An official of CHRAJ has appealed to policy makers to come out with policies that would address discrimination against women.
The Upper East Acting Regional Director of the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative of Justice (CHRAJ), Mr. Kenneth Adabayeri, said
this when he spoke at a workshop on "Women Access to Justice -Challenges and Prospects" at Bolgatanga on Saturday.
The workshop under the theme" Curbing Violence against Women -The Role of Various Stakeholders", was organised by the Regional Inter-sector Gender Network (RISEGNET), an NGO working to promote women welfare.
It is sponsored by Action Aid Ghana, an NGO and aimed at building a data on violence against women to be used as an effective campaign tool
against violence meted out to women.
Mr Adabayeri said there was the need to re-examine gender issues to be able to deal with the problem and that policy makers needed to formulate more strategic policies aimed at relieving the burden on women and girls.
Mr. Adabayeri said there was the need for the government, civil society and other stakeholders to commit enough resources and time to step action on violence against women.
The Chairman of RISEGNET, Mr. Daud James Abang-Gos, said more public education with collaboration from traditional authorities and the strict enforcement of the law against Domestic Violence would help curb violence
against women.
He appealed to politicians, opinion leaders including religious leaders to stop the practice of intervening to secure the release of perpetrators of domestic violence from the police custody and asking for out of court settlement.
Mr. Abang-Gos said his outfit had plans to build the capacity of women who want to contest the District Assembly election in October and appealed to women leaders, gender NGOs, traditional and opinion leaders to encourage
and support women to contest the election.
He said the present 55 Assembly women in the region of which 21 are elected and 34 appointed were inadequate.