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Ghana is a country of origin, transit, and destination for women and children subjected to trafficking in persons, specifically forced labor and forced prostitution. [2] The nonconsensual exploitation of Ghanaian citizens, particularly children , is more common than the trafficking of foreign migrants . [ 2 ]
On 20 May 2021, a group of LGBT+ rights advocates (16 women and five men) held a meeting in the city of Ho in the southeastern Volta Region of Ghana. Meeting at a hotel for nurses and midwives, the group had met to share information on documenting LGBT+ rights violations in Ghana and had brought a number of flyers with them, including ones on "Coming out" and "All about Trans."
The Bureau of National Investigations, previously known as the "Special Branch," is a counterintelligence and internal security agency, composed of civilian personnel whose role is to establish close surveillance over opponents of the Republic of Ghana and the Government of Ghana. [5]
The murder of Kujoe Bonsafo Agyei-Kodie, an exchange student from Ghana, was carried out by Alexander Kinyua, in Joppatowne, Maryland, United States. Kinyua ate Agyei-Kodie's organs in an act of cannibalism. [1] [2] The killing came after Kinyua was released on bail following a separate brutal attack. [3]
The Ghana Police Service raided Angel TV in 2016 after the local subsidiary of MultiChoice, which owns SuperSport, protested that Angel TV was airing Euro 2016 and the 2016 Summer Olympics without permission; SuperSport was the rights holder for Ghana. [2] In August 2021, a fire gutted the studios of Angel TV, damaging all of the channel's ...
United Television Ghana Limited (UTV Ghana) is a private, free-to-air television broadcaster in Ghana. It was launched in 2013 by The Despite Group of Companies, headed by Mr. Osei Kwame Despite. UTV Ghana airs and produces a variety of television programmes including news bulletins, dramas and successful telenovelas, films and other entertainment.
Ghana last executed a criminal in 1993. The method of execution is by firing squad. [1] It is considered "abolitionist in practice." [2] Capital punishment was a mandatory sentence for certain ordinary criminal offenses until 2023. [3] Seven new death sentences were handed down in 2021, while 165 people were on death row in Ghana at the end of ...
Crime in Ghana by type (4 C, 1 P) + Crimes in Ghana by decade (6 C) Crimes in Ghana by year (13 C) C. Ghanaian criminals (2 C, 2 P) P. Prisoners and detainees of ...