Monthly Archives: June 2023

Living without a toilet facility at home can be a harrowing experience for anyone, but for a 15-year-old patient who lives at Gbegbeyise, it is a daily nightmare.  The lack of basic sanitation facilities has made life unbearable for the teenager, who struggles to cope with the disease and the lack of access to a...

The Executive Director of Human Rights Reporters Ghana (HRRG), Joseph Wemakor, recently discussed the issue of domestic violence and spousal killings in Ghana in an interview on the “Y3 SENE S3N” morning show with the host, Kojo Nsaah-Kwao, popularly known as “The General,” on the Techiman-based Globe TV. Wemakor talked about the prevalence of domestic...

The founder and executive director of Human Rights Reporters Ghana (HRRG), Mr. Joseph Kobla Wemakor, has spoken out against the mistreatment of cocoa farmers in Ghana and the Ivory Coast, calling it a depressing situation. Mr. Wemakor highlighted the upsetting results of recent research by Oxfam in an interview with an American television journalist who...

Uwe Gneiting, a senior researcher at Oxfam America’s Private Sector Department has found that the current era is the most advantageous to address the long-standing issue of the heinous exploitation of Ghanaian cocoa farmers by the major businesses that control the cocoa supply chain. On Thursday, June 1, 2023, he revealed this in a skype...

The cocoa industry is one of the most important sectors in Ghana, contributing significantly to the country’s economy. Ghana is the second-largest cocoa producer globally, with around 800,000 cocoa farmers. However, despite its importance, the industry faces a critical issue that threatens the livelihoods of cocoa farmers – the heinous exploitation of Ghanaian cocoa farmers...