Amnesty International has given a thumbs-up on its latest documentary titled, Sex for Fish, that focused on a decades-long sexual exploitation problem that has teenage girls at its very core, in one of the prime communities of Cape Coast in the Central Region.
Speaking with 's , who investigated the story at Ntsin, a community embedded deep in the heart of Cape Coast, Genevieve Partington, Country Director of Amnesty International Ghana, said the details were frightening. "When I saw the excerpts of the documentary, it was quite frightening that this is what is going on," she confessed.
She, however, was quick to add that even though the peculiar situation of teenage girls giving their bodies out for things as simple as fish at Ntsin came to them as a surprise, this is a practice that is prevalent in a lot of coastal communities. "But it is not new; this is happening in other parts of the world… but there are laws that protect these young girls from exploitation.
Under the law, it is explicitly sexual exploitation, but it's also trafficking," she added.
