Petition to Sign Anti-Witchcraft Accusations Bill into Law (Coalition Against Witchcraft Accusations)
For too long, citizens, especially older women, have been victimized by witchcraft accusations in
our country. This deep rooted and widespread practice has led to untold suffering, discrimination,
and violence. The practice of witch-hunting and witchcraft accusations is extremely harmful. Just
mere accusations break up families, the foundational unit of society; destroy lives and livelihoods,
and serve as a generational sentence of stigma and suspicion on families. Above all, witch-hunting
is based on a deadly phenomenon as we’ve witnessed the murder, lynching and brutalization of
defenseless victims, mainly older women, on regular basis. While a few of these are reported,
many attacks and murders go unreported, especially in the rural parts of Ghana.
