Orphans Movement News Today

The Widows and Orphans Movement (WOM), a gender focused non-governmental organisation, has urged vulnerable people particularly widows, orphans, and disadvantaged groups to enroll onto the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS).

Some leading gender focused Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) have engaged stakeholders in Northern Ghana to court their support and seek inputs...

Fifteen gender champions have been trained to support women farmers in Ghana to mitigate climate risks and impact at a workshop organised in Kumasi.

Ms Faustina Pumora, a 30-year-old woman from Zua, a rural community in the Nabdam District of the Upper East Region, has suffered countless abuse at the hands of her husband. Ms Pumora, a mother of four, said her husband, on many occasions, had physically abused her but she had no…

Expedite Action On Gender Equality Panellists Urge Govt

"My son was an auto-mechanic apprentice for six years because I could not afford to pay for his passing out ceremony and to buy the tools for him to set up his own shop after his first three years of learning. “After we formed the Village Savings and Loans Association…

Speakers at a day’s forum have called for collective efforts towards dealing with sexual exploitation in the informal sector to safeguard the rights and dignity of particularly, those under apprenticeship.

Some Widows in the Upper East region have called on the Regional House of Chiefs to modify or abolish some cultural practices that are injurious to widows and their children. They said in this era of modernity where efforts were being made to promote inclusive development and participation, women, particularly…

The Widows and Orphans Movement (WOM), a gender-focused organisation, has called on the Government to decentralise human rights institutions to the district level to help fight Gender-Based Violence (GBV). Ms Fati Abigail Abdulai, the Executive Director, WOM, noted that, the lack of human rights institutions, particularly at the Commission on…

Women in the Upper East Region have called on the government to implement pragmatic measures and policies to end Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV) and protect the rights of women and girls. They said even though some efforts were made at curbing the phenomenon, it was still prevalent in the…