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News Items

 
  • GHANA: Profile of a child sex worker. IRIN News, 20 March 2008. This is the story of 13 year-old Bernice, one of the many children in Ghana who have been driven away from parents too poor to care for them, ended up on the street with no education or money, and been recruited into Ghana's booming child sex trade.
  • FGM accomplices to face Ghana's tougher law. Africast, 29 May 2007. Parliament has debated the merits of a bill that seeks to change the reference "female circumcision" to female genital mutilation to widen the scope of the offence after a motion was moved for the Second Reading of the bill.

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Last updated:
5 June, 2008

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