WHAT THE PEOPLE SAY

INTRODUCTION: Shocking statistics from the Ghana Statistical Service reveal that 1.9 million Ghanaian children between the ages of 5 and 17 are engaged in work that is harmful to their mental and physical development. Large numbers of these children have been separated from their families and are engaged in perilous work such as transportation of heavy loads, drug trade, commercial sex exploitation, fishing, domestic services, and stone quarrying with many of them held in debt bondage in the capitals of the regions across the country. The figures were disclosed at a media launch of the World Day Against Child Labour in Accra organized by the Ministry of Employment and Labour Relations in partnership with the International Labour Organisation (ILO), the United Nations International Children Emergency Fund, the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) and other Civil Society Organisations. Please read below the opinion of policy makers and child labour officers about the child lab...

Introduction: Street in front of the Christian Methodist School is flooded The recent downpour of heavy rainfall in Ghana has caused great discomfort to many people. Destruction to life and property has been recorded in many parts of Greater Accra, with five people reported dead in the Central Region. In this photo, you find the street in front of the old campus of the Christian Methodist School, flooded by the rainfall. Well, we have gone directly to the people to find out about their frustrations and what they have as solutions to the problem of perennial flooding of some areas in the capital. Please read What The People Say below; Vida Sulemana Vida Sulemana “We have suffered, really suffered as a result of the heavy downpour of rains today, Thursday (9 th June, 2016) and again we have lost our belongings. Almost all of my clothing and electronic gadgets have been destroyed. I left my workplace and headed home as soon as the rains started and as you can see ...

War drums are beating at La in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana, and it could lead to some bloody clashes between the civilian population and the Ghana Armed Forces. According to the La people, lands that were given out for military purposes are currently being repackaged and sold to foreign companies and private businessmen without due regard to the original owners of the land. Read more here: http://www.modernghana.com/ news/684062/tension-at-la-as- community-clash-with-military- over-land.html The Coalition of La Youth Associations and the Board of Trustees of the Dadekotopon Development Trust have asked the Ghana Armed Forces and the Government of Ghana to return all parcels of land that are no longer intended for the purposes for which they were first acquired. They have also accused the Military of “fomenting acts of Terror and brutalities against the local people.” Please read below the views of the La people about the loot of their lands by the Ghana Armed Forces;...