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  • Man jailed 20 years for impregnating 13-year-old stepdaughter

    A Circuit Court in Accra presided over by Her Honour Mrs Christiana Cann has sentenced a mason to 20 years in prison with hard labour for defining his 13-year-old stepdaughter.

    Eric Kofitse, pleaded guilty for defilement and was convicted on his own plea by the Gender-based Circuit Court.

    Chief Inspector Kofi Atimbire, the prosecutor in the case while presenting the brief facts to the court said the complainant is a driver, while the accused is a mason.

    According to him, the complainant is a driver who lives at Dansoman whilst the accused is a mason and lives at Christian village near Achimota.

    Chief Insp. Atimbire said the girl (victim) is 13 years old and a class four pupil.

    The prosecutor told the court that, the girl lives with the mother and the accused person who is the stepfather.

    He said since 2019, the accused person started having sex with the victim anytime the mother left home to trade. The accused person “then threatened her not to tell anyone about it else, he will stab her to death in the night when she was asleep.”

    According to the prosecutor, “Initially, the girl could not tell anyone for fear of being killed by the accused person.

    “When this continued for some time, she managed to inform the mother on three occasions but she (mother) told the daughter she will talk to her husband to stop.

    He told the court that, during the early part of March 2020, the accused again had sex with the victim who reported it again to the mother.

    “The mother got worried and sent the girl (victim) to her cousin in Nsawam. The victim who could not stand the persistent sexual attacks from her stepfather had to run to her biological father at Dansoman.

    “The victim later fell sick while she was with her father and was taken to the hospital where medical examination on 17 April 2020 proved that she was seven weeks pregnant.”

    It was then she told the father what she went through while she was staying with her mother. A complaint was lodged at the Achimota police station and accused was arrested.

    Accused admitted the offence. He was charged and put before the court.

     

    Source: starrfm.com.gh

  • 3 remanded for gang-raping 16-year-old girl

    The Koforidua District Magistrate Court “B” has remanded three young men for allegedly gang-raping a 16-year-old student.

    The incident occurred at Akyem Bososu in the Fanteakwa North District of the Eastern Region.

    The three accused persons; Collins Narttey,20, Eric Ansah alias Ramos,22 and Mohammed Ganiu,23, are on remand at the Cell of Domestic Violence and Victim Supports Unit at the Regional Headquarters in Koforidua.

    The fact of the case presented by Prosecutor Sargent George Defia is that the 16-year-old student is ex-girlfriend to one of the accused persons. He said on the fateful day of March 20, 2020 at about 10 pm, the accused persons lured the victim into a room where two left leaving one behind who had sexual intercourse with the girl.

    While the light was off, the second person sneaked into the room to have his turn. The two later firmly grabbed the victim for the third accused to also have his turn.

    A Cousin of the victim reported the incident to the Police after the victim narrated the ordeal. The accused were swiftly arrested by the Police.

    Source: starrfm.com.gh

  • Increase reportage on sexual, gender-based violence - Media urged

    The Executive Director of RISE Ghana, a non-governmental organisation, Mr Awal Ahmed, has called on the media to increase its reportage and advocacy on Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV) issues.

    He explained that it was also necessary for the media to produce stories “using the human rights angle” as well as highlighting individuals and institutions that are promoting best practices in the management of SGBV issues with the hope of addressing such issues in the home and in communities.

    Mr Ahmed made the call when he facilitated a day’s training workshop at Bolgatanga on SGBV reporting and advocacy, organised by RISE Ghana with funding from Oxfam Ghana and the Women in Law and Development in Africa (WILDAF) through the European Union.

    Ten participants from both the electronic and print media attended the workshop.

    They discussed issues such as SGBV policies, gender-based violence terminologies, why gender-based violence issues are under reported and how they are reported, ensuring privacy in gender-based violence reporting and issues to consider before publishing gender-based violence stories.

    The workshop was under a three-year project dubbed “Enough,” which is aimed at taking positive action to end SGBV in Ghana.

    Mr Ahmed further observed that “naming and shaming perpetrators of SGBV was also key in addressing SGBV in communities”.

    The director intimated that the media also had a major role to play in ensuring that survivors of SGBV were well informed about where and how they could seek redress and get justice.

