach the goal of universal sanitation coverage by 2030. This goal, where every person in the world has access to toilets that can safely contain excreta, could fail today during the launch of the first global guidelines on sanitation and health, according to its release copied ...

Dr Owen Laws Kaluwa, the World Health Organisation (WHO) Country Representative, has called on the Government to develop and strengthen evidence-based programmes to address the mental health needs of young people. He urged the Government to put in place deliberate interventions, with the support of national policy-makers and programme managers, to prioritise and advocate for funding to finance the mental ...

Ghana has been ranked the seventh wealthiest country in Africa with a total wealth of 63 billion dollars (US$bn 63) as at December 2017. The figures were contained in The AfrAsia Bank Africa Wealth Report 2018 published in September. The report covers wealth, luxury, prime property and wealth management trends in Africa from 2007 to 2017, with projections to 2027. Ghana’s ...

The Sekondi/Takoradi Metropolitan Assembly (STMA) has recorded an increase in maternal deaths at the various health facilities in the metropolis. A report compiled by the assembly attributed the deaths to bleeding after birth, late reporting, religious beliefs, unsafe abortion and hypertension. The report indicated that five of the women were referred to Effia-Nkwanta Regional Referral Hospital from other surrounding districts. ...

Mr Adama Dieng, the Special Adviser to the United Nations Secretary-General on Genocide Prevention, has said that early warning and respect for human rights are critical components in conflict prevention and mitigation. He said that violent conflicts, which resulted into atrocity crimes, did not just happened overnight; adding that there were always early signs of conflicts. “When the warning signs ...