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For LGBTQ people in Ghana, the problems may only just be beginning. As of April, Rightify had recorded more than 30 cases of violence and discrimination against LGBTQ people in the country ...
Johannesburg — Ghana's parliament approved a highly controversial anti-LGBTQ bill on Wednesday after months of debate. The Human Sexual Rights and Family Values bill is one of the toughest ...
Outright echoed Amnesty International's January warning about the threat of anti-LGBTQ laws in Ghana, Uganda, and other African countries. In Africa, 32 out of 54 countries criminalize gay sex, ...
LGBTQ people in Ghana are fearing for their safety, as the country looks to pass a wide-ranging anti-LGBTQ bill that some groups have labeled one of the most stringent on the continent. Activists ...
The bill will become law soon enough unless the president decides to veto the bill. Advocates are fearful, as some remember when the country had no issue with LGBTQ citizens.
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 to enact it ...
LGBTQ people in Ghana are fearing for their safety, as the country looks to pass a wide-ranging anti-LGBTQ bill that some groups have labeled one of the most stringent on the continent. Activists ...
Anti-LGBTQ content online was already gaining traction in the country in the five years before the bill, according to a report by reproductive justice organization Ipas, and advocates have said ...
Ghana's parliament approved the bill in February 2024 but then-President Nana Akufo-Addo did not sign it before his term ended and John Dramani Mahama took office in January.
LGBTQ people in Ghana are fearing for their safety, as the country looks to pass a wide-ranging anti-LGBTQ bill that some groups have labeled one of the most stringent on the continent. Activists ...
A proposed law in this country would require citizens to report LGBTQ people to authorities (CNN) — When Lariba was growing up in James Town — a coastal neighborhood in Accra, Ghana — they ...