WHEN THE MEN START GIVING BIRTH

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Today, you and I are going to change the story of creation!!! Of course, I am not talking about creating new software or inventing a new technology; I am referring to the real story of the creation of man. Have you ever wondered how the world would be, if the words of God changed after he found that Adam and Eve had eaten the forbidden fruit? What if there was an exchange of roles, sounding like this:

“…And to you Adam, I will make your pains in childbearing very severe; with painful labor you will give birth to children. Your desire will be for your wife, and she will rule over you…”

REDUCING MATERNAL MORTALITY, THE COLLECTIVE RESPONSIBILITY

Midwife checking a pregnant woman. Photo: Ghana Health Nest

Every year an estimated 3,040 Ghanaian mothers die while fulfilling their biological responsibility of pregnancy and delivery of babies.

These deaths are unacceptably high and Ghana is unlikely to meet Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 5 to reduce the maternal mortality ratio by three quarters to 185/100,000 live births by 2015.

THE CHALLENGES OF THE ADOLESCENT GIRL

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For girls, adolescence is a time when the gendered nature of society becomes more defined; when being both young and female could limit girls’ choices and thwart their potentials.

Adolescence is an age of transformation when children under-go rapid physical, cognitive, emotional, sexual and psychological changes. It is also an age of opportunity, when the brain undergoes a burst of development and the potential for learning is enormous.

STAKEHOLDERS IN GHANA CONSULT ON CEDAW SHADOW REPORT

Photo: Dana Smillie/World Bank

Ghana is a signatory to many international conventions. The country has ratified the International Labour Organization (ILO) conventions on protecting the rights of workers, eliminating child labor as well as eliminating the worst form of labor.

However, stakeholders have expressed reservations about the commitment to the effective implementation of such laws and policies. Even though the country has adopted the Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), gender inequality and discrimination against women still persists.

UNFPA MCAN MEMBER WINS 2013 JOURNALIST OF THE YEAR AWARD

Kingsley Obeng-Kyere receiving the award

A member of the UNFPA Media, Communications and Advocacy Network (MCAN), Mr Kingsley Obeng-Kyere, has been adjudged the Professor P.V Ansah/GJA Journalist of the Year for 2012, at the 18th Ghana Journalist Association (GJA) Awards ceremony held in Accra.

MCAN is a national network of media and communication experts formed and inaugurated in October 2002 in Ghana by UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund. Under the leadership of UNFPA, the network members are a diverse group of professionals such as reporters, correspondents, columnists, feature writers, scriptwriters, commentators, free-lance writers, producers, broadcasters, photo journalists, Ministry of Information officials among others, who either represent their media organisations or joined as individuals voluntarily to advocate for changes in policy, laws or programmes for advancing population and development issues in Ghana.