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She characterized the bill as a brutal, harsh, and unjust piece of legislation. [54] On 12 March 2024, John Dramani Mahama, at the time opposition leader and former President (but since January 2025, the serving President once more), alleged that Akufo-Addo delayed signing the Anti-LGBTQ+ Bill over foreign aid dependency. [55]
Ghana’s parliament on Wednesday unanimously passed a controversial anti-homosexuality bill that has drawn international condemnation. “After three long years, we have finally passed the Human ...
ACCRA (Reuters) -Ghana's anti-LGBTQ bill could lead to a loss of $3.8 billion in World Bank financing over the next five to six years if it becomes law, derailing a $3 billion IMF loan package ...
The bill was presented before parliament in early August 2021. [75] Ghana's parliament is scheduled to reopen in late October 2021, after which a vote may be held. [25] The Presbyterian Church of Ghana have been very vocal about their support for the new proposed Anti-LGBTQ+ bill that is currently before the Parliament of Ghana. [76]
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 stop approving new ...
On 20 May 2021, a group of LGBT+ rights advocates (16 women and five men) held a meeting in the city of Ho in the southeastern Volta Region of Ghana. Meeting at a hotel for nurses and midwives, the group had met to share information on documenting LGBT+ rights violations in Ghana and had brought a number of flyers with them, including ones on "Coming out" and "All about Trans."
Ghana's Supreme Court said on Wednesday that lawyers battling over the legality of one of Africa's most restrictive anti-LGBTQ bill must amend their motions due to insulting language in their ...
LGBT+ Rights Ghana was founded in 2018 as a cyber activism blog. [2] In 2020, it created a social media page called "Ghana Gay Blackmail List" to fight blackmailing and extortion of gay men by cataloguing blackmailing incidents and providing a link for LGBT persons who have been blackmailed to submit reports.