    Project and activities

    In her presentation, the Project Manager, Ms Jaw-Haratu Amadu, said the goal of the Enough project was to create an enabling environment for girls and women to know, claim and exercise their rights to end SGBV in Ghana, Mali and Liberia.

    She stated that the media would be empowered while clubs would also be formed in the Pusiga District and Kassena Nankana Municipality to promote increased reportage and advocacy on SGBV.

    Peer review workshops, she noted, would also be organised for members of the Upper East Regional House of Chiefs on what they were doing to end SGBV in their respective communities.

    Trend

    According to Ms Amadu, statistics from the Domestic Violence and Victims Support Unit (DOVVSU) of the Ghana Police Service (GPS) indicated that reported rape cases increased from 236 in 2016 to 311 in 2017 across the country.

    Defilement cases, she said, also increased from 722 in 2016 to 793 in 2017 while cases of assault increased from 4,190 in 2016 to 5,019 in 2017 nationwide.

    She added that many of the 5.5 million adolescents in Ghana did not get urgently needed sexual reproductive health services and information.

    Source: .graphic.com.gh

  • One arrested for gang-rape

    The police have arrested a 23-year-old man believed to be part of a gang that raped a 19-year-old girl in the bush behind the UPSA hostel and Mpeasam, near Legon in Accra.

    The suspect identified as Kwesi Owusu, a mechanic apprentice, together with two other suspects, allegedly raped the girl in turns along an abandoned path which leads to the hostel.

    The Public Relations Officer of the Accra Regional Police Command, DSP Effia Tenge, said the incident took place at 9 a.m. on March 4, 2020 when the victim was on her way home from work.

    She said when the victim got to the pathway between the hostel and Mpeasem, she realized a man was following her so she decided to walk faster.

    The victim said while walking briskly, she saw two other men approaching her from the opposite direction and the suspects suddenly trapped her in the middle of the footpath.

    The three men grabbed and dragged her into the bush where they took turns to forcibly have sex with her.

    DSP Tenge said, after raping the victim, the three men abandoned her to her fate and bolted but the victim managed to walk to a nearby police station to lodge a complaint and was given a medical form for medical attention.

    She said on March 12 while investigations were ongoing, the police arrested Owusu and he had since been identified by the victim as one of the men who raped her.

     

    Source: dailyguidenetwork.com

  • India: Four gang-rapists to be hanged on Friday

    Four men convicted of the 2012 gang-rape and murder of a New Delhi student will be executed on Friday, the victim’s lawyer said after a court dismissed a final last-minute petition to delay the hangings.

    The brutal attack on Jyoti Singh aboard a city bus sparked nationwide demonstrations and shone a spotlight on the alarming rates of sexual violence in India.

    A trial court in Delhi, which had already postponed the hangings three times, on Thursday dismissed another plea to delay the executions scheduled for 5:30 am (0000 GMT) Friday.

    “The court rejected their petition and said they have exhausted all their legal rights. The hangings will take place on Friday at the scheduled time,” Singh’s lawyer Seema Kushwaha told reporters.

    Singh’s mother Asha Devi welcomed the ruling and said her “daughter’s soul will finally rest in peace”.

    The convicts had filed numerous petitions seeking delays to the executions.

    One challenged the rejection of his mercy plea by the president, the last remedy available to death-row convicts in India.

    The Supreme Court said it found no reason to interfere with the president’s decision and rejected his petition.

    Thursday’s ruling came amid widespread support for the executions.

    The media has also been full of grisly details about the hangings, including that the nooses will be smeared with banana and clarified butter to soften them.

    Singh, 23, was returning home from the cinema in the evening with a friend when they boarded a bus, thinking it would take them home.

    The five men and one juvenile knocked the friend unconscious and dragged Singh to the back of the bus and raped and tortured her with a metal rod.

    The physiotherapy student and the friend were then dumped on the road. Singh died 13 days later in a Singapore hospital from massive internal injuries.

    The suspected ringleader was found dead in his prison cell in a suspected suicide, while the 17-year-old juvenile spent three years in a detention centre.

    Almost 400 people are on death row in India, but no one has been executed since 2015.

    Source: France24

  • GES sacks Sawla SHS teacher for allegedly raping student

    A mathematics tutor at Sawla Senior High School has been dismissed by the Ghana Education Service (GES) for allegedly raping one of his female students.

