End Human Rights Abuses Against Alleged Witches

Dear Readers

It has been another interesting moment to highlight the cause of our work where we present to our dear readers various updates. Songtaba however wants to extend it sincere appreciation to it cherish donors for their continuous support to End Human rights Abuses against Alleged Witches and also restoring back smiles and dignity of reintegrated women who have lived alleged witches camps for several years. Indeed it has been a long journey to freedom

During the quarter under review, Songtaba continued it community level sensitisation to educate traditional leaders and community members on rights of women more especially those who are accused of been witches and to reduce the prevalence of fresh accusation and torture. It is exciting to report that Songtaba had a successful collaboration with one of the key state institution with the mandate to investigate human rights issues in Ghana, the commission on human rights and administrative justice to sensitize 15 additional communities’on human rights violations and its consequences. This was necessary because of the recent upsurge of accusations in Tamale and other surrounding communities. This recent accusations called for Songtaba project management team to meet and to strategize and intensify sensitisations both at the community level and through the radio.

It is part of our plans this years do engage more of the communities with the use of role plays and dramas on the dangers of these practice; how it rubs our society from the very human resource that we need champion our development agenda. Songtaba will be collaborating with number development organisations to build a more sustainable and effective strategy to significantly reduce this culture of dehumanising aged women based on suspicion and allegation. Plans are far advance in working decentralised local authorities to legislate on the matter in the form of bye-laws to be implemented in the communities.

This is long journey and requires the support of every body in Ghana whether it is happening in your region or not, you are needed on board this journey. Due this Songtaba take advantage of every key moment to talk about this abuse that is happening in the northern region that government is fully aware of but turning a deaf on.on the recently international women's day was a clear oppotunity that we used to creat more awareness around the situation of women in the region and what they go through. 

An attack on one of us is an attack on all of us every where