Protect children from hazardous work in cocoa farms – SEND Ghana
SEND Ghana has called on stakeholders in the cocoa sector to identify gaps in policies and enforcement and take practical steps to protect children from hazardous work on farms. The organisation said such measures were essential to safeguarding children’s rights to education, play and healthy development. Although Ghana had enacted laws and adopted international standards … The post Protect…
SEND Ghana has called for practical steps to protect children from hazardous work on cocoa farms in Ghana. The organization highlighted the need to identify gaps in policies and enforcement, emphasizing the importance of safeguarding children's rights to education, play, and healthy development. At a national stakeholder dialogue in Accra, Mrs Janet Adama Mohammed, the Board Chair and CEO of SEND Ghana, stressed the need for policies to produce tangible improvements in children's lives, particularly addressing hazardous work such as handling agrochemicals and assisting with cocoa spraying.
The dialogue brought together legislators, government officials, and cocoa sector stakeholders to develop measures to translate existing laws into meaningful child protection.
Brief written by urgent.news from Ghanaian Times's own syndicated text. Machine-written — may contain errors; check the original before relying on it.
