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Rightify Ghana is a human rights organization in Ghana. Focus: Advocacy | Community Empowerment | Media Monitoring on Human Rights | Document & Report Abuses
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🚨 Breaking News
The Parliament of Ghana has today passed the 'Human Sexual Rights and Family Values Bill, 2021' aka anti-LGBTQ Bill
On this date, February 28, 2024, a motion for the Third Reading was moved and seconded - paving way for the passage of the Bill
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Ghanaian Man Texas Kadir Moro Takes a Stand Against Anti-LGBTQ+ Bill
Yesterday, Texas Kadir Moro bravely led a one-man protest against the anti-LGBTQ+ Bill in Ghana, advocating against the imprisonment of LGBTQ individuals. Holding up powerful placards and delivering a...
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Anti-LGBTQ Bill: Samia Nkrumah - daughter of Kwame Nkrumah, first President of Ghana - is urging President Akufo-Addo
@nakufoaddo
not to assent to the "brutal, harsh, unjust law."
In an interview with
@Graphicgh
, she said "we don't need it" as we need to protect eachother.
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Lead sponsor of the anti-LGBTQ bill, Hon. Sam George falsely claims that the LGBTQI community in Ghana were asking for same-sex marriage; says what they do in their bedroom, they now want to "shove it down my throat" and "socialise my children"
🎥
@vpro
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...speech quoting from the Bible and Quran, Texas highlighted the hypocrisy of religious extremists pushing for the bill's passage.
Starting at Obra Spot in Kwame Nkrumah Circle, Accra, Texas marched through the city streets, culminating his protest at Independence Square...
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...where he addressed the media. He emphasized that while religious texts condemn fornication and adultery as sins, individuals engaging in these acts aren't jailed, questioning why the same leniency isn't extended to LGBTQ individuals.
Despite the contentious nature of his...
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Today, a Ghanaian man named Texas Kadir Moro took a bold stance by staging a solo protest against certain provisions of the anti-LGBTQ Bill, which he deems excessively punitive as he doesn't want gay people jailed.
With placards bearing poignant messages and quotes from...
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...protest, Texas received police protection to ensure his safety and smooth traffic flow. He announced plans for further demonstrations in Kumasi on April 30 and a massive one in Accra on June 4, 2024.
Texas appeals to President Akufo-Addo to consider amendments to the bill...
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...before assenting, urging for fair treatment and rights for all individuals, regardless of sexual orientation.
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"Is the Church and the mosque saying they can't do their work and that the State should come and save their souls for them?" - Prof Takyiwaa Manuh questions religious institutions 🔥🔥
Says, religion deals with "sins", State deals with "crimes"
Says Ghana is a secular State
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🚨 BREAKING NEWS
Anti-LGBTQI group has stormed a facility at Shiashie, near East Legon, which they claim to be "disguised in the name of skating" but is an 'LGBTQ headquarters' to recruit children into homosexuality.
The 'Islamic Youth for Peace' has called for a police swoop.
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"Your driver could be LGBTQ
Your tailor could be LGBTQ
Hairdresser could be LGBTQ
Your plumber could be LGBTQ
Your doctor could be LGBTQ
Your teacher could be LGBTQ
Your bestie could be LGBTQ"
Sister Deborah
@deborahvanessa7
in Angel Maxine's
@angelmaxinetv
'Wofie' ft
@wanlov
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'Gays and lesbians have not asked for same-sex marriage' - Professor Emerita Takyiwaa Manuh says the LGBTQ community is "only asking to be left in peace"
Went on to emphasize that people should stop confusing paedophilia with homosexuality; data shows who is a threat to children
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📆 Tomorrow will be exactly a week when Ghanaian journalists teamed up with the police to arrest 21 human rights defenders and participants of a Paralegal training at Ho, Ghana. They are still in remand. 💔
📋 𝙉𝙀𝙒 𝙃𝘼𝙎𝙃𝙏𝘼𝙂 𝘼𝙇𝙀𝙍𝙏 💥💥💥
Use
#ReleaseAllThe21
✊🏾🇬🇭🏳️🌈
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Advocates for Christ (AC) VS Ursula Owusu
Ursula Owusu: If there is no gay gene, is there a straight gene?
AC: Yes, there is no gay gene and there is no straight gene
The homophobic group admitting they lied.
The exchange between Ursula and him though
"This is how I talk" 🔥
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Anti-LGBTQI Bill Debate: 'Our language having a description for homosexuality means that it existed' - Hon. Ursula Owusu tells MPs during LGBTQ debate that they all know homosexuals in their communities
She urged MPs to craft a law that protects the human rights of all Ghanaians
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In a country where Freedoms of Speech and Expression are protected by the Constitution, it has become increasingly dangerous even for those demanding better living conditions.
We join calls urging authorities to ensure
#JusticeforKaaka
&
#FixTheCountry
because
#WeAreAllKaaka
✊🏾
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🗣️ “I ask, tomorrow, if an individual in Ghana wishes to criminalise sex before marriage or the act of side chick and side boo, would the clergy and the entire nation support it like we are for the LGBTQ+ bill? Let’s be consistent, fair and unbiased in the decisions we make as...
Today, a Ghanaian man named Texas Kadir Moro took a bold stance by staging a solo protest against certain provisions of the anti-LGBTQ Bill, which he deems excessively punitive as he doesn't want gay people jailed.
