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3 out of 10 girls marry before 18
Addressing a press conference held on Thursday, the Head of Trafficking at the Gender Ministry, Victoria Natsu said better measures must be put in place to stop child marriages in the 3 regions of the north.
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“We were in a sensitization programme in the North in Tamale and then I asked the question and the Chiefs were saying this is our culture and our tradition and then I asked how many of you would want their boy children as young as 15 to marry an old widow but they all said no.”
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“If your boy cannot marry an elderly woman why do you want your older men to marry younger girls? So it tells you that this is discrimination. So we have done a lot, we are fighting human trafficking and we are looking at issues of domestic violence,” Madam Natsu said.
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In 2016, a women empowerment advocacy organization called Songtaba indicated that there was an increase of 42 percent in child marriage and gender-based violence in Northern Ghana.
This situation, according to Songtaba’s programmes Director, Hajia Lamnatu Adam is above the national average of 24%.
“The situation in Northern Ghana is far above the national average and I believe religious bodies are crucial in fighting against child marriage and gender-based violence.”
The report among other things also bemoaned the poor access to the Justice and legal system in the country.
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The report which was launched by Amnesty International is to serve as a document on human rights to help correct the injustice. It also expected to get more people acting to end child marriage.
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