Stop Solving Sexual And Gender Based Violence Issues At Palaces—CHRAJ To Chiefs
Although she commended the efforts of the traditional rulers of being helpful to the society, she stressed that the traditional office holders should rather refers sexual, gender-based violence cases to the Police for a proper punishment to be implemented to enable it serve as a deterrence to other.
Freeman Koryekpor 
The Deputy Commissioner of Commission for Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ), Madam Mercy Larbi, has advised traditional officers including chiefs and queen-mothers to avoid solving issues relating to criminal offenses, such as sexual, Gender-Based violence cases, at their Palace (Ahenfie) within the communities.
Although she commended the efforts of the traditional rulers of being helpful to the society, she stressed that the traditional office holders should rather refers sexual, gender-based violence cases to the Police for a proper punishment to be implemented to enable it serve as a deterrence to other.
She made this pronouncement at a stakeholders meeting.
The event was organized by an advocacy group on gender equality, that promotes human rights through data-driven digital technologies and capacity development called INVICTUS AFRICA in partnership with Sister civic organization BUDGIT GHANA with the support of FORD FOUNDATION on a WOMANITY INDEX GHANA.
The event was under the theme :
METHODOLOGY and VALIDATION REVIEW on the State of Gender-Based Violence, Presentation and Response."
On her part, the Country Lead Manager of BUDGIT GHANA, Jennifer Addo-choe Moffatt, emphasized, the Womanity index will aid accountability by duty bearers and provide the relevant data and evidence needed by citizens to track implementation and advocate for effective GBV prevention and response and according to her the research will focused on Gender-Based Violence (GBV) issues on prevention and response based Laws and Policies, Access to Legal Justice, Support Services, Information and Awareness, as well as Budget and Expenditure.
In furtherance, the CEO of INVICTUS AFRICA, Madam Bukky Shoni-bare,explained that, the Womanity Index is an assessment and ranking of governments performance on gender based equality,.
She indicated that these compasses five domains: Gender-Based Violence, Women’s Health, Women’s Economic Empowerment, Women’s Political Representation, and Educational Parity.
He mentioned that the organization is not only going to gather data but look at the humanitarian angles to the problem and will therefore helps provide the baseline for that, to happen effectively and efficiently on gender-based violence.
