Ghana has mainstreamed Persons with Disability (PWDs) into the National Social Protection Strategy and Poverty Reduction Interventions to enable them to develop their full potentials and participate in the national development process. These are being backed with policies, programmes and strategies to facilitate the implementation of provisions in the Ghana's Persons with Disability law and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disability. Ghana's Deputy Minister of Gender, Children and Social Protection, Alexander John Ackon, announced this when he enumerated some of the measures taken by Ghana in his address at the 8th session of the Conference of States Parties to the Convention on The Rights of Persons with Disability (CRPD) at the United Nations headquarters in New York on... Read More