{"id":218094,"date":"2025-12-25T22:53:04","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T20:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-ministry-of-local-government-engages-stakeholders-on-gender-based-violence\/"},"modified":"2025-12-25T22:53:04","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T20:53:04","slug":"ghana-ministry-of-local-government-engages-stakeholders-on-gender-based-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-ministry-of-local-government-engages-stakeholders-on-gender-based-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Ministry of Local Government Engages Stakeholders On Gender-Based Violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"48\">THE Ministry of Local Government, Chieftaincy and Religious Affairs (MLGCRA), in partnership with the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), has engaged faith-based organisations across the region on surmounting harmful traditional practices like teenage pregnancy, gender and social norms confronting young adolescents in the Upper East Region on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">The day&#8217;s workshop formed part of the 16 days of activism against gender-based violence, a global campaign aimed at raising awareness and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512230658.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 Ministry of Local Government, Chieftaincy and Religious Affairs (MLGCRA), in partnership with the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), has engaged faith-based organisations across the region on surmounting harmful traditional practices like teenage pregnancy, gender and social norms confronting young adolescents in the Upper East Region on Saturday. The day&#8217;s workshop formed part of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":218095,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,7406,9518,4508,4509,6427,7823,6857,257,254,6379,2148],"class_list":["post-218094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-engages","tag-genderbased","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-government","tag-local","tag-ministry","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stakeholders","tag-violence"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218094","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=218094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}