Ghana: workers in Accra increase charges over current …

Prostitutes stand walk on the street in Benin City, capital of Edo State, southern Nigeria, on March 29, 2017. ... Ghana's economic crisis seems to be affecting all sectors, with commercial ...

Mining in Ghana – paradox of profits, pollutions and poverty

The mining companies rake in huge profits from their activities in Ghana. For in stance, in 1995 a mining company operating in one of Ghana's mining towns made a profit after tax of US$105 million. The mining sector in Ghana earned an unbelievable US$2,099.43 million in 1999. But these huge earnings were made at the expense of lives …

UNAIDS Solidarity Fund helps workers in Ghana

04 February 2022. Growing up in Jamestown, one of the oldest districts of Accra, Ghana, Susana Dartey saw the daily abuse and exploitation faced by workers, …

Mumuni Vrs Nyamekye and Others [2017] GHASC 34 (6 …

GhaLII is a non-profit organisation based in Accra that aims to source and publish digitally accessible to the general public parliamentary, legislative and judicial information from Ghana and ECOWAS. GhaLII's objectives include promotion of access to legal information from Ghana as a fundamental part of the rule of law.

Review of Environmental and Health Impacts of Mining in Ghana

History of Mining in Ghana. There is evidence of gold extraction activities in Ghana as far back as the 7th and 8th centuries A.D., as gold deposits attracted Arab traders into the country.7 These activities were strategically located along rivers where sediments believed to contain deposits of gold were washed constantly to separate the …

Ghana: workers in Accra increase charges over current …

Ghana. Ghana's economic crisis seems to be affecting all sectors, with commercial workers also bearing the brunt of the meltdown. On some noted streets …

Mining towns wallow in misery and poverty

Mining towns in Ghana are still grappling with under-development in spite of the benefits the State derives from the minerals being mined in these communities by multinational mining companies ...

Exploring the Prostitution Laws in Ghana: Criminalizing …

Per Ghana's legal frame work on prostitution, there is a reinforcement of an age-old culture of blaming victims of prostitution for their exploitation. Deducing from this, criminalizat ion portrays prostitution as a victimless crime, committed by immoral sexual deviant. This school of thought is further entrenching cultural norms silent on ...

Child prostitution prevalent at illegal mining sites

Child prostitution prevalent at illegal mining sites. Nana Beyeeman Tano Kwaw Benbuin III, Omanhene of Aowin Traditional area in the Western North Region has expressed worry over children of ...

2021 Findings on the Worst Forms of Child Labor: Ghana

In 2021, Ghana made moderate advancement in efforts to eliminate the worst forms of child labor. The government developed a Public-Private Partnership framework to address child labor in the cocoa industry. The government also drafted a new national plan of action to eliminate human trafficking, and the Ministry of Gender, Children, and Social ...

Women In International policybrief

prostitutes mostly operate in big cities and mining communities such as Takoradi, Accra, Kumasi, Cape Coast, Koforidua, as well as Obuasi, Tarkwa, Akwatia and Kenyasi.

Historical Perspectives on Industrial Development, Mining, and Prostitution

Historical Perspectives on Industrial Development, Mining, and Prostitution. September 2009. The Historical Journal 52 (03):739 - 761. DOI: 10.1017/S0018246X09990100. Authors: Julia Laite ...

PERCEPTION OF CHILD PROSTITUTION IN SOME …

factors that contribute to child prostitution in the Western Region of Ghana. The research employed both qualitative and quantitative research. Descriptive correlational survey design, snow ball, purposive sampling technique and structured interview schedules were used to select one hundred and three (103) ...

Mining In Ghana | The Diggings™

Ghana has 71 identified mines listed in The Diggings™. The most commonly listed primary commodities in Ghana mines are Gold, Manganese, and Aluminum .At the time these mines were surveyed, 33 mines in Ghana were observed to have ore mineralization in an outcrop, shallow pit, or isolated drill hole—known as an occurance mine. 1 Ghana has 16 …

The Mining Industry in Ghana: A Blessing or a …

P.O. Box LG 78 Legon, Accra – Ghana, West Africa. Email: [email protected]. Telephone: 00233209621292. Abstract. Mining has become a controversial business ev erywhere. Issues of mining a ...

Mining and resettlement communities in Ghana

The purpose of the study is to highlight the problems encountered by displaced people living in mining communities in Ghana where foreign mining companies, including Canadian …

Mining Impact on Livelihoods of Farmers of Asutifi North …

finding by Dogbe (1995) that mining has increased drug abuse and prostitution in mining areas in Ghana. The farmers also agreed that mining has …

Assessment of the Challenges in Policy

Gold Mining Sector in Ghana – A Case Study", Ghana Mining Journal, Vol. 17, No. 1, pp. 54 - 63. Abstract In recent times, stakeholders in the mining sector have expressed concerns about the environmental degradation and the social impacts of uncontrolled Small Scale Mining (SSM) activities in Ghana despite the existence of legislative ...

