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23.12.2007 General News

NCCE addresses issues on child labour

By GBC News
NCCE addresses issues on child labour
23.12.2007 LISTEN

The Ahafo-Ano South District Director of the National Commission for Civic Education, NCCE, Isaac Gyimah, has implored Ghanaians to uphold the rights of children to ensure their total development. He said they should create an enabling environment to protect them against all forms of abuse which will have serious and long-lasting consequences on their lives.

Mr. Gyimah was speaking at a day's sensitization workshop on child rights and related issues organized by the Mankranso Seventh-Day Adventist Church at Mankranso.

He noted that children, since time immemorial have remained a strategic human resource base as they represented the hope and future of every nation.

Stressing that, in view of this the nation should be proactive in addressing the various challenges that impede their development. The NCCE District Director said stakeholders should campaign seriously against child labour and trafficking, as well as the engagement of children as sex slaves since these practices were dehumanizing.

Mr. Gyimah commended the SDA church for organizing the programme and called on other churches to take child rights issues seriously for the benefit of the nation.

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