Prostitution, Drugs Rampant In Ghana's Mining Town
A study conducted by CARE International, a non- governmental organisation, found that cocaine, whose use was previously believed to be reserved for the more affluent …
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UNIVERSITY OF CAPE COAST PROSTITUTION IN GHANA, …
Six selected communities, where mining and industrial activities are done, comprising 53 respondents and interviewees (50 prostitutes and 3 religious leaders) were used and this was done using the purposive and snowball sampling
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Human insecurities in gold mining: A systematic review
We address this gap by unraveling the insecurities arising from gold mining in Ghana based on a systematic literature review of empirical studies on mining impacts across …
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Ghana's Human Trafficking Act: Successes and …
Ghana's Human Trafficking Act (Act)1 was enacted on December 5, 2005 to address human trafficking activity within, to, from, and through Ghana.
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Tongo's Mining Boom: The human cost beneath the glitter
Formal mining operations started in 1999 with the arrival of Kejetia Mining Company, though it struggled to succeed against a large number of small-scale local miners. By 2008, …
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THE GHANA CHAMBER OF MINES
2.1: MINING IN GHANA 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.
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Western Region: Sexual exploitation in Mining …
Currently, the Chinese population has reduced as a result of a clampdown on illegal mining and a shooting incident, which led to the relocation of some of the Chinese by the Ghana police. Commercial is said to be …
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Prostitution, Drugs Rampant In Ghana's Mining Town
ACCRA, Ghana (PANA) - An upsurge of prostitution, hard drug culture and a general breakdown of social values has been reported in Tarkwa, a mining town in the Western Region. A study conducted by CARE International, a non- governmental organisation, found that cocaine, whose use was previously believed to be reserved for the more affluent ...
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Changing Perceptions on Small-Scale Artisanal Mining (ASM) …
This report provides key findings from research undertaken by Women in Mining Ghana (WIM) and The Social Investment Consultancy Africa (TSIC) as part of a project on …
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Prostitution at Accra-Nungua
Prostitution has become the major business in Ghana which many Nigerians and a few Ghanaians are involved even in this time of COVID-19 pandemic.
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Mining And Prostitution In Ghana
Project MUSE to Work Transnational Prostitution . Journey to Work Transnational Prostitution in Colonial British West Africa Saheed Aderinto modern Ghana Although urban centers military camps and mining settlements were established primarily for the purpose of asserting colonial economic and political power and although they were constructed with male labor in mind women
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Politics on display: The realities of artisanal mining formalisation …
The informal artisanal mining sector has been posited as a development challenge for several reasons. The sector is associated with various forms of negative social and environmental effects: theft, tax invasion, environmental degradation (particularly water pollution and desertification), prostitution and child labour (Le Billon, 2008; Moretti and Garrett, 2018; …
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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) ...
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2016 Trafficking in Persons Report Country Narrative: Ghana
The government did not employ formal procedures to identify victims among vulnerable groups, such as women in prostitution or children at informal work sites, such as fishing, mining, or street vending; however, law enforcement agencies operating at the border initiated questioning to recognize indicators of trafficking.
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2016 Trafficking in Persons Report
The government did not employ formal procedures to identify victims among vulnerable groups, such as women in prostitution or children at informal work sites, such as fishing, mining, or street vending; however, law enforcement agencies operating at the border initiated questioning to recognize indicators of trafficking.
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Challenges with eradicating illegal mining in Ghana: A …
In Ghana, the number of people engaged in illegal artisanal mining activities, referred to locally as galamsey, expanded from perhaps 30,000 in 1995 (World Bank, 1995) to one million in 2006 (Bawa, 2006).Although the government has long legalised ASM, requiring prospective applicants to follow a series of streamlined regulations to obtain a concession, …
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From Gold Coast to Ghana: Changing political economy of mining …
The potential and contribution of Ghana's mining industry, especially gold, to global minerals output, is well acknowledged. The country was one time, a leading producer of gold in the world, but has had its share of the global output of gold dwindled over the years (Akabzaa, 2007). This notwithstanding, Ghana currently ranks about tenth in the ...
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2016 Trafficking in Persons Report Country Narrative: Ghana
Ghanaian boys and are subjected to forced labor within the country in fishing, domestic service, street hawking, begging, portering, artisanal gold mining, quarrying, herding, …
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Illegal mining in Ghana: The devastating …
Ghana, known as the "Gold Coast," has a long history of gold mining. However, the lure of quick profits has led to a surge in illegal mining activities, wreaking havoc on the environment, communities, and the economy.
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Migrant work beyond slavery and trafficking: work, …
This is the case in Ghana, where the criminalisation of and labour trafficking was legislated through the Ghana Human Trafficking Act in 2005 (amended in 2009), a piece of legislation that reproduces a number of the core provisions of the UN Protocol, including the definition of trafficking, as well as developing and extending others ...
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Prostitution in Ghana, it's Religious and ethical implications: …
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 …
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The dynamics and livelihood implications of illegal …
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 the ...
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2020 Findings on the Worst Forms of Child Labor: …
Ghana MODERATE ADVANCEMENT 2020 FINDINGS ON THE WORST FORMS OF CHILD LABOR 1 ... Child Prostitution and Child Pornography, and resource constraints severely ... Industry Quarrying† and small-scale mining,† sometimes for gold, including using mercury,† digging in deep pits, crushing rocks by hand, carrying heavy loads,† and operating ...
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