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Ghana: Gender Ministry Must Provide Roadmap For Shutting 'Witch Camps, Healing Centres'
allAfrica, 6 August 2020
The practice of magical skills, spells, and abilities is deeply ingrained in the Ghanaian culture - witches and wizards are believed to hold powers for fortunes or mishaps, hence… Read more »
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Ghana: The Shameful, Barbaric and Inhumane Lynching Must Stop. We Are in the 21st Century Please
Ghanaian Times, 8 August 2020
Last week, the entire nation was thrown into a state of shock by another gruesome murder, this time, the lynching of a 90-year-old woman Akua Denteh at Kafaba, in the Savana… Read more »
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Ghana: Rawlings Condemns Lynching of 90-Yr-Old Woman
Ghanaian Times, 28 July 2020
Former President Jerry John Rawlings has called for a thorough investigation and arrest of all who were involved in the "cruel and barbaric lynching of a 90-year-old woman accused… Read more »
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Ghana: Time to Shut Down All Witches' Camps Is Now
Ghanaian Times, 11 August 2020
The Minister of Gender, Children and Social Protection, Mrs Cynthia Morrison, has declared that there will be no more 'witches' camps in the country. Read more »
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Africa: Witch Hunts - a Global Problem in the 21st Century
DW, 10 August 2020
Witch hunts are far from being a thing of the past -- even in the 21st century. In many countries, this is still a sad reality for many women today. That is why August 10 has been… Read more »
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Ghana: The Culture of Witchcraft Accusations - a Threat to Women's Rights in Ghana
Ghanaian Times, 3 August 2020
On the 24th July, 2020 the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) observed with troubling shock a video circulating on social media as well as media reports… Read more »
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Ghana: ActionAid Ghana Condemns Lynching of 90-Year-Old Alleged Witch in the Savannah Region
ActionAid, 25 July 2020
ActionAid Ghana, an affiliate of ActionAid, a global movement of people working together to further human rights for all and defeat poverty has noted with grave concern a viral… Read more »
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Ghana: Women Accused of Witchcraft in Ghana Find Refuge in Outpost Run By Sisters
Global Sisters Report, 13 April 2020
Vivian Salamatu and 200 hundred other women here are bound together for life. They share each other's misfortunes and all have a similar story. They were accused of witchcraft,… Read more »
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Ghana: Shut Down 'Witch' Camps - Lynching of 90-Year-Old Woman Condemned
Public Agenda, 30 July 2020
The Ghana Pentecostal and Charismatic Council (GPCC) has said it is time for the government to consider closing down the various "witch" camps in the country. Read more »
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Ghana: Basicneeds Supports Inmates of 4 Witches Camp in Northern Region
Ghanaian Times, 26 June 2020
BasicNeeds-Ghana, a mental health and development advocacy organisation, has supported inmates of four witch camps in Northern Region, with money and means of transportation. Read more »
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Ghana: Enough Is Enough! Attack and Lynching of Alleged Witches Must Stop
Ghanaian Times, 27 July 2020
Anthropologists long ago described witchcraft as a widespread multifaceted social phenomenon in many societies populating the African continent, and other regions of the globe, in… Read more »
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Ghana: Education, Not Disbandment
Ghanaian Chronicle, 7 December 2011
Witches camps in Northern Ghana continue to exist, as victims there still face harsh economic experiences and society still with the notion of they being a danger, and in spite of… Read more »
Calls to Close 'Witch Camps, Healing Centres' Grow in Ghana
The renewed calls come after a 90-year-old woman was lynched after being accused of being a witch. She didn't survive, but the women who do are sent or run away to settlements called "witch camps". In 2011, the government announced it would shut the camps, but those efforts have come to nought. A 2012 report by ActionAid appealed to the government not to rush into closing the camps as they are a "safe haven" for the women. Since the issue has now resurfaced, the government and gender ministry are being urged to move on shutting the camps and the so-called healing centres where women are "identified" as being involved in witchcraft.
Sano Kojo, 66, has been living in a camp since 1981 when she was accused of being a witch by allegedly pressing on her cousin’s chest until he died. “People don’t care about alleged witches. Once you are here you are forgotten.”
Documents
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1 September 2012
Condemned Without Trial - Women and Witchcraft in Ghana
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- ActionAid
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In northern Ghana, hundreds of women accused of witchcraft by relatives or members of their community are living in 'witch camps' after fleeing or ... see more »
