By Melanie Nathan, July 13, 2025
As can be seen from the the most recent report from Ghana, as well as the heated exchange in the Video therein, the matter of enhancing the criminalization of LGBTQI+ people with the harsh legislation that is now re-introduced into Parliament, is highly politically charged.
All this serving to exacerbate the current heightened level of persecution and violence experienced by LGBTI Ghanaians, causing many to flee the country, or attempting to flee, with few viable pathways to protection, safety and freedom.
The Parliamentarians are politicizing the abstention of Ghana on the vote in the United Nations Human Rights Council to extend the mandate for Independent Expert on the Protection of SOGIESC, in an attempt to assert the failure of the former President to attest to it, as if a pro-LGBT policy.
I am of the belief that by abstaining Ghana is navigating the tightrope between its extremely anti-LGBTI stand as a country, currently under scrutiny due to the international controversy surrounding the introduction into Parliament of the new Anti-LGBT legislation, versus its need for global funding, trade and loans involving countries which support LGBTI rights.
Read my report and see the video here
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