By Joseph Oliver Cromwell
The Ministry of Employment and Labour Relations has called on all to help eradicate child labour and forced labour in child labour-prone communities in the country.
This was disclosed in a one-day training for members of SOMOPAC in conjunction with CHIRAJ and Ghana Agricultural Workers Union, GAWU.
According to reports, child labour has become a social canker that needs to be addressed.
The head of Child Labour Unit in the Ministry of Employment and Labour Relations, Esther Ofori Agyemang, reiterated the need for all hands to be on deck to achieve the accelerated plan against child labour in SDG Goal 8.
There were over 26 persons drawn from media houses in the Greater Accra and Volta Regions.
On his part, the General Deputy Secretary of the Ghana Agricultural Workers Union, GAWU, Andy Tagoe, urged media practitioners to prioritise child labour in their programmes, which should still be mentioned in aired programmes daily.
Listeners to GBC’s ‘Behind the News’ questioned how the child labour programmes will get to people in the hinterland and the villages to eradicate child labour.