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President Nana Akufo-Addo has pledged his commitment to empowering girls and women by ending child marriage in Ghana and on the African continent.
According to the President, empowering women who are the majority on the African continent is critical to speeding up Africa’s progress.
“So as President of Ghana, as co-chair of the UN Sustainable Development Goals, and as AU Gender Champion, I am committed to putting in place policies and programmes aimed at improving the development of the girl child in Ghana. I’m equally committed to ensuring access to a minimum of senior high school education for the girl-child in Ghana, a policy that has already begun to work. I’m also committed to mobilizing support towards ending child marriage in Ghana and in the whole of the African continent. Together we can achieve gender equality, we can empower women and girls and achieve the goals of the Sustainable Development Goals. One day we are going to have a female President of Ghana.”
The President was speaking at the 2022 Global Citizens Festival at the Black Star Square in Accra which was attended by thousands of people from all walks of life. It was the 10th edition.
The objective of the event is to call on world leaders and major corporations to take urgent action for girls, for the planet and to end extreme poverty now.
A simultaneous event was held in New York and was broadcast around the world.
