Tag: Anti-gay bill
Ghana Catholic Bishops’ Conference Supports Anti-LGBTQI+ Bill: A Closer Look at...
The Ghana Catholic Bishops’ Conference has reiterated support for the anti-LGBTQI+ bill, known as the Promotion of Proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family...
Supreme Court Dismisses Request to Halt Parliament’s Consideration of Anti-Gay Bill
A nine-member Supreme Court panel presided over by Chief Justice Gertrude Torkonoo has dismissed a request that it halts Parliament’s consideration of the anti-gay...
Ghanaian Legislative Assembly Amends Anti-Gay Bill: Criminalizing LGBT Identity and Advocacy
The Ghanaian legislative assembly has reportedly amended the anti-gay bill, which criminalizes people to identify as LGBT and proponents for such an act.
According to...
Liberal Party calls for education rather than law to deal with...
The Liberal Party of Ghana (LPG) said government should place a premium on educating lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transgender, queer and intersex (LGBTQI+) as part...
Anti-LGBTQI+ Bill to be laid in Parliament today
The ‘Proper Human Sexual and Ghanaian Family Values Bill’ 2021, is expected to be laid in Parliament later today for a presentation and...
LGBTQI+ Bill good but needs review — Sosu
The National Democratic Congress (NDC) Member of Parliament (MP) for Madina, Mr Francis-Xavier Sosu, has called for a review of aspects of the draft...
Anti-LGBTQI Bill trying to solve non-existent problem – Gyimah-Boadi
The co-founder of the Centre for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana), Prof. E. Gyimah-Boadi, has described the draft private members’ Bill seeking to prescribe harsher sanctions...
10 key things Ghana’s anti-LGBTQI+ bill is proposing
The much-talked-about draft legislation by Ghana’s parliament to criminalize LGBTQI+ practice and advocacy in the country comes under the name ‘The Promotion of Proper...
Anti-LGBT Bill: All justification in support are not grounded in science...
A research fellow at the University of Johannesburg (UJ), Dr. Edwin Coleman, says Ghana’s Anti-LGBT bill has no strong justifications to stifle the individual...
LGBT feud: UK politician tackles Sam George on Twitter
A UK politician Seb Dance has hit back at Ningo Prampram lawmaker Sam George over his hard-line stance on LGBT rights in Ghana.
The opposition lawmaker has...