{"id":196091,"date":"2025-04-15T11:23:39","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T09:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-hundreds-accused-of-witchcraft-urgently-need-protection-and-reparation\/"},"modified":"2025-04-15T11:23:39","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T09:23:39","slug":"ghana-hundreds-accused-of-witchcraft-urgently-need-protection-and-reparation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-hundreds-accused-of-witchcraft-urgently-need-protection-and-reparation\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Hundreds Accused of Witchcraft Urgently Need Protection and Reparation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">The Ghanaian authorities have failed to protect and fulfil the human rights of hundreds of victims of witchcraft accusations and ritual attacks that forced them to flee their communities fearing for their lives, said Amnesty International in a new report.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"70\"><em>\u201cBranded for life: How witchcraft accusations lead to human rights violations of hundreds of women in North Ghana\u201d<\/em>, documents the situation across four informal camps where accused people, primarily older women, are currently living with&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202504150075.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ghanaian authorities have failed to protect and fulfil the human rights of hundreds of victims of witchcraft accusations and ritual attacks that forced them to flee their communities fearing for their lives, said Amnesty International in a new report. \u201cBranded for life: How witchcraft accusations lead to human rights violations of hundreds of women [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":196092,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00661963:811bd6fd6c69f31a3ce9f89aab3659dc:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[7083,258,256,4508,4509,6529,257,7897,28099,254,8907,4454],"class_list":["post-196091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-accused","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-hundreds","tag-news","tag-protection","tag-reparation","tag-south-africa-today","tag-urgently","tag-witchcraft"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00661963:811bd6fd6c69f31a3ce9f89aab3659dc:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}