    The dismissal of Ernest Ocloo, 34, and popularly known to his colleagues and the students as ‘OC100’, followed a letter by the directorates of education in the Sawla-Tuna-Kalba District as well as the Savannah Region, recommending the action.

    The sack letter was signed by the GES Director-General, Prof. Kwasi Opoku-Amankwa and copied the sector Minister, Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh, his deputies and directors, including the affected district and school.

    “Mr. Ernest Ocloo has been involved in sexual misconduct with several female students of Sawla Senior High School. He admitted to having sexual intercourse with a female student in the staff common room on the 11th of November, 2019 and claimed it was consensual,” the letter read in part.

    According to the letter, Ernest Ocloo is in the habit of harassing female students in the school following his open admission that he took another female student to pass the night in his room in town but denied they had sex.

    “By recent practice and precedent, such misconduct is punishable with termination of appointment. Management therefore recommends that the appointment of Mr. Ernest Ocloo should be terminated in line with section 63(iii) (b)(vi) page 86 as contained the code of conduct for Teachers and other workers of the Ghana Education Service…

    “It is the expectation of Management that this will act as a deterrence to all staff of the Ghana Education Service (GES) that such conduct will not be countenanced,” the letter cautioned.

    Meanwhile, checks indicate that apart from the Regional Education Directorate, neither the affected tutor, the school nor District Education Directorate received their copies of the letter.

    Background

    Ernest Ocloo reportedly went back to campus after school hours and invited his victim, name withheld, into the school’s staff common room where he allegedly raped her on the floor until she was bleeding.

    He then carried her to the girls’ hostel and abandoned her until her colleagues raised the alarm for help before she was sent to the Sawla Clinic for medicals.

    The teacher was later arrested by officers from the Sawla-Tuna-Kalba District Divisional Police Command after some days.

    He was put before the Bole Magistrate Court where he was charged for rape and detained in police custody.

    He was later granted bail waiting for recommendations from the Attorney-General’s Department for the next line of action.

     

    Source: myjoyonline 

  • 2 men tied and gagged girl with her pants before defiling her

    First accused, Rashid Munjameu, has been jailed 15 while the second accused who is yet to be identified, is on the run.

    The Wa Circuit has passed judgement on a chilling case in which two men violently assaulted and defiled a 15-year-old girl in the Upper West Regional apital.

    The court on Monday sentenced 26-year-old Rashid Munjameu to 15 years imprisonment in hard labour, for assaulting and defiling the Junior High School pupil.

    The Court presided over by Justice Baah Forson Adjapong, sentenced Munjameu to two years and 15 years imprisonment on both charges, which are to run concurrently.

    Principal State Attorney, Saeed Abdul Shakur, told the court that sometime in 2019, the accused person and his friend, who is on the run, offered to give a lift to the victim who was heading to the Naa Sidiki Bomi II Park to attend a programme.

    The girl accepted the offer and sandwiching her on the motorbike they drove her towards the park, but on reaching the Wa office of the Ghana Highway Authority, the two men failed to drop off the victim at her destination.

    According to the Principal State Attorney, they made a detour and headed to the Adabiya Basic School compound where the two accused persons assaulted and forcibly had sex with her.

    They took off the veil of the victim and used it to tie her hands and pushed her pants into her mouth to prevent her from shouting for help, before they had sex with her in turns.

    The two men after the act, left the helpless victim at the scene and fled with the motorbike.

    The distraught girl was, however, spotted by some passersby who helped her to get home.

    A report was lodged with the police leading to the arrest of Munjameu while the second suspect, who is yet to be named, is on the run.

    Munjameu pleaded guilty for the charge of assault and was convicted to two years imprisonment in hard labour. The court, however, continued the trial on the charge of defilement.

    After over a year of the trial, he was found guilty and sentenced to 15 years imprisonment in hard labour.

    Source: myjoyonline.com

  • Nigerian teenager kills man ‘who tried to rape her’ – Police

    A teenage girl (name withheld) at Aboru high school, Iyana Ipaja area of Lagos, allegedly killed a security guard who tried to rape her on Saturday.

    Bala Elkana, the Lagos police spokesperson said on Sunday that Babatunde Ishola, the 49-year-old security guard was stabbed to death by the 16-year-old girl at his residence at Ogundele street, Aboru.

