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One in every three women in Ghana has experienced abuse in one form or another.
According to statistics over fifteen thousand cases of offences against women and female children were reported last year alone across the country, up from a 2010 figure of about 11,000. But what happened to the law on domestic violence?
What happened to the campaign against domestic violence? For Hotline today, Francisca Kakra Forson looks at the dynamics of violence against women and how they can deal with it in the documentary Abused!
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