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The Barbados YouthADVANCE Corps (BYAC) recently hosted its Parents Orientation Meeting for Cohort 5 at the Ellerslie Secondary School. The September 17 programme for parents, guardians and trainees provided an opportunity for the Barbados YouthADVANCE Corps team to meet and share its mandate giving greater insight into the two-year dynamic programme.Director of the Barbados YouthADVANCE Corps, Hally Haynes, informed parents and trainees that the programme demanded a huge financial commitment fro...

Stakeholders, including Civil Society Organisations, academia, policy makers and regulators, have underscored the importance of social enterprise to national development and called for a policy to sanitise the ecosystem. The development of the Ghana Social Enterprise Policy (GSEP) will be in fulfilment of the Government’s commitment to promote and grow…

We are pleased to announce the “Geopolitics, Data Segmentation and Cross Border Data Flows” panel (October 6) at MediaNama’s PrivacyNama conference, to understand issues around cross border data flows, the status of global conversations, and global priorities for countries, as well as challenges regarding data segmentation and national concerns. We’ll be in conversation with Arindrajit […]

The Rule of Law and Empowerment Initiative also known as Partners West Africa Nigeria, in collaboration with Ford Foundation, has kick-started a campaign for  survivors-centred policing of gender-based violence cases in Nigeria. The Executive Director, Partners West Africa Nigeria (PWAN), Kemi Okentedo, stated that the group works in  the areas of security, governance and criminal […]

Daily news from Ghana and local Accra news stories including crime, health, education and general news by Daily Graphic.

Sokoto State Chairman of Gender Based Violence Response Team (GBV-RT) Rabiu Bello Gandi has decried that unnecessary delay in dispensing cases of Gender Based Violence, (GBV) Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) and Harmful Practices (HP) is an obstacle to achieving the needed milestone in halting the trend.

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Every day movement around the city is a gigantic task for Sharlin Akther, a person with a physical disability (cerebral palsy), where most of her right side is incapacitated and she has to balance herself in a special way to make her daily commute to the workplace. This is the story of almost all people with disabilities in Bangladesh. While the world may have advanced in many

Janet Fasaki, Coordinator, Most Beautiful Deaf Girl in Nigeria (MBDGN) pageant says the event is to drive awareness and promote rights of deaf persons in Nigeria. | Pulse Nigeria

The NCR is staring at a much-needed ban on domestic and industrial use of coal, but it is making many small business owners anxious. Here's why.