Ghana has to invest in its most marginalised and disadvantaged youth to create a more equal society.
![Campaigners say there are still up to 27 million enslaved worldwide today. Modern forms of slavery include forced labour, such as ''Kayayei'', which is carried out by children such as these thousands of whom are trafficked or sent from the impoverished north of Ghana to make money in the capital. With no family in the south the girls, some as young as 8 years old, sleep on the streets where they are vulnerable to rape and other forms of abuse and where they have no access to basic healthcare or education [TUGELA RIDLEY/EPA]](/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/20121016133157659734_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Kwame Akyeampong
Kwame Akyeampong is the senior policy analyst of the Education for All Global Monitoring Report published by UNESCO.
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