A stakeholders' forum has been held in Tamale to draw government's attention to the need to adopt and implement the revised District Assemblies Common Fund (DACF) management guidelines to help cushion the lives of persons living with disabilities (PwDs). The forum, attended by PwDs, and representatives of the Department of…
Dr Augustina Naami, Head of Social Work Department, University of Ghana, has advised against portraying persons with disability negatively since such behaviuor perpetrates discrimination against them. Dr Naami said society needed to see their capabilities not their disability and that the use of derogatory, abusive, and discriminatory words in describing…
Madam Veronica Denyo Kofiedu, President of Women with Disability Development and Advocacy Organisation (WODAO), says strengthening the capacity of women, and especially those with disabilities, can solve the many inequalities in society. She disclosed this during a one-day Self-Advocacy workshop for 20 women with disability in the Ho Municipality organised…
Many elderly women are going through emotional stress and humiliation for being labelled as witches in many parts of the country and notably is the northern parts of Ghana where six witch camps are located to provide safe shelter for women who have been tortured and banished from their communities…
Deaf people with psychosocial disorders are facing a slew of human rights violations in Ghana as a result of their multiple conditions, according to a study by the Ghana National Association of the Deaf (GNAD). The GNAD study from May 2022 also found that deaf people with mental illnesses were…