    The young girl is a SS3 student of Aboru high school and resides on Olalemide Street, Aboru.

    According to a police statement, the teenager went to the house of the deceased on Saturday “to help him fetch water as he was living alone”.

    The late Ishola was a friend to the suspect’s father and she had always been helping him with house chores.

    Mr Elkana said “while she was helping out with the water, on 7/3/2020, he attempted raping her and she picked a knife from the room and stabbed him.”

    When the Oke Odo Police Station received the report, the corpse of the man was found lying in his pool of blood, the police said.

    “The corpse was evacuated to hospital for post mortem examination. The suspect was arrested and the knife she used in stabbing the deceased person was recovered,” Mr Elkana added.

    Meanwhile, Mr Elkana said the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu, has directed the immediate transfer of the case to the State Criminal Investigation Department Yaba for discreet investigation, while the young girl has been taken to the hospital for medical and forensic examination.

    Source: allafrica.com

  • Ghana National student accused of rape remanded

    The Ghana National College student who allegedly raped a first-year female student has been remanded after appearing before court today.

    The suspect Fredrick Ayisi was sent to the Cape Coast District Court 2 and was remanded into Police custody to reappear on 13-03-20 by Her Worship Gloria Mensah Bonsu.

    Reports say the suspect lured the girl to a location outside the school and forcibly had sex with her.

    Authorities of the school reported the matter to the police when it got their attention leading to his arrest.

    By law, a district court has no jurisdiction to try rape cases so the case will be sent to the High court.

     

    Source: starrfm.com.gh

  • Kenya university’s rape memo sparks anger

    A top Kenyan university has apologised after blaming “reckless” female students for becoming victims of rape.

    The security memo, which was sent to all students on Tuesday, was “insensitive”, the University of Nairobi’s vice-chancellor admitted.

    A petition started in response to the memo questioned how women could be blamed for their own rape.

    Popular media personality, Adelle Onyango, posted on Instagram: “This is what victim shaming looks like.”

    The 31-year-old, who is a rape survivor, told her 374,000 followers that she was outraged that the university had had no condemnation for the rapists.

    “This is what normalisation of rape looks like. And we will not stand for it.”

    The memo, signed by the head of security, said the rising number of cases of robbery and rape of university students in the capital, Nairobi, occurred at certain spots close to campuses.

    “In all the three rape incidences reported last year, a clear case of recklessness on the part of our female students can be drawn,” it said.

    It gave an example of a drunk student who was gang-raped on her way back in the early hours of the morning.

    It also included tips about how to keep safe in social gatherings, suggesting students always go out with trusted friends, memorise important numbers in case they lost a phone and never leave their drinks unattended.

    Adelle Onyango

    Adelle Onyango said that if men just stopped raping, rape would stop

    Ms Onyango, who is raising funds to launch Safe 24/7 to offer free therapy and support to survivors of rape, said such advice given to women was part of the problem.

    “Right now, where we go, what time we will go there, who we will go with, how we will get there, what we will wear etc is governed by how safe we will be and that is NOT normal neither is it OK!

    “If men just stopped raping us, rape will stop.”

    The Change.org petition, so far signed by nearly 1,500 people, said: “Misogyny has been time and again endorsed by the powers in play in Kenya, and that has got to stop.”

    Stephen Kaima, the university’s vice-chancellor, said students were advised to call the security department whenever they faced “security challenges during day and night”.

    According to a Kenya National Bureau of Statistics study from 2014, 14% of Kenyan women have experienced sexual violence.

    Source: BBC

  • 4 grabbed for gang-raping two teenagers

    A joint police operation has led to the arrests of four out of six men who are alleged to have detained two girls and sexually assaulted them in turns.

    The suspects have been identified as Benjamin Mensah, Vincent Avi, Samuel Otoo and Kingsley Chidi, a Nigerian.

    The two, who are currently at large, have been named only as Seth and Senior, according to the police.

    The victims, who are both 15 years old and in primary four, have been handed over to the Social Welfare Department for Counselling after being examined at the Police Hospital and confirming that they were sexually abused by all the suspects.

    The Accra Regional Police Public Relations Officer, Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Effia Tenge, said on February 8, 2020, parents of the girls reported to the Odorkor police about their disappearance from school.

