Mr. Nurudeen Mohammed Ibrahim, the Executive Secretary of Coalition of Africa NGOs against Torture, has appealed to chiefs in Bawku to support the government to maintain law and order in the area.
He observed that the situation in Bawku in the Upper East Region was the most serious and a reversing case for action against human rights violations and there was therefore the need for all stakeholders to take appropriate measures to help bring about peace and unity to the area.
In a statement released to the Press in Kumasi on Thursday on Torture Mr. Ibrahim called on all well-meaning Ghanaians to always push the government to condemn all forms of torture and also ensure that such perpetrators are brought to book.
He indicated that the UN convention on torture which came into force in 1987 and this year marked its 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights enjoins all to work to erase this ugly stain on human conscience.
He said, in Ghana, the solid democratic parameters that had been set by successive governments in the fourth Republic had made torture uncommon.
However, he said it is a matter of concern that reported cases of defilement and rape had bedevilled the country in recent times, stressing that this diabolical acts being perpetrated by irresponsible men should be seen as torture which must not be accepted in the society.
The Executive secretary urged the government to use the Domestic Violence Act to ensure that the perpetrators of these crimes were brought to justice.
"These women and girls who are victims have done nothing to deserve such torture that they undergo and they (perpetrators) must be punished", he said.