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Newsletters - Violence and the Family

 

Ghana

Some examples of violence against children are:

  • Violent methods of correcting children eg beating with a cane or hand
  • Permanent injuries eg cutting of ears, burning of back with hot metals or electric iron
  • Child dumping by desperate mothers
  • Child neglect by irresponsible parents
  • Neglected orphans
  • Traumatised children who are truants from home.

In Ghana, apart from the normal legal system, there has been established a Commission on Human Rights and Administration of Justice (CHRAJ) to investigate complaints of fundamental rights and freedom, injustice, corruption and the abuse of power. There is also the Women and Juvenile Unit of the Police (WAJU) which investigates and prosecutes cases of violence against women and children.

 

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