A 3-day coaching workshop on gender-based violence and other vital points affecting the reproductive well being amongst younger adolescents has been organised for journalists and media practitioners within the Higher East Area.
The workshop, organised by the Discussion board for African Girls Educationists (FAWE) Ghana chapter was to equip members with the requisite data and abilities in reporting gender points, allowing for the delicate nature of such reviews.
It fashioned a part of the Adolescent Sexual Reproductive Well being Rights (ASRHR) and Gender Equality (GE) undertaking being applied by the organisation in partnership with Proper to Play, WaterAid Ghana and FHI 360, with funding from International Affairs Canada.
Addressing the members on Wednesday, the Senior Discipline Officer of FAWE Ghana chapter, Emmanuel Tongya Gazari, disclosed that FAWE had prioritised points afflicting the event of adolescents, and would proceed to supply coaching to journalists on gender-sensitive reporting to foster a tradition of inclusivity and moral journalism.
“So, as a part of the undertaking design, FAWE Ghana, which is specialised in advocacy, has been dealing with the advocacy side of the undertaking.
Previous to the start of the undertaking, we realised there have been nonetheless points affecting our younger individuals. A few of them need to do with the reproductive well being and rights of the youngsters, gender equality, and the difficulty of dangerous conventional practices, the place some communities nonetheless maintain the view that the place of the woman or girl is within the kitchen or one other man’s home,” Mr Gazari mentioned.
He, subsequently, urged the trainees to decide to advocating the rights of adolescents of their information stories, together with the power of younger women to stay free from undesirable pregnancies, unsafe abortions, intercourseually transmitted infections (STIs), and all types of sexual violence.
The Senior Discipline Officer additional indicated that the difficulty of juvenileage being pregnant which was on a decline within the undertaking operational areas such because the Bongo and Builsa North districts, in addition to the Kassena-Nankana and West municipalities, had begun to surge once more following the actions of unlawful mining, popularly known as “galamsey”.
The “galamseyers”, he alleged, lure the teenage women in these areas with cash, truncating the education enterprise of kids.
Consequently, he known as for deliberate efforts to sort out the unlawful mining menace, in order to spare the younger women from a “blurred” future.
David Kwesi Wi Ghartey-Tagoe, a neighborhood radio initiator and lecturer, urged the media to be culturally and gender delicate whereas addressing sexuality and gender points.