    She said a publication was made to that effect and it was established that on February 7, an elder brother of one of the victims spotted them at Mallam Junction, Accra, and questioned them as to why they were not in school.

    DSP Tenge said the girls could not give any explanation and they were asked to go back to school.

    She said on February 13, the aunt of one of the victims received a telephone call from one of the suspects, Samuel Otoo, demanding money for the upkeep of the girls.

    “The police were immediately informed and on February 14 around 10:30 pm, a joint operation between the Gbawe Lafa Police and Nyanyano District Police Command led to the arrests of the four suspects from their various hideouts at Kasoa,” she narrated.

    She said police preliminary investigations revealed that the suspects left school on February 7 around 11 am to meet Seth and Senior at McCarty Hills.

    She said Seth and his gang then sent the girls to their Gomoa Nyanyano residence where they kept them and had sex with them in turns.

    It turned out that the examination revealed one of the victims was a virgin.

    “The police operation team grabbed the four suspects and rescued the victims in addition, but two of the suspects managed to escape arrest during the said operation,” she said.

    “The suspects are in our custody and we are still conducting investigations into the case and would apprehend any person involved in this criminal act,” she added.

    Source: Dailyguidenetwork.com

  • U/E: Suspect in rape, murder cases arrested

    The Upper East Regional Police has arrested a suspect with links to robbery, rape and murder cases in Koforidua.

    The suspect, Pius Anuduabil, had been on the police wanted list for the past two years.

    “He is currently in custody at the Upper East Regional Police Command as plans are underway to transport him to Accra for further investigations,” a statement from police said.

    The statement also noted that residents of Fumbisi, where the suspect is from, were pivotal in the arrest.

    “The Upper East Regional Police Command wishes to extend its sincere gratitude to the residents of Fumbusi for their cooperation and assistance leading to the maintenance of law and order in the entire Sandema District.”

    Find below the full statement

    Source: citinewsroom 

  • 5-year-old girl raped in grounds of US embassy in New Delhi

    A man has been arrested for allegedly raping a 5-year-old girl in the grounds of the US Embassy in New Delhi, according to police.

    The girl was playing outside the embassy’s staff quarters on Saturday before she “was lured and raped by a neighbor,” Eish Singhal, deputy commissioner of Delhi police, told CNN.

    The girl, who is the daughter of a housekeeper employed by the embassy, later identified the 25-year-old male suspect, who has been arrested and charged with rape, police said.

    “She was able to identify him point blank and there is no doubt over this,” Singhal said, adding that the suspect remains in custody.

    The incident has appalled embassy staff. In a statement to CNN, a US Embassy spokesperson said “we were deeply disturbed by the alleged misconduct.”

    “We promptly took action when we were informed of the allegation, and brought this matter to the attention of the police. Of course, we are cooperating fully with them,” the spokesperson said.

    An investigation has been launched, and a court date has yet to be set.

    In the wake of a brutal 2012 Delhi gang rape — which brought worldwide condemnation and still haunts the collective memory of women in India’s capital — lawmakers passed a series of amendments to the existing rape laws.

    The amended law lengthened prison terms and introduced the death penalty in cases in which the victim is younger than 12 years of age.

    In 2018, more than 33,000 cases of alleged rape were reported — roughly 91 cases each day, according to India’s National Crime Records Bureau — but experts say the real number is likely much higher, owing to the shame attached to sexual assault and the social barriers faced by victims.

    Source: cnn.com

  • 5-year-old girl raped in grounds of US embassy in New Delhi

    A man has been arrested for allegedly raping a 5-year-old girl in the grounds of the US Embassy in New Delhi, according to police.

    The girl was playing outside the embassy’s staff quarters on Saturday before she “was lured and raped by a neighbor,” Eish Singhal, deputy commissioner of Delhi police, told CNN.

    The girl, who is the daughter of a housekeeper employed by the embassy, later identified the 25-year-old male suspect, who has been arrested and charged with rape, police said.

    “She was able to identify him point blank and there is no doubt over this,” Singhal said, adding that the suspect remains in custody.

    The incident has appalled embassy staff. In a statement to CNN, a US Embassy spokesperson said “we were deeply disturbed by the alleged misconduct.”

