Congratulations to Gates Scholar Kofi Boakye for winning the 2008 Law and Social Inquiry Graduate Student Paper Competition with his paper Factors Contributing to the Underreporting of Child Sexual Abuse (CSA) in Ghana: An Exploratory Study.
Gates Scholar Wins Prize From Prestigious Law Journal
- May 15, 2008
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