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Challenging Heights rescues 25 trafficked children from Lake Volta
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Challenging Heights has rescued twenty-five (25) trafficked children, aged between six and fourteen years, from forced labour on Lake Volta in a weekend operation conducted in collaboration with the Anti-Human Trafficking Unit of the Ghana Police Service and the Department of Social Welfare.
The organisation has issued a series of urgent calls to action: To the Government of Ghana: Adequately resource child protection and anti-trafficking institutions, including the Anti-Human Trafficking Unit and the Department of Social Welfare, to ensure timely investigation, rescue, care and prosecution.
James Kofi Annan, Executive Director of Challenging Heights and a survivor of seven years of child slavery on Lake Volta, said the rescue operation underscores the urgent need for systemic action.
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