The Executive Director of the Ark Foundation, Angela Dwamena-Aboagye, has expressed worry about the surge in domestic abuse in the country, emphasising that one in three Ghanaian women in relationships have suffered abuse.
Speaking in a recent interview with Joy News, she pointed out significant gaps in the implementation of laws meant to protect victims of domestic violence, calling for urgent reforms to address systemic challenges. "We (Ark Foundation) work with girls who have been abused by their fathers or their brothers and have children with their fathers.
Or a woman who is running from her husband because he is strangling her to death.
This is our human capital, and it is more endemic than we think. "One out of three adult women in relationships have suffered abuse. 27 to 30 percent of women in any type of relationship have suffered intimate partner abuse, this is in the data it hasn't changed in the last ten years," she stated.