A Day’s workshop on Adolescent Reproductive Health (ARH) Right and Gender Issues from the Islamic Perspective has ended at Hohoe in the Volta Region.
The workshop, organised for Muslims by the Coalition of Muslim Organisation, Ghana (COMOG), under a programme “Gender and Human Rights from the Islamic Perspective,” was sponsored by the United Nations Fund for Population Activities (UNFPA).
A total of 150 participants, comprising Imams community heads, youth and women leaders, attended the forum to share ideas and to discuss measures of intensifying education as a strategy and tool for youth development.
Opening the workshop, an executive member of COMOG, Manam Abdul Rahman, called on the participants to work in harmony to create an enabling environment for the youth to make an informed choice on ARH issues.
He was also of the view that the equality preached by Islam had won for it many converts.
Manam Rahman noted that as far as Islam was concerned, all people were equal before the law and would be given equal punishment for committing the same offence.
In a 12 point resolution, the Muslims pledged their firm support to the government and also promised to keep their communities clean.
They also promised to register massively under the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) and to patronise the National Identification exercise as well.
On education, they said they would endeavour to educate their children, including the girl-child.
They condemned all acts of violence be they religious, political or social.
The resolution urged all qualified people who had not yet registered for the December 7 general election to do so and pledged to support a violence-free campaign in the run-up to the election.
Some of the topics treated at the workshop were “Rights of parents, ”Rights of children, ”Mutual Rights of Husband and Wife”, “Rights of Orphans” and “Rights of Kin”.
The others were “Rights of Neighbours,” “Rights of the sick and disabled“ and Rights of slaves and servants”.
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