General News of Thursday, 30 January 2020Source: ghananewsagency.orgGhana losing fight against child labour – MinisterIgnatius Baffour Awuah, Minister of Employment and Labour RelationsMr Ignatius Baffour Awuah, the Minister of Employment and Labour Relations, on Tuesday said Ghana is losing the fight against child labour, partly due to insufficient efforts to sustain the fight. The event was sponsored by Government of Ghana, Deloitte-Japan, Action Against Child Exploitation and International Labour Organisation (ILO). He called for collaboration with relevant stakeholders to ensure a child labour free home, community, district, region and country. She said child labour free zone mechanism was one of the ways to transform the world and urged all to put in their expertise to help standardise ways of eliminating it. Madam Alberta Laryea Djan, a representative of the Trades Union Congress, pledged the Union’s support to work towards child labour- free Ghana.

Source: GhanaWeb January 29, 2020 19:30 UTC