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Parents and law enforcement agencies have been advised to be on a high alert especially at Beaches, Hotels and other tourism destination to save unsuspecting Ghanaian children from commercial sexual exploitation by foreign Nationals. The caution follows an observation of a latest upsurge in commercial sexual exploitation of Children in the country. “Child Sex Tourism(CST) as a form of commercial ...

In spite of  efforts  being  put in place by governments, Development partners, civil  society   and  other relevant  stakeholders  to educate the populace on  gender  based- violence, there  is  no denying  the  fact  that  the menace  continue to prevail in the country, particularly in  most rural communities and  in the  northern part of  Ghana. In 2008,38.7 percent of Ghanaian women between ...

In April 2016 the world was hit by one of the biggest scandals the hit the Global financial sector. The Panama Papers! This scandal seemingly happened far away from the shores of Ghana, this may be going on far away from our shores but we are usually the most losers, because we are usually the most exploited in this global ...

The restoration of trainee nurses allowance has once again generated a lot of hullabaloo about nothing. The trainee Nurses Allowance was scrapped by the previous President John Mahama and his social democratic administration for reasons that are not clear to us. It was therefore welcome news to many aspiring nurses when the NPP made a campaign promise to restore these ...

Ghana’s effort to save its natural environment from incessant degradation may become a fruitless endeavor if the latest sand weaning craze is not stopped as a matter of urgency. Public Agenda  can  report that some small scale Miners  in the Ashanti region who  have  been  pushed out  of  business following  government moratorium  on  mining have now found solace in weaning ...

Oilwatch Africa has made a radical proposal to African countries to move away from the use of fossil fuels to renewable energy; arguing that the continuous exploitation of fossil fuels is impacting negatively on primary economies including agriculture, fisheries, livelihoods and  the  environment. The Environmental civil Society group insist that “leaving fossils fuels in the ground and replacing with renewable ...

The Ghana Human Rights NGOs Forum , KASA Initiative Ghana in Partnership with the Universal Periodic Review (UPR)  and  InfoAfrica-Kenya have  added  their voices to calls on government to amend the Persons with Disability Act   715 of 2006 to conform to the United  Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities( UNCRPD). The Ghana Human Rights NGOs Forum expressed ...

  BLACK HISTORY MONTH was founded by Akyaaba Addai-Sebo, former Operations Manager of London’s Notting Hill Carnival, the world’s second largest open-air street festival after Brazil’s Rio Carnival. The British Prime Minister, Theresa May, in a message released to open the month-long celebrations and reflections wrote: “Today, in every walk of life, from business to politics, sport to culture, there ...

The Northern Savannah Ecological Zone(NSEZ) that boast of 63 districts representing 54.4 % of Ghana’s total land mass, doesn’t only account for the largest share of Ghana’s eco-tourism resources. The Northern Savannah Zone also has rich potential in terms of historical, archaeological, monumental, cultural and community tourism, among others. Indeed, the tourism potential of the NSEZ so far captured in ...

The Nigerian Association of Hydrogeologists, NAH, has warned of impending water crisis by 2020 because of poor management of groundwater basins. The President of the association, Ehidiamhen Olumese, disclosed this on Sunday in Ilorin while addressing journalists after the association’s National Executive Meeting, NEC. Mr. Olumese said the impending crisis could be avoided by the acquisition of both hydrological data ...