    “We promptly took action when we were informed of the allegation, and brought this matter to the attention of the police. Of course, we are cooperating fully with them,” the spokesperson said.

    An investigation has been launched, and a court date has yet to be set.

    In the wake of a brutal 2012 Delhi gang rape — which brought worldwide condemnation and still haunts the collective memory of women in India’s capital — lawmakers passed a series of amendments to the existing rape laws.

    The amended law lengthened prison terms and introduced the death penalty in cases in which the victim is younger than 12 years of age.

    In 2018, more than 33,000 cases of alleged rape were reported — roughly 91 cases each day, according to India’s National Crime Records Bureau — but experts say the real number is likely much higher, owing to the shame attached to sexual assault and the social barriers faced by victims.

    Source: Myjoyonline.com

  • Man who defiled step-daughter says he mistook her for his wife

    A 35-year-old man who defiled and impregnated his step-daughter at Mankranso in Ashanti Region, has been slapped with a 20-year-jail term in hard labour by the Tepa Circuit Court.

    Abubakar Sadiq pleaded guilty to a charge of defilement and sought to suggest to the court, he had mistaken the victim for his wife.

    The victim who paralysed after giving birth, is struggling to survive a harsh rural environment, with little to eat.

    There is more in the attached report:

     

    Source: myjoyonline 

  • Homosexuality case against 47 Nigerian men delayed again

    A Nigerian judge has again adjourned the case against 47 Nigerian men accused of “public displays of same-sex affection” after the lead witness for the prosecution failed to appear in court.

    In Wednesday’s proceedings, Justice Rilwan Aikawa appeared annoyed that the prosecution was again unable to proceed, the BBC’s Mayeni Jones reports from Nigeria.

    The case has been adjourned at least three times because of procedural issues, Reuters news agency reports.

    The judge warned the prosecution that at the next sitting he would dismiss the case if it was not able to proceed.

    The suspects were arrested in an August 2018 police raid on a Lagos hotel. They face a 10-year jail term if convicted, Reuters reports.

    Source: bbc.com

  • 71-year-old man rapes disabled man for four years, court hears

    A 71-year-old man Christopher Fallon, faces up to 10 years in prison after he was found guilty of raping a disabled man repeatedly over a period of four years in the UK.

    Fallon, according to Metro.uk, has tricked the man in order to rape him for what the prosecutors believe could have been anything up to 150 times.

    Read:Nurse rapes patient on sickbed

    He was said to have raped the man with learning difficulties two or three times a week under cover of intimate massages which were meant to treat a chronic condition.

    The victim had so many difficulties that he could not see he was being abused.

    Read:Nigerian man rapes 10-year-old Ghanaian girl

    Fallon, however, denied the 18 counts of sexual abuse and told the court that he never massaged the man, let alone touch him indecently.

    He was convicted of all counts by a jury and remanded in custody so a probation officer can assess the danger he poses before his sentencing on February 17.

    Source: punchng.com

  • 700 rape cases reported this year in Namibia

    A total of 711 rape cases were reported this year, and out of these, 353 involved child victims.

    These figures were released by Namibian Police inspector general Sebastian Ndeitunga during the commemoration of Human Rights Day on Tuesday, where he said of the 358 adult rape victims, 345 were females and 13 males.

    He said the highest number of cases were recorded in the Khomas and Oshikoto regions, with 102 cases reported in each region, followed by the Ohangwena region with 89 cases reported.

    The commemoration held at the Old Location Cemetery in Windhoek also marked the 60th anniversary of the forceful removal of residents from the Old Location (near Pionierspark) to Katutura, and to recognise the role of women through Namibia Women’s Day.

    Read:Congo: nearly 7,000 cases of rape, violence reported in 2019

    International Human Rights Day commemorates the day on which the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948.

    Human rights are inherent to all human beings. They are part of fundamental freedoms enshrined in Namibia’s Constitution.

    The commemoration also marked the end of 16 days of activism against gender-based violence (GBV), which called for action against rape and gender-based violence and to raise awareness and establish interventions to fight against the normalisation of sexual violence and all other forms of violence against women.

    Ndeitunga said the police have embarked on several efforts to remedy the deteriorating GBV situation in the country, such as identifying best practices to enhance cooperation in fighting GBV, and conducting educational and awareness programmes aimed at the prevention of violence against women and children.

