The National Gender Commissioner of the Graduate Students Association of Ghana (GRASAG), Mercy Yaa Boatemaa Appiah, has urged that Ghana's new Affirmative Action Act (Gender Equity law) be treated as a transformative mandate rather than a symbolic gesture.
She made the statement at the Affirmative Action Conference on November 4, 2024.
The conference, organised at the Accra International Conference Centre by the Gender Commissioner in partnership with the All-Africa Students Union (AASU), gathered stakeholders for a discourse on the legislation.
In her opening remarks, Mercy Yaa Boatemaa Appiah issued a stirring call to action: "Let us not allow this Act to merely exist on paper.