Sunday, June 29, 2008

Child Trafficking in Ghana



From Modern Ghana:

The latest report that 390 child slaves are locked up at Krachi in the Volta Region, published in this paper yesterday, is indeed disturbing, if not disconcerting.


According to our correspondent, these children are under bondage, labouring for fishermen on five islands in the vicinity of Kete Krachi in the Volta Lake area.


These children, the report stated, are among 424 others registered by the Counter Trafficking Unit of International Organisation for Migration mission in Ghana.


Mr Eric Peasah, Counter Trafficking Project Manager, told our reporter that it costs a lot of money to rescue these children because 'we have to compensate the fishermen before they are released to us'.


The Times is indeed worried about the alarming rate at which child trafficking is going on in most parts of the country and called for urgent steps to check it from getting out of hand.


Some of these children mostly between 10 and 15 years are being used as housemaids, farmhands and in other difficult economic activities. Sexual abuse and corporal punishment are some of the hazards some of these children go through at the hands of their slave masters.


The problem of child trafficking can be attributed to a number of factors including poverty and broken homes.


It is on record that in July 2006, an eleven-member states of the Economic Commission for West African States (ECOWAS) including Ghana, entered into multilateral cooperation agreement to fight human trafficking in West Africa.


This led to the passage of the Human Trafficking Act 2005 in Ghana on December 9, 2005.

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4 comments:

  1. thank you very much for good commants

    Bathmate

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  2. thank you very much for good commants

    Bathmate

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  3. Anonymous4:44 PM

    institutions responsible 4 such course sh'l be strenthened.

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