Anti-LGBTQ bill still has “long way to go,” Mahama says
President John Dramani Mahama says the country’s controversial anti-LGBTQ bill has not yet completed the legislative process and remains subject to constitutional and procedural review...
Tag : Human rights
Anti-LGBTQ Bill debate should focus on outcomes, not politics – Law lecturer
A lecturer at the GIMPA Law School has urged policymakers and the public to focus on whether newly enacted legislation can effectively address the problems...
Osei Owusu: removal of key clauses has made anti-LGBTQ Bill toothless
Ross Osei Owusu, a member of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) legal team, has expressed concern over changes made to the country’s newly passed anti-LGBTQ...
Anti-LGBTQ Bill: “smuggled” amendment claims raise serious procedural questions – Osae-Kwapong
John Osae-Kwapong, Director of the Democracy Project at the Centre for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana), has questioned claims that provisions in Ghana’s controversial anti-LGBTQ bill were...
Pregnant Ghanaian woman and son deported after week-long detention at US airport
A pregnant Ghanaian woman and her young son who spent more than a week in detention at Washington Dulles International Airport were being deported to...
Anti-LGBT bill: Parliament’s actions have vindicated Akufo-Addo, says Kofi Bentil
A Senior Vice President of IMANI Africa, Kofi Bentil, says former President Nana Akufo-Addo has been vindicated following Parliament’s passage of the Human Sexual Rights...
Parliament approves controversial anti-LGBT Bill
Parliament on Friday (29 May), passed the Human Sexual Rights and Family Values Bill 2025, commonly known as the anti-LGBT legislation, which seeks to criminalise...
Holding Abronye DC in custody legally flawed – Fokuor-Benyin
A private legal practitioner has questioned a court’s decision to deny bail to opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) official Kwame Baffoe, widely known as Abronye,...
Ghanaian citizen challenges EOCO, BNI bail conditions at Supreme Court
A Ghanaian citizen, Sophia Kokor, has filed an action at the Supreme Court seeking an order of the Court declaring as unconstitutional the practice whereby...
Speaker Bagbin pushes for passage of anti-LGBTQ+ bill before adjournment
Speaker of Parliament Alban Bagbin has urged lawmakers handling the Human Sexual Rights and Family Values Bill, 2025, to conclude work on the proposed legislation...