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PURPOSE OF THE PROGRAM This sensitization program is being organised in collaboration with Network for women’s Rights in Ghana and the Regional Focal Point and members for Network for women’s rights in Ghana, Ashanti Region, to sensitize women traders at the Race Course market on their rights and well as their responsibilities so as to […]

Child marriage is injurious to the health OF THE CHILD  Girls between 10 – 19 years face the risk of NOTE: Child marriage occurs when one or both of parties involved in marriage are below the age of 18yrs. It is mostly characterized by age gap difference. It can also be marriage/union between teen-age peers.

Ghana has ratified various international conventions and key international instruments which seek to promote children’s human rights on issues relating to child marriage. Prominent among these are Convention on the CONVENTION ON THE ELIMINATION OF DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN (CEDAW, 1980), CONVENTION ON THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD (CRC, 1990) THE African Charter on the Rights

Most women in Ghana do not own land. This is especially of those in patrichical inheritance cultures. Even in that state, they produce most of the basic foods we find on daily menu. They do so under strenuous conditions as most of them have to combine child care, right on the farm. There is intermittent

Women in the northern parts of Ghana fetch wood for domestic fuel. Most of them even make a living by cutting wood especially the Shea tree to burn charcoal and gather same as fuel for sale. Trucks leave these villages full of fuel wood and charcoal for towns and cities. That is why Ups Avenue

We are calling all philanthropists to come on board and support us to give a better Housing facilities for the poor.