Parents have been advised to desist from encouraging their children especially, adolescent girls, to go into prostitution. Alhaji Ibn Ibrahim, Chairman of Champions of Change, a child advocacy initiative of the Defense for Children International (DCI Ghana), said everybody had a critical role to play in the development of children, but the role of parents formed a greater percentage. Speaking …

Bright Wireko-Brobbey, Deputy Minister for Employment and Labour Relations (MELR), has commended Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) and NGOs for their continued advocacy roles in the elimination of child labour, especially in cocoa growing communities. He said the government was very mindful of the contributions by CSOs and other partners in the areas of child welfare, in tackling the child labour …