    Read:The Offense of rape in Ghana

    He added that the prevention of violence against women is a critical task for all stakeholders in Namibia in order to improve the livelihood and well-being of women and girls in the country.

    Ndeitunga said GBV bears a wider societal cost, as it threatens the quality between men and women, and leads to the physical and mental degradation of the social fabric of society.

    “Some of the impacts GBV has on society and the economy include injury, disability and even the death of the victim, and some victims are also at the risk of getting infected with sexually-transmitted diseases,” he stressed.

    Speaking at the same event, vice president Nangolo Mbumba said women in Namibia have increased their access to productive resources, such as land.

    Read:No justice for South African woman, raped while taking a nap

    “Over the past five years, 46,1% of women were resettled on commercial farms, compared to 51,4% males, under the national resettlement programme,” he stated.

    United Nations resident coordinator Rachel Odede highlighted the importance of youth in public decision-making, and in promoting dialogue and cooperation on the relationship between human rights, democracy and the rule of law.

    “We need the most courageous among us, the youth, who dare to speak up on behalf of those who have no voice. For there can be no democracy without a vibrant and pluralistic civil society,” she said.

    Odede thus called on the youth to be used as constructive agents of change, and to amplify their voices for their rights. She said knowing your rights means nothing without exercising them.

     

    Source: allafrica.com

  • Cop arrested, detained for rape

    The Ashanti Regional Police Command has ordered that a Police Chief Inspector at the Manso Datano Police Station in the Amansie South District of the Ashanti Region be arrested, detained and interdicted for allegedly raping a woman.

    The story was reported by a Kumasi-based radio station, Nhyira FM.

    Read: Woman narrates how she got raped at police station

    The Regional Police Command said it has commenced investigation into the matter and any subsequent update will be communicated to the public.

    The Command reiterated its stance of not shielding officers who involve themselves in criminality as is the policy of the Inspector General Police and the Police Administration.

    The police has advised the victim to report immediately to the Regional Police Headquarters to assist in the investigations.

     

    Source: classfmonline.com

  • University of Ghana student attempts to ‘rape’ sleeping female resident

    A gentleman believed to be a resident of the Alexander Adum Kwapong Hall in the University of Ghana has been apprehended by hall authorities after he allegedly attempted to rape a lady (another resident) in the hall.

    The incident is said to have happened around 11:50pm on Wednesday in the room of the lady, who, according to reports, was sleeping.

    Read: Nurse opens up on being raped six times in a day

    Some residents of the hall say they heard distress calls and rushed towards the source to offer help.

    Having been able to foil the alleged attempt to rape the lady, a teeming crowd had gathered outside the room waiting to take up their pound of flesh with the culprit.

    Read: Why I went public about being raped, 67 years later

    But for the timely intervention of hall authorities, the gentleman would have been mobbed by the highly incensed crowd.

    While the exact identities of both the alleged victim and culprit are not immediately known, it is also unclear whether there were other roommates in the room at the time of the incident.

     

    Source: universnewsroom.com

  • Girl, 11, who was declared missing found but defiled multiple times

    An eleven-year-old girl [name withheld] who went missing for a week, has been found at Nsawam, but in a state of trauma after her abductor allegedly defiled her multiple times.

    The victim went missing since last week, and her parents have been searching for her but all to no avail.

    Uncle of the victim told Rainbow Radio 87.5Fm that the victim left home without informing anyone.

    Over 60 young men and boys found beaten, chained and raped in another Nigerian Islamic school

    When asked why she left home, the victim reportedly told the parents she felt something asking her to move out of the house which she did.

    She later realised she was in Nsawam and lost her way back home.
    It was at this point that the suspect who reportedly defiled her five times took her home.

    It is the narration of the uncle that the suspect later handed the girl over to his auntie to assist her in selling bread along the street.

    Meanwhile, the police are yet to effect an arrest, the uncle told Kwabena Agyapong.

    According to him, when the police visited the location where the incident occurred, the suspect was not home.

    ”The police also failed to arrest the woman who subjected our daughter to the ordeal of selling bread along the street. They told us the key suspect will abscond, should they arrest the auntie,” he disclosed.

    By: Rashid Obodai Provencal