Visuals for Gender successfully organized a two-day hackathon and stakeholder engagement under the theme Hacking for Gender: Combating gender-based violence with the power of technology. The event was held at Mobile Web Ghana on 2nd and 3rd March 2018. The… Read More »Visuals for Gender Hackathon

VISUALS FOR GENDER, an open data project funded by AmplifyChange, is organising a two-day gender hackathon and stakeholders engagement at Mobile Web Ghana, Agboba – North Legon. This is scheduled to take place on Friday, the 2nd of March and… Read More »GENDER HACKATHON

The above visualization is a summary of assault cases in Ghana reported to DOVVSU from 2014 – 2016. Firstly, we looked at victims of this criminal act, suspects, the relationship that exists between them and then how many cases were… Read More »An Analysis of Assault Cases in Ghana from 2014-2016

Tuesday, 17th October 2017  we were at Dialogue Genitalia at the ETS drama studio, University of Ghana, Legon. The theme for the open forum was ‘Men as victims of sexual abuse’. The event was designed to ‘provide a safe space for… Read More »Dialogue Genitalia – Men as victims of sexual abuse

Domestic Violence refers to violent acts or threats of violence against another person living in the same household (or neighborhood), especially a family member or an intimate partner. Ideally, the home is the last place we would expect criminal activities… Read More »Top 5 Domestic Violence Cases in Ghana (2014 – 2016)

In the Criminal Offense Act (1960) of Ghana, Abduction is spelled out as detaining a child and preventing him from enjoying his lawful possession entitled to him.  (Section 92) The Domestic Violence and Victim Support Unit’s report on abduction cases… Read More »Abduction cases reported by DOVVSU in 2015

As reported by the Domestic Violence and Victim Support Unit (DOVVSU), the above info graph reveals a summary of reported cases from suspects and victims of incest. Out of the 27 cases reported in the year 2015, 48.15% were sent… Read More »Incest cases reported by DOVVSU in 2015

WHAT DEFILEMENT IS According to the Criminal Offences Act-1960 (Act 29), section 101, Defilement of a child under 16 years of age:      For the purposes of this Act, defilement is the natural or unnatural carnal knowledge of any child under… Read More »Defilement in Ghana (A review of the Domestic Violence and Victims Support Unit (DOVVSU) Report, 2015)