and excessive use of force towards peaceful demonstrators, but there have been pockets of clashes between supports of the two major parties. Article 12 (1)(e) of the 1992 Constitution provides that all persons shall have the right to freedom of association, which shall include freedom to form or join trade unions or other associations, national or international, for the protection of their interest. No law controls and regulates the NGOs/CSOs funding in Ghana, sometimes leading to lack of accountability and transparency in their work. Suggested question: Please provide information on the measures taken to guarantee the right to the exercise of freedom of assembly and association in the State party and to protect human rights defenders, leaders of political parties and trade unions from interference in their activities. Protection of the family and rights of the child (arts. 23 and 24) A framework is in place to ensure the protection and prohibition of violence against children. These include: the 1992 Constitution, the Children’s Act 1998, the 2003 Juvenile Justice Act, Act 653 protects children from degrading or dehumanizing behaviour. However, there are some loopholes and contradictions in the framework. For instance the Children’s Act provides that children should not be subjected to torture or other cruel, inhumane or degrading treatment or punishment; yet the Criminal Code 1960 rationalizes that force and harm can be justified when an authority is correcting a child for misconduct. This disparity may lead to violence being perpetuated against children and may not be properly addressed by legal standards. Corporal punishment of children In practice, corporal punishment exists in the government schools, especially in the remote areas. In a case where a pupil teacher asked the students to lie down and stepped on them. A teacher of the Multi Educational Complex at Wassa Akropong in the Western region of Ghana has been caught on camera stomping on pupils who failed to do their homework or read properly. In a video circulated on YouTube, two pupils could be seen lying face-down while class was in session as the teacher identified as Christiana Owusu merrily jumped on their backs to punish them. The helpless class four pupils reeled in pain. According to Starr FM, reports say some of the pupils have been enduring this method of punishment for some time now and authorities in the region have refused to act.
and excessive use of force towards peaceful demonstrators, but there have been pockets of clashes between supports of the two major parties. Article 12 (1)(e) of the 1992 Constitution provides that all persons shall have the right to freedom of association, which shall include freedom to form or join trade unions or other associations, national or international, for the protection of their interest. No law controls and regulates the NGOs/CSOs funding in Ghana, sometimes leading to lack of accountability and transparency in their work. Suggested question: Please provide information on the measures taken to guarantee the right to the exercise of freedom of assembly and association in the State party and to protect human rights defenders, leaders of political parties and trade unions from interference in their activities. Protection of the family and rights of the child (arts. 23 and 24) A framework is in place to ensure the protection and prohibition of violence against children. These include: the 1992 Constitution, the Children’s Act 1998, the 2003 Juvenile Justice Act, Act 653 protects children from degrading or dehumanizing behaviour. However, there are some loopholes and contradictions in the framework. For instance the Children’s Act provides that children should not be subjected to torture or other cruel, inhumane or degrading treatment or punishment; yet the Criminal Code 1960 rationalizes that force and harm can be justified when an authority is correcting a child for misconduct. This disparity may lead to violence being perpetuated against children and may not be properly addressed by legal standards. Corporal punishment of children In practice, corporal punishment exists in the government schools, especially in the remote areas. In a case where a pupil teacher asked the students to lie down and stepped on them. A teacher of the Multi Educational Complex at Wassa Akropong in the Western region of Ghana has been caught on camera stomping on pupils who failed to do their homework or read properly. In a video circulated on YouTube, two pupils could be seen lying face-down while class was in session as the teacher identified as Christiana Owusu merrily jumped on their backs to punish them. The helpless class four pupils reeled in pain. According to Starr FM, reports say some of the pupils have been enduring this method of punishment for some time now and authorities in the region have refused to act.