(PDF) Mining in Ghana's forests: Cross-sectoral linkages and …

the nexus between forests and mining. The anal ysis draws on pilot research, undertaken between. November 2011 and August 2012 in Ghana, a country where nascent attempts to implement a. Reducing ...

Challenges with eradicating illegal mining in Ghana: A …

The embryonic nature of the mineral title transfer facility in Ghana has complicated matters further. 5 Nearly 15 years ago, Davidson (1993, p. 317) called for the 'transferability of titles [to be] permitted under certain conditions…[pointing out that]…recent legislation on artisanal mining prohibits transfer of mining rights'. This is particularly …

2016 Trafficking in Persons Report

GHANA: Tier 2 Watch List ... street hawking, begging, portering, artisanal gold mining, quarrying, herding, and agriculture. Ghanaian , and to a lesser extent boys, are subjected to trafficking in Ghana. ... abused, molested, and/ or forced into prostitution. Ghanaian men were also recruited under false pretenses to go to the …

(PDF) A Rapid Assessment of the Impacts of Gold Mining on …

Prostitution is common in small —with . just 5 Cedis [1.25 USD] a man can 'eat' [have with] a woman ... Obuasi the host community of the oldest mining site in Ghana is the case ...

Mining in Ghana – What future can we expect?

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From recognising health rights to realising labour

In Ghana, however, the development of holistic sexual health/labour rights approaches has been constrained and undermined by the prevailing socio-legal landscape of prohibition, which criminalises any person who "lives on the earnings of prostitution" (Criminal Code, 1960), and stigmatisation. In practice, this means that grassroots ...

UNAIDS Solidarity Fund helps workers in Ghana

Roamers are mobile and travel to clients, whereas seaters are stationary and work out of their homes or brothels. In 2020, HIV prevalence among workers in Ghana was estimated to be 6.9%. The COVID-19 pandemic has been challenging for workers in Ghana, with lockdown restrictions hampered their ability to work.

Contaminated identities: Mercury and marginalization in Ghana…

As Ghana's per capita income (GDP) is $434 and the unemployment rate for the 15–24 age group has reached a national average of 30% (in mining areas 70–90%), ASM provides a vital source of income to tens of thousands of people who have few means for survival in the formal economy (Carson et al., 2005).Most men and women engaged …

Commercial work among university students: a case …

Background Despite its criminalization in Ghana, commercial work dates back to ancient societies and occurs in various forms within communities. The authors examined commercial work in selected public Universities in Ghana to inform policy and program decisions for safer at the universities in Ghana. Methods The study …

IMPACT OF MINING SECTOR INVESTMENT IN GHANA: …

of fiscal incentives enjoyed by mining companies and the high level of foreign exchange earnings they are allowed to retain in offshore accounts. Other relevant factors include the negative environmental impact of mining and the growing redundancies associated with the privatisation of state-owned mining companies. Thus, the growing incidence of

2017 Findings on the Worst Forms of Child Labor: Ghana

UN CRC Optional Protocol on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography Palermo Protocol on Trafficking in Persons In 2017, Ghana also ratified the Minamata Convention on Mercury, which obligates signatory countries to incorporate strategies to prevent the exposure of children to mercury in gold mining sites.

The Impact of Illegal Mining on the Ghanaian Youth: …

PDF | On Jan 1, 2012, Edwin Eric Owusu and others published The Impact of Illegal Mining on the Ghanaian Youth: Evidence From Kwaebibirem District In Ghana | Find, read and cite all the research ...

THE GHANA CHAMBER OF MINES

Ghana's geological landscape teems with a variety of minerals with the commercially exploited ones being gold, diamond, manganese and bauxite. In 2020, gold accounted for 97.2 per cent of gross mineral revenue while the respective shares of manganese, bauxite and diamond were. 2.25 per cent, 0.54 per cent and 0.01 per cent.

Gold Rush: Illegal mining fuelled by Chinese Nationals in …

Data from the Ghana Immigration Service reveals that a total of 1641 Chinese nationals engaged in illegal mining were repatriated from Ghana between 2009 …

Nigerian women in Ghana exploited by smugglers, madams, 'priests

In one year in Dichemso, she said she has met dozens of women with similar experiences. "Every day, Nigerian enter Ghana, undergo voodoo rituals and are put into prostitution, and nobody ...

Prostitution in Ghana, it's Religious and ethical implications: The

The study was conducted to investigate the religious and ethical implications of prostitution in Ghana. The purpose of the study was to examine why prostitution still persists in spite of condemnation by some religious groups. ... Six selected communities, where mining and industrial activities are done, comprising 53 respondents and ...

The dynamics and livelihood implications of illegal …

Abstract. Discourses on "illegal" or informal small‐scale mining (galamsey) have presented it largely as a menace. Using Ghana as the focus of our study, we present a counter‐narrative to ...

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Challenges with eradicating illegal mining in Ghana: A …

This paper argues that artisanal mining communities are somewhat bound to their operations, and helps explain why formalisation, alternative livelihood projects and …

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