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BY: Rebecca Quaicoe Duho
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Statistics from the Domestic Violence and Victim Support Unit (DOVVSU) of the Ghana Police Service (GPS) suggest that January to April, 2019 recorded the highest number of cases of domestic violence as compared to the same period in 2020.
From January to April 2019, DOVVSU recorded a total of 5,778 as compared to 4,879 in the same period in 2020.
The cases ranged from assault, non-maintenance, defilement, threat to harm, threat of death, offensive conduct and rape.
Consultation
This came to light at a national consultation organised by the International Network to End Violence Against Women and Girls (INEVAWG) in Accra.
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The Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection, in collaboration with the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), has launched the BOAME App and the Orange Support Centre to support the fight against domestic and gender-based violence.
The BOAME App is an innovative platform that supports survivors of domestic and gender-based violence to talk to relevant resource persons, while the Orange Support Centre is a call centre with counseling units for survivors of such violence to call for help and talk to a resource person for advice.
The app was created to meet a specific need of the youth.
At the event, the UN Resident Coordinator, Mr Charles Paul Iheanacho Abani, encouraged the UNFPA and the ministry to sustain the fight against domestic and gender-based violence.
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