CHAPTER 2 and Entrepreneurship Programme (STEP) to provide skill training to out-of-school employed youth. The Ghana Functional Literacy Training Programme provides literacy for school dropouts and illiterates. Both programmes offer opportunities for women to acquire vocational skills and literacy. Right to property 92. Article 22 of the 1992 Constitution provides that: (a) a spouse shall not be deprived of reasonable provisions of the estate of a spouse, whether or not the spouse died intestate; (b) spouses have equal access to property jointly acquired during marriage; and (c) assets jointly acquired during marriage shall be distributed equitably between the spouses upon the dissolution of the marriage. Parliament has yet to pass a law regulating the property rights of spouses, twelve years after the promulgation of the Constitution. ii. Findings of the CRM 93. Stakeholders agree that the 1992 Constitution provides specific guarantees for the rights of women and that government policy, particularly that on affirmative action, will ensure the promotion and protection of these rights. However, many feel that the status of women in Ghana leaves much to be desired and requires urgent attention. The political class needs an exemplary political will to deal with the primarily cultural impediments to the promotion and protection of women's rights. 94. Stakeholders condemn domestic violence against women. Immediate and urgent legislation is needed to criminalise this major assault on the rights of women. Stakeholders are disappointed that an attempt in this regard, in the form of the Domestic Violence Bill, has come up against much opposition, principally on account of the clause that seeks to criminalise “spousal rape”. 95. Although Ghana has ratified several conventions and covenants on women's rights, some instruments concerning women's rights are awaiting ratification. For example, the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights on Women's Rights, and the UN Protocol against Trafficking in Human Persons especially Women and Children, are still on the drawing board at the Ministries of Justice and Foreign Affairs. They are undergoing processing for ratification, which is long overdue, and it is unclear what is causing the delay. 40