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| Members of the NPP's Women's Wing |
Yeah, it was the "no more witch trials" policy that caught my eye. Ghana News Agency highlights what the center-right New Patriotic Party — yes, they are Big Government conservatives — is promising if it's elected on December 7: "According to the party,
an NPP government will reduce maternal and child morbidity and mortality
through the revitalization of the National Health Insurance Scheme, the
Free Maternal Care Policy and Ghana School Feeding Programme (GSFP),
and encourage the provision of quality childcare facilities for mothers
at workplaces, markets and community centres in cities and towns."
The article continues: "'NPP government will
encourage young girls to go to school, stay in school and open up
science and mathematics education for girls at all levels of education
by enforcing an affirmative action policy,' the NPP stated. The Party also promised
to work with traditional authorities to free women from such oppressive
and discriminatory practices as
ostracisation of so-called witches in special villages and widowhood rites."
