Lawmakers in Ghana have passed one of the world's most stringent anti-LGBTQ bills, further criminalizing sexual orientation and gender identity in the Western African country. Meanwhile, anti-LGBTQ ...

LONDON -- Ghana's parliament has passed a controversial new anti-LGBTQ bill following months of debate that could make it illegal to identify as a citizen of the LGBTQ in the West African nation. The ...

Ghanaian President Nana Akufo-Addo said on Tuesday he will wait to act on an anti-LGBTQ bill that parliament passed last week, saying in a statement that the measure is being challenged in the Supreme ...

Ghana’s Supreme Court dismissed a case filed against an anti-LGBTQ bill, bringing the proposed legislation closer to becoming law. A seven-member panel of the Supreme Court, led by Justice Avril ...

Queer Ghanaian-American author Kwei Quartey delivers his most personal novel in The Whitewashed Tombs, a new mystery that reflects the dark reality of an anti-gay bill threatening Ghana’s LGBTQ ...

Ghana’s Supreme Court on Wednesday dismissed two preemptory challenges to a new “gay propaganda” law unanimously approved by the country’s Parliament and awaiting signature by the president. The Human ...

Ghanaian legislators introduced a bill again this month to increase criminal penalties for homosexuality and supporting LGBTQ+ rights. The Human Sexual Rights and Family Values Bill, if passed, would ...

ACCRA (Reuters) - Ghanaian lawmakers have reintroduced a bill that would become one of Africa's most restrictive pieces of anti-LGBTQ legislation, three sponsors told Reuters, after an earlier attempt ...

The Supreme Court of Ghana has deferred its ruling on a request to restrain parliament from transmitting a highly contested anti-LGBTQ bill to President Nana Akufo-Addo for final approval. This ...

The flagbearer of Ghana’s ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), Mahamudu Bawumia, has vowed to sign the controversial anti-LGBTQ bill into law if he becomes president in the event the Supreme Court ...

Ghana's Supreme Court on Wednesday paved the way for a contested bill severely curtailing LGBTQ rights to become law after rejecting two bids to overturn it. Lawmakers approved the Sexual Rights and ...