{"id":761385,"date":"2019-12-09T20:42:12","date_gmt":"2019-12-09T20:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2019\/12\/09\/twenty-one-percent-of-girls-in-ghana-are-in-child-marriage-zonta-int\/"},"modified":"2019-12-09T20:42:12","modified_gmt":"2019-12-09T20:42:12","slug":"twenty-one-percent-of-girls-in-ghana-are-in-child-marriage-zonta-int","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/12\/09\/twenty-one-percent-of-girls-in-ghana-are-in-child-marriage-zonta-int\/","title":{"rendered":"Twenty-one percent of girls in Ghana are in child marriage &#8211; Zonta Int"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><b><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">By<br \/>\nJesse Owusu Ampah, GNA<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">Accra, Dec. 09, GNA<br \/>\n\u2013 Madam Naana Aboagye Asare, President of Zonta Club International (Zonta) Tema<br \/>\nChapter, has said twenty-one per cent of young girls in the country are in<br \/>\nchild marriage.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">She said there was<br \/>\nthe need for drastic measures to be taken by stakeholders in the fight against<br \/>\nthis menace that was destroying the potentials of the girl child.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">Madam Asare made<br \/>\nthese remarks at the unveiling of a United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)<br \/>\nbillboard at the Ashaiman overpass. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">The unveiling of the<br \/>\nbillboard was done by the UNFPA in partnership with Zonta International Ghana. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">She said the<br \/>\nstatistics on child marriage in Ghana was alarming and needed to be nip in the<br \/>\nbud.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">Mrs Selina Owusu,<br \/>\nUNFPA Ghana Gender Programmes Analyst, who led in the unveiling of the<br \/>\nbillboard, said child marriage was a serious national canker that needed to be<br \/>\ntackled with all hands on deck.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">She called on all<br \/>\nstakeholders and Ghanaians to join in the fight against child marriage and<br \/>\ngender-based violence in the country.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">She said the<br \/>\nunveiling of the billboard was part of the commemoration of the 16-Day activism<br \/>\nadopted by the Fund in the fight against child marriage and gender-based abuse.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">\u201cWe are creating the<br \/>\nawareness that violence in every form or shape has to be stopped. Violence<br \/>\naffects our development that is why UNFPA and ZONTA are unveiling this<br \/>\nbillboard,\u201d she said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">The 16-Day activism<br \/>\nagainst gender-based abuse and child marriage was a platform to create<br \/>\nawareness of gender-based abuse and fight the menace.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">Mr Owusu said the<br \/>\ncountry needed to draw a strategic plan against child marriage and domestic<br \/>\nviolence, adding that \u201cwe need action now as the talk is becoming too much; we<br \/>\nneed a timeline, let\u2019s say a five-year timeline to eradicate this menace.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">The 16-Day Activism<br \/>\nstarted on November 25, 2019 and would end on December 10, 2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">Chief Inspector<br \/>\nSabina Ama Blay, Regional Director of the Domestic Violence Victims Support<br \/>\nUnit (DOVVSU), called on persons who were domestically abused to report to the<br \/>\ninstitution and not keep it to themselves.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">She commended the<br \/>\nUNFPA for the 16-Day activism initiative and called on all Ghanaians to support<br \/>\nthe fight against child marriage and gender-based violence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;&#10;mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:&#10;EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA\">GNA<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Jesse Owusu Ampah, GNA Accra, Dec. 09, GNA \u2013 Madam Naana Aboagye Asare, President of Zonta Club International (Zonta) Tema Chapter, has said twenty-one per cent of young girls in the country are in child marriage. 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