Tag Archives: Ghana

‘To protect LGBTQ+ people’s health, we must protect LGBTQ+ people’s rights’ Ghana’s parliament (Photo courtesy of ISSAfrica.org) A group of progressive West African faith leaders have denounced a proposed bill in Ghana to jail every acknowledged homosexual, increase penalties for same-sex intimacy, and prohibit “promotion” of LGBTQ behavior. Meanwhile, the United Nations anti-AIDS agency (UNAIDS) issued a statement opposing a similar …

Nearly a year after explosive revelations about the controversial takeover of the Kiteezi landfill by Ghanaian firm Jospong Group of Companies, fresh information reaching Red Pepper Intelligence Unit indicates that the project has never taken off — raising even more serious questions about what really happened behind the scenes. Sources familiar with the matter now say the company that was …

Ghana’s bill would make it a crime to ‘hold out as’ LGBTQ.  Sam George, a leader of Ghana’s anti-LGBTQ partisans in parliament (Photo courtesy of Ghana Web) Ghana’s harsh Human Sexual Rights and Family Values Bill was formally introduced in parliament on Feb. 17 as a private member’s bill, Mamba Online reported. Meanwhile, Turkiye’s ministry of justice has reiterated its …

Hundreds of LGBTQ+ people in Ghana are targeted online by criminal gangs. A screen grab from a social media video allegedly showing a gay person who was attacked in Ghana. (Photo courtesy of The Guardian) The Guardian reports: By Carlotta Dotto and Kwaku Krobea Asante When a friend introduced Delali* to the dating app Grindr, she was wary. The 25-year-old …