Sulemana Zakaria,GNA
Gushegu (N/R), Dec 04, GNA - Pan African Organisation for Research and Protection of Violence on Women and Children (PAORP-VWC) has held a day's stakeholders’ workshop on promoting and protection against child trafficking, early child marriage and forced marriages in the Gushegu Municipality of the Northern Region.
It was on the theme: "Child Right Promotion and Protection in the Municipality: The Roles of Community Members, Traditional Authorities, Stakeholders’’, and sponsored by Kinder Rechte Afrika (KRA) of Germany.
Participants at the workshop included; parents, security agencies, traditional authorities, representatives from the Ghana Education Service, the Ministry of Health among others.
Dr Peter Ndonwie, Programme Director of PAORP-VWC, who spoke during the workshop, said as part of measures to augment government's efforts to protect children, a lot of packages would be rolled out by the organisation, including; the establishment of a community radio station in the area.
He said the radio station would be used to broadcast syndicated programmes, especially in advocating against all forms of child abuses and share ideas, experiences and best practices, highlighting on attitudinal change in behaviour in the municipality and the country as a whole.
Mr Mutaka Abdul- Razak, an Assistant Director at the Gushegu Municipal Assembly, speaking on behalf of the Municipal Chief Executive, said the assembly was collaborating with individuals and other NGOs to institute measures to curb the high rate of child marriage and other anti-social vices
He expressed delight towards the intention of PAORP-VWC to establish a community radio station in the area, to broadcast prime-time syndicated programmes on child trafficking and child marriages and commended them for the initiative.
Mr Jafaru Mohammed, Gushegu Municipal Director of CHRAJ, in a presentation on national laws and policies and international laws, said the Article 28 of the 1992 Constitution established the rights of the child and provided the framework for the enactment of appropriate legislation to protect children on their rights.
He added that the Children’s Act, 1998 (Act 560) and other Acts provided for the right of the child and covered issues of parental duties and responsibilities, maintenance, adoption and fosterage, and protected children from exploitative labour and child marriage, and stipulated responsibilities for care and protection of children.
Ms Dumba Paulina, a Public Health Nurse at the Gushegu Municipal Hospital, called for intensive health education on Family Planning issues at both the junior high and the senior high schools in the Municipality and said most of the children at these levels were vulnerable.
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