Minority Wants NAPO Grilled Over ‘stranded’ BECE Candidates

The Minister of Education, Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh, might soon face Parliament’s Education Committee following the refusal of the West African Examination Council (WAEC), to organize a special exams for some 200 students at Bunkpurugu in the Northern Region who could not write two papers in the just ended exams. The over two hundred students were … Read more

Allow ‘stranded’ Bunkpurugu BECE Candidates To Rewrite Now – Activist

Pressure is mounting on the West African Examination Council (WAEC), following its refusal to allow some 200 candidates to rewrite two papers they could not write during the just ended Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) at Bunkpurugu in the Northern Region. An advocacy group, Child Rights International, which has written to WAEC to allow the … Read more

Where’s the 12-Year-Old Boy In Major Mahama’s Death Saga – CRI Asks

Child Rights International (CRI) is demanding the whereabouts of a 12-year-old boy who was arrested in connection with the murder of Major Maxwell Adam Mahama. The boy was arrested at Manso Nkwanta days after the senior military officer was lynched by a mob at Denkyira-Obuasi on May 29. According to the Executive Director of Child … Read more

Where’s the 12-Yr-Old Boy In Maj. Mahama’s Death Saga – Child Rights International Asks

Child Rights International (CRI) is demanding the whereabouts of a 12-year-old boy who was arrested in connection with the murder of Major Maxwell Adam Mahama. The boy was arrested at Manso Nkwanta days after the senior military officer was lynched by a mob at Denkyira-Obuasi on May 29. According to the Executive Director of Child … Read more

Where’s the 12-Yr-Old Boy In Maj. Mahama’s Death Saga – CRI Asks

Child Rights International  (CRI) is demanding the whereabouts of a 12-year-old boy who was arrested in connection with the murder of Major Maxwell Adam Mahama. The boy was arrested at Manso Nkwanta days after the senior military officer was lynched by a mob at Denkyira-Obuasi on May 29. According to the Executive Director of Child … Read more

NGO Wants Migrant Child Beggars Repatriated Or Integrated

A child-centered civil society group, Child Rights International is calling on the government to repatriate all migrant kids begging on the streets of Accra if it cannot provide adequately for them. Child Rights international, in the first of its monthly child streetism observation report, noted that 2 to 7 children are found on the streets … Read more

NGO Wants Migrant Child Beggars Repatriated Or Integrated

A child-centered civil society group, Child Rights International is calling on the government to repatriate all migrant kids begging on the streets of Accra if it cannot provide adequately for them. Child Rights international, in the first of its monthly child streetism observation report, noted that 2 to 7 children are found on the streets … Read more

Electoral Systems Must Support the Vulnerable During Polls

The Child Rights International (CRI) has tasked Ghana’s Electoral Management Body to improve on conditions at polling stations for the vulnerable in society to participate unhindered in future elections. CRI also called for advocacy to educate the electorate to understand that some group of electorates including the vulnerable, the aged, people with disability and pregnant … Read more

Children Must Be Protected On Election Day

The Electoral Commission (EC) has been called upon to ensure that it prevents any suspected persons below the age of 18 from participating in the voting exercise. “Any person found to have engaged children in that manner must be dealt with as prescribed by law”, Mr Bright Appiah, Executive Director of Child Rights International has … Read more