Human Rights

Civil Liberties: Ghana has had freedom of speech since 2012 and Freedom of press. People in Ghana have the right to their own civil liberties. In Ghana ,when a person is arrested they will be brought to a court within forty-eight hours and have to be seen within 14 days of being put under arrest. They are allowed to have a way of promoting their rights and a speedy fair trial. Ghana has a very high tolerance of religion and lets people express their religion openly. Also some of the religious holidays that are practiced in Ghana are accepted by the state and they have a freedom of religion that always you to believe in the god that you want to believe in.

Womens Issues Statistics suggest that the maternal health of women in Ghana is quickly declining and is slow to change anytime soon. Children, not only young women, are in danger of being thrust into sex trade. Ghana’s prostitution capital is Accra. There are in fact many law that prohibit the act, but women often do not report anything in fear of what will be done to them. An estimated 30,000 children are believed to be in human trafficking. Girls 12 and older are often sold by their fathers for money. The daughters are not allowed to be bought back however. Girls who try to escape from their trafficking homes, if found, are raped and then killed. There are several organizations who help these girls, who then provide them will a home and finding their family.

Worker’s Rights All Workers should be able to work in a safe environment and under healthy conditions. Workers should also receive equal an equal amount of money for the appropriate amount of work they do. And finally workers should have the time to rest and have reasonable amounts of work time and have breaks for holidays. Children in Ghana aged 9 to 17 are working in cocoa harvesting which exposes them to physical and chemical hazard without proper training. 62.5% of children ages 5 to 17 of both genders are doing some type of agricultural work, 73.6% of those children are in rural areas. An estimated 21.7% of children in Ghana are a part of some type of economic activity.