The mother of a stolen baby in Kumasi will have to wait a while longer to reunite with the child. It’s been three weeks since police retri...

The suspects have been identified as Evelyn Jemima Alangeah and Samuel Obeng Afriyie, the former a Probation Officer and the latter a Ju...

The Department of Social Development in the Brong Ahafo Region has threatened to close down more children’s homes in the near feature. Mor...

‘Let’s protect rights of orphans, foster children’ The Children’s Act Act, 1998 (Act 560) envisages a situation where children will find t...

Bawjiase Orphanage Home Children Used As Sex Objects Child cruelty is only entrenched due to society’s apathy. However, the plight of chil...

Government bans adoptions The government has placed a temporary ban on adoption in the country in order to allow time for investigations a...

Adopted Ghanaian Girl May Get to Stay in U.S. U.S. immigration officials improperly ordered the deportation of a Ghanaian immigrant whose ...

Ghana: Agony of 143 Orphan Children ANOTHER ORPHANAGE perceived to be the largest in the whole of the Northern Region has emerged in Savel...

California couple jailed in Ghana and their biological children taken after they tried to board plane with four African children they wante...

U.S. couple detained in Ghana for trying to adopt An American couple, who used their popular blog to chronicle their journey to adopt fou...

Ghana: Illegal Orphanages Spring Up in V/R - Dept. of Social Welfare Threatens Closure The Volta Region branch of the Department of Social...

Amend Foster Care Regulations to Protect Male Children The recent rise in the number of abuse cases involving young boys raises the stakes...

Child welfare institutions unable to support child’s rights-Child Rights Worker A child rights advocte on Monday expressed worry over the ...

Ghana to send 'witches' banished to refugee camps back home A report by Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN), says abou...

Deformed children are being killed in Ghana Three-year old John the Baptist, who hails from Gnani, a community in the Yendi Municipality o...

94 per cent of Ghanaian parents endorse corporal punishment-Survey A survey conducted in four districts of the country by the Campaign f...

Bridging the Gap: Child Welfare and Protection in Africa Bridging the Gap: Child Welfare and Protection in Africa, its Challenges and Failur...

Institutional care for orphans must be discouraged – Adongo Mr Stephen Adongo, Director of Social Welfare, has underlined the need to give p...

Lack of funds frustrates child protection efforts The Multi-Sectoral Committee on Child Protection in the Volta Region, on Thursday asked th...

Institutionalising children in orphanages is bad – Social Welfare Department The Department of Social Welfare (DSW) has noted that confining...