Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Witchcraft is generally understood to refer to a supernatural power possessed by an individual. In Ghana, particularly in the ...

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ACCRA (Reuters) - Ghana's parliament on Friday passed a bill to protect people accused of witchcraft, making it a crime to abuse them or send them away from communities. The new law was suggested ...

Hundreds of people suspected of witchcraft in Ghana, especially older women, face rampant human rights abuses including murder, Amnesty International said Monday, asking the government to criminalize ...

The Parliament of Ghana passed a bill on Friday that prohibits the practice of accusing others of witchcraft and criminalizes the declaration, accusation, naming or labelling of another person as a ...

Witchcraft is generally understood to refer to a supernatural power possessed by an individual. In Ghana, particularly in the northern parts of the country, the subject continues to spark fierce ...

Hundreds of people suspected of witchcraft in Ghana, especially older women, face rampant human rights abuses including murder, Amnesty International said Monday, asking the government to criminalise ...

* Any views expressed in this article are those of the author and not of Thomson Reuters Foundation. Hundreds of women in northern Ghana are accused of witchcraft and condemned to a life of extreme ...

Introduction: witchcraft violence in comparative perspective -- Ghana : the research setting -- Witchcraft beliefs in Ghana -- Socialization into witchcraft beliefs -- Witchcraft themes in popular ...

Ghanaian President Akufo-Addo delivers state of the nation address to parliament in Accra ACCRA (Reuters) - Ghana's parliament on Friday passed a bill to protect people accused of witchcraft, making ...