Speaker of Parliament, Right Honourable Prof. Aron Mike Ocquaye is expected to join students and Lecturers at the University of Education, Winneba to Commemorate 2019 edition of International Human Rights Day today.
The Centre for Conflict and Human Rights and Peace Studies (CHRAPS), UEW will Commemorate the International Human Rights Day on the theme: Stand Up For Human Rights and the program is scheduled today, Tuesday, December 10, 2019, at 1:00 PM in Jophus Anamuah-Mensah Conference Centre.
Right Honourable Prof. Aron Mike Ocquaye is expected to deliver a speech on the theme for the Commemoration.
The Global Theme is “Youth Standing Up for Human Rights”.
Human Rights Day is observed every year on 10 December — the day the United Nations General Assembly adopted, in 1948, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR): a milestone document proclaiming the inalienable rights which everyone is inherently entitled to as a human being regardless of race, color, religion, sex, language, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status. Available in more than 500 languages, it is the most translated document in the world.
Human rights issues are in the courts in Ghana regularly.
Some examples of human rights abuses are child abuse, child labor, sex trade, child kidnapping, child trafficking, domestic slavery, violence against women and discrimination.
Child abuse is any cruel treatment of children such as beating, calling nasty names, insulting, cursing and so on. In other words, it is the bad treatment of a child by an adult – especially by an adult in a position of trust or authority.
Child trafficking is a practice of taking children from their homes to work in jobs known as ‘kayayo’ and other laborious jobs elsewhere.
Source: Kofi Atakora
