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 ...

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 ...

In late February, Ghana’s parliament passed a bill that will sentence those who identify as LGBTQ+ to jail time. The bill also carries similar punishments for advocates of LGBTQ+ rights, along with ...

(Bloomberg) -- Ghana’s parliament is stalling the approval of new cabinet ministers to put pressure on President Nana Akufo-Addo to take a decision on an anti-LGBTQ bill that requires his assent to ...

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 ...

When a group of women in Cape Town, South Africa, protested a sentence given to two men under Malawi's anti-gay legislation on May 20, 2010. [AP] Ghana's parliament on Wednesday approved a bill to ...

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 ...

ACCRA (Reuters) - Ghana's anti-LGBTQ bill passed by parliament in February should not be transmitted to President Akufo-Addo for assent until two legal challenges against it are settled, a senior ...

ACCRA, March 21 (Reuters) - Ghana's speaker of parliament has said President Nana Akufo-Addo's refusal to act on an anti-LGBTQ bill for the time being was unconstitutional and that parliament would ...