The Universal Declaration of Human Rights Article 4 says that, "No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms".
In October, Ghana Media Advocacy Programme (G-MAP), a civil society organization, expressed worry over a research it carried out in Ghana, which revealed an increase in child-related abuses, including child labor, child trafficking, child labor, child abuse and child migration.
In similar development, Ghana has been sited in the United for Human Rights website as a country that encourages children into the fishing industry.
According to the website, "In Ghana, children five to fourteen are tricked with false promises of education and future into dangerous, unpaid jobs in the fishing industry". This has been a scar in our national leadership.
The statement signed by Abdul-Kudus Husein, Communication Executive
Of G-MAP, and made available to Ghana News Agency (GNA), said “ These children can be seen on farmlands in the Northern Regions, seashores along the coastal belt, cocoa and the forest areas of the middle belt as well as homes of well-to-do families
Again, he stressed that along the country’s coast in particular, children worked in hazardous and life-threatening conditions at the expense of their education.
Also in November, 2008 it was reported on Myjoyonline.com that,"about 20 children die in Ghana every year as a result of abuse and neglect, Mr John Hackman, an advocate of the rights of children, disclosed at a forum in Takoradi".
During the erstwhile Kuffuor-led-NPP-administration, the government promised to help reduce incidence of children being lured into the Cocoa business and the fishing industry. However, within two to three years, our national leadership has failed in it's bid to implement without hesitation, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Ghana, like any other African country ought to come clean of human right abuses which has helped in denting the image of the over 53 years old country.
We have a rendezvous with destiny and future. And the time is now!!!
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