International Journal of Gender & Women's Studies

Legal Remedies Against the Abuse of Woman and Children: The Case of Ghana
Ernest Adu-Gyamfi

Abstract
Issues relating to women and children worldwide are of much significance particularly, the enormity and universality of abuse against women and children. Women and children’s rights are still abused and violated in the Ghanaian society decades after Ghana acceded and ratified the universal declaration of human rights. There are commissions, documents, policies and programmes put in place to promote and protect the rights of women and children but this repulsive incident still persists. This study investigated the legal remedies against the abuse of woman and children: The Case of Ghana. The study using secondary sources available including newspaper report, talks with experts, documents confirmed that women and children’s right are being encroached and violated in spite of the legal provisions available to victims. The study recommended need to set up mechanisms for monitoring and evaluating programmes, policies and implementing existing legal remedies and legislations; and ensuring greater transparency and accountability from government in order to eliminate all forms of abuses against women and children.

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