The First Global Attempt To Combat Trokosi Was Instated

The first global attempt to combat Trokosi was instated in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights of 1966, with the goal of ensuring individual liberties through the regulation of inhumane practices. More specifically, the covenant addresses slavery, forced, labor, and servitude, all constituted under Trokosi, as many of these cruel and unjust practices. A year later, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women to resist and challenge gender based partisanship. Article 2 of the convention prevents public institutions and its officials from engaging in these acts, while Article 5 argues for social reform to diminish these sexist practices, like†¦show more content†¦Trokosi is also in direct violation of the constitution s Article 27 that outlaws practices that infringe upon the â€Å"protection and promotion of all other basic human rights and freedoms, including the rights of t he disabled, the aged, children and other vulnerable groups.† Because these laws were not and still continue to be unenforced, Ghana created the Criminal Code Act of 1998, Act 554 that made ritual servitude and enslavement, along with other inhumane, customary practices, illegal, in response to protests against Trokosi’s continuation. Section 312 of the Criminal Code criminalizes these violations to as much as three years in jail, including all parties involved in these unlawful practices, such as â€Å"people who participate or are concerned with ritual or practice of servitude or forced labor, including parents, those involvement in agreement, and mediators.† However this act was not officially enacted until two years later as many people within the community argued that Trokosi was a prominent component to their religion, and any laws preventing it, were in direct violation of their right to religious freedom. In 2011, the Department of State published the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor in response to their first asylum case citing Trokosi, which describes this practices as â€Å"a traditional form of ritual servitude that is prohibited by law,† that continues to be practiced. The