{"id":143003,"date":"2015-08-13T11:30:04","date_gmt":"2015-08-13T11:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=143003"},"modified":"2015-08-13T10:44:37","modified_gmt":"2015-08-13T10:44:37","slug":"group-bemoans-high-sexual-harassment-in-northern-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2015\/08\/group-bemoans-high-sexual-harassment-in-northern-region\/","title":{"rendered":"Group bemoans high sexual harassment in Northern Region"},"content":{"rendered":"
A consortium of female adults called the Young Urban Women has revealed that sexual harassment is increasing in the Northern Region.<\/p>\n
This worrying development, according to the group is gaining notoriety at work places and in some schools in the region.
\nThis was brought this to the fore in Tamale on the occasion of the 2015 International Youth Day celebration celebrated on the theme, \u201cYouth civic engagement: the missing voice of the female youth.\u201d<\/p>\n
The group in a petition submitted to the Northern Regional Coordinating Council chronicled nine developmental issues affecting the lives of young women in the region.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n The petition demanded that the Ghana Education Service should stop shielding and submit the names of teachers caught for sexual harassment to the law enforcement agencies.<\/p>\n \u201cGhana Education Service in the region should present to the Regional Coordinating Council names of teachers caught for sexual harassment of young women for severe punishment instead of just transferring them.\u201d<\/p>\n The group also requested that the Regional Coordinating Council should lead a process to have traditional leaders and other stakeholders in the region stop interfering in defilement, sexual harassment and child marriage cases.<\/p>\n