The Human Sexual Rights and Family Values Bill, 2021 will be reintroduced to the Ninth Parliament for consideration and passage, the Speaker of Parliament, Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin, has said. Describing the Eighth Parliament as history, he said all the businesses that were pending in the Eighth Parliament, including the bill, ended with that Parliament. […]
The Vice-President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, has declared his abhorrence of LGBTQI+ acts in the country, putting to rest any lingering debate regarding his position on the controversial subject. He said, “I will take this opportunity to personally comment on the raging issue of LGBTQI+ in Ghana. First of all, it is important to note that […]
The National Peace Council says it will continue to remain neutral on the Human Sexual Rights and Family Values Bill also known as the anti-LGBTQ bill. In a television interview in reaction to the controversy surrounding the passage of bill by Parliament last week, the Chairman of the National Peace Council, Rev. Dr Ernest Adu-Gyamfi said […]
The Christian Council of Ghana (CCG) and the Ghana First Coalition (GFC) have appealed to the President to assent to the Promotion of Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values Bill passed by Parliament into law. The request by the two bodies is a major support the passage of the bill has received amid the […]
The United States of America has expressed concern about the passage of the Promotion of Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values Bill, popularly known as an anti-gay bill, by the Parliament of Ghana. Parliament passed the bill on Wednesday, February 28, 2024. According to the bill, persons caught in the act would be subjected […]
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk yesterday said the passage in the Ghanaian Parliament of the “Human Sexual Rights and Family Values Bill, 2024” is profoundly disturbing. “The bill broadens the scope of criminal sanctions against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, transexual and queer people – simply for being who they are – […]
Let us not criminalise people for who/what they are; let us criminalize people for what they do! The Hardtalk Interview: Dear Readers, it has been brought to my attention that the response I gave to a question on homosexuality during a BBC Hardtalk Interview has upset very many in Ghana and probably elsewhere too. I […]
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 Values bill, currently pending in parliament. To them, the bill was in the right direction as it sought to enact laws against criminal homosexual acts. This was contained in a communique […]
Cardinal Peter Appiah Turkson, seen by some as a candidate to become the first African Pope in about 1,500 years has reiterated his position on why LGBTQIA+ should not be an imposition. In a Hard Talk interview with the BBC, monitored by Graphic Online on Monday morning, [Nov 27, 2023], Cardinal Turkson said although he thinks […]
The Supreme Court has dismissed an injunction application which sought to stop the Speaker of Parliament from allowing a bill that criminalises LGBTQ to proceed in Parliament. In a unanimous decision Wednesday, a nine-member panel of the apex court, presided over by the Chief Justice, Justice Gertrude Torkornoo, held that the applicant failed to […]
Pope Francis criticised laws that criminalize homosexuality as “unjust,” saying God loves all his children just as they are and called on Catholic bishops who support the laws to welcome LGBTQ people into the church. “Being homosexual isn’t a crime,” Francis said during an interview Tuesday with The Associated Press. Francis acknowledged that Catholic bishops […]
United States Ambassador Virginia Palmer says calls for the protection of the rights of persons of same-sex orientation should not be misconstrued as an attempt to promote such interests. Speaking on JoyNews‘ Foreign Affairs with Blessed Sogah last Friday, the foreign diplomat noted that discrimination of all kinds is bad, hence the need for social protection measures to […]
