UNFPA Empowers Journalists On Reproductive Health For Disaster Victims
The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) wants Ghanaian journalists to ask critical questions on sexual reproductive health of disaster victims. ...
Tag: violence against women
Are Child Abuse Cases Really Reducing?
A GNA feature by Pomeyie Caroline Accra, Oct. 24, GNA - The sexual abuse of girls is quite prevalent in ...
Child Marriages Prevalent In Muslim Communities – NCCE
Northern Regional Director of the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE), Razak Saani has condemned the prevalence of child marriage ...
Eight Convicted of Child Sex Offences In Northern England
Eight men were found guilty on Monday of waging what prosecutors called an "utterly abhorrent" campaign of sexual violence and ...
‘I Can’t Tell My Husband I Was Raped’
DRC: 'I can't tell my husband I was raped' Some mothers give positive names to the child born from rape ...
Over 150 GPRTU Leaders Empowered To Fight Human Trafficking
Engage Now Africa, an international NGO committed to ending poverty in Africa has launched a campaign dubbed “Trafficking-free Road Campaign” to empower leaders of the ...
2,807 Men Beaten By Their Wives In 2015 – DOVVSU
Domestic violence cases decreased from 18,356 in 2014 to 16,272 in 2015, Chief Superintendent of Police Laurencia Wilhemina Akorli, the ...
Ex-Convicts Rape 40-Year-Old Woman
Residents of the Upper East region are in a deep state of shock after two men, said to be ex-convicts, ...
Ama Ata Aidoo, Your End Has Come
This week I wanted to write about the tidal waves sweeping along the coastal regions of Ghana from Keta to ...
Acid Attacker Slapped With Death Sentence In India
A court in the Indian city of Mumbai has given the death penalty to a man for throwing acid at ...
Report Domestic Violence, It’s A Crime
To prevent another domestic violence oriented death in her constituency, Member of Parliament (MP) for Ablekuma West, Mrs. Ursula Owusu ...
Acid Attack Survivor To Model
Reshma Qureshi survived an acid attack two years ago - and began to make beauty tips videos as a way ...
More Than 34,000 Cases of Rape Reported In 2015
At least 34,651 cases of rape were reported across India last year, statistics released by the country's National Crime Records ...
Mahesh Sharma Retreats From ‘skirts’ Comment
After drawing widespread criticism, India's tourism and culture minister has backtracked after suggesting that female foreign tourists should not wear ...
2,807 Men ‘Beaten’ by Wives Last Year
A total of 2,807 men reported domestic abuse cases against their wives last year as against 3,143 the previous year. ...
Video – Police Hospital Doctors Issuing Fake Rape Report for GHC150
Information reaching AccraReport.com indicate that the Ghana Police Service has begun investigations into revelations by Starr News’ Wilberforce Asare that ...
1,296 Girls Defiled, 335 Women Raped in 2014 – Police Domestic Violence and Victims Support Unit (DOVVSU).
Available statistics show that a total of 1,296 girls in the country were defiled, while 335 other women were raped ...
The Underlining Military Ideology Associated with Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV)
Rape and other forms of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV) continue to persist across the African continent. The military ideology ...
#BringBackOurGirls and Violent Exploitation of Women in Conflict Zones
The well publicized campaign #bringbackourgirls helped to bring global attention to the often ignored issue of sexual and gender based ...