The Commission for Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) had scolded the Government and parents for failing to fulfil the constitutional mandate of the right to education.
The right to education in the Northern Region was seriously being undermined by the stakeholders of education including government as many children are denied opportunity to acquire formal education and are being used as shepherds, baby-sitters, potters, farm guards and apprentices".
Mr. Stephen Azantilow, Northern Regional Director of CHRAJ, said a commission's monitoring research revealed alarming violations of human
rights of all forms in areas of education, health, domestic violence, and children's rights.
He was speaking on Friday in Tamale to mark this year's International Human Rights Day which had been set aside by the United Nations to be
observed world-wide.
Mr. Azantilow said congestion in classrooms, delay in release of capitation grant, deductions on the capitation grant by the Ghana Education
Service, corporal punishment were among some of the other factors affecting the Ghanaian child's right to education.
On health, he said most of the health institutions in the region were under-resourced with equipments and personnel adding that they had however, been an astronomical increase in health insurance members and downward trend in the maternal deaths.
Mr. Azantilow said women were still suffered injustice and violations domestically while forced marriage and female genital mutilation were still prevalent in certain communities of the region.
He recommended for continues public sensitization, provision of logistics to law enforcement agencies to ensure the fight against the rights of individuals particularly the vulnerable.
He had earlier read Mr. Ban Ki-moon, UN Secretary General's message, which appealed to all to join in the fight against the violation of people's rights and urged the media particularly to reveal violations on people's rights.
The Northern Regional Minister, Mr. Moses Bukari Mabengba observed that the 1992 constitution empowered all persons to be equal before the law adding that there shall be no substitute for the exchange of freedom.
He appealed for concerted efforts to address the lapses of human rights violations and urged CHRAJ to continue educating people about their rights.