With placards bearing poignant messages and quotes from...
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You claim LGBTQI is a "foreign culture", "un-African", "un-Ghanaian"?
Prof Emerita Abena Takyiwaa Manuh shreds Bishop Gordon Kisseih and other religious leaders for using foreign religions to hate LGBTQ people, while appearing un-Ghanaian 🔥
She schooled them again on SOGIESC
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"I am against criminalising LGBTQ" - Prof. Emerita Takyiwaa Manuh educates Ghanaians again to stop confusing paedophilia with homosexuality
She went on to shred the anti-LGBTQI+ Bill which contravenes parts of Ghana's constitution especially Article 108
🎥
@GTV_Ghana
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Anti-LGBTQ Bill: Samia Nkrumah - daughter of Kwame Nkrumah, first President of Ghana - is urging President Akufo-Addo
@NAkufoAddo
not to assent to the "brutal, harsh, unjust law."
In an interview with
@Graphicgh
, she said "we don't need it" as we need to protect eachother.
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"If tomorrow a majority of Ghanaians wake up and they say that left-handed people should lose their limbs, will Parliament feel compelled to pass such a law" - Prof Takyiwaa Manuh questions the intention and claim that a majority of Ghanaians are against LGBTQI
LGBTQ | LGBT
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Anti-LGBTQI Bill Debate: 'Even under the current law of unnatural carnal knowledge, anal sex and oral sex are criminal' - Hon. Ursula Owusu reminds MPs cheering the anti-LGBTQ Bill that engaging in oral (BJ) and anal sex with your wife or girlfriend is as criminal as gay sex
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'I consider LGBTQ+ as a human rights issue'- USA VP Kamala Harris says she feels strongly about the importance of supporting freedom and equality
'Anti-LGBTQI Bill is not an official legislation from the government' - President Nana Addo
They told journalists today
🎥
@GTV_Ghana
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JUST IN🔥🔥
Ghana's Attorney General and Minister of Justice publicly comments on anti-LGBTQI Bill
👉🏾 Referred to it as "far-reaching in nature"
👉🏾 On sexual orientation, he said "The State abhors all forms of violence and brutality targeted at all persons in Ghana"
🎥
@TheMFWA
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Even before Ghanaians know the outcome of the anti-LGBTQI+ Bill, Ama Governor's sad situation is an example of how the Bill will negatively impact people's lives.
Just by exercising her freedom of speech on social media, the Ghana Legal Council has denied her a call to the bar.
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LGBTQ+: Cardinal Peter Turkson told BBC's
Stephen Sackur on HARDtalk that:
➡️ LGBTQI+ should not be criminalised
➡️ Ghanaian culture has always had expressions and terms for homosexuality, not completely alien
➡️ There's a need for more education on sexuality
➡️ Backlash is a...
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Ghanaian musician, film director, LGBTQI+ ally and environmental activist,
@wanlov
paid a solidarity visit to police stations where the 21 arrested persons are being held.
He shares his experience and calls for help to
#ReleaseThe21
Thank you
@wanlov
#ReleaseAllThe21
#FreeThe21
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She believes that people who fear gays need education.
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Congratulations to Elorm Ababio, popularly known as Ama Governor,
@Ama_governor
on being officially called to the Bar during the 2024 Mini Call ceremony at the Accra International Conference Centre. This remarkable achievement is a...
🎥
@ghonetv
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💥 Hon. Ursula Owusu
@UrsulaOw
shreds Sam George for accusing her of not reading his far-reaching anti-LGBTQI bill
Earlier, Hon. Ursula Owusu questioned why the proponents of the anti-LGBTQ bill defined intersex as a "biological anomaly" but aim to criminalise it.
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Rightify Ghana Condemns Passage of Ghana’s Anti-LGBTQ Bill
Rightify Ghana urges President Nana Addo Dankwah Akufo-Addo
@NAkufoAddo
to reject this discriminatory Bill. We call on him to uphold the values of democracy and protect the supremacy of the Constitution of Ghana.
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"I will beat him" - Ningo Prampram MP, Sam George threatens the Australian High Commissioner to Ghana
@AusAmbGHA
He attacked his origins/identity, allegeding that he is lobbying for the legalisation of LGBTQI in Ghana.
This is not the first time Sam George has attacked him
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US denies visa to Ugandan MP who called for homosexual castration
Activists welcome sanction on Sarah Achieng Opendi and other legislators against a backdrop of anti-LGBTQ+ oppression in Africa
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Whilst his misogyny is not new, it's unethical and unprofessional how journalist, Captain Smart verbally abused Kamala Harris during his live morning show today
He also threatened to mobilise the youth against government ministers, called President Nana Addo a "fake Christian"
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Massive attendance, as Ghanaians and other Africans in the UK, as well as allies, protest at the Ghana High Commission in London - as part of global actions calling on President Akufo-Addo
@NAkufoAddo
to reject the anti-LGBTQ Bill
#6thMarch
#GhanaAt67
#QueerGhanaianLivesMatter
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Keep Your Religious Sentiments To Yourselves – Kwesi Pratt Tells Anti- LGBTQ Campaigners
According to him, Ghana is a secular state hence it’s wrong for any person to enact laws on a religious basis.
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Yesterday, protesters gathered at the Ghana High Commission in London to urge President Akufo-Addo to reject the anti-LGBTQ Bill
"We have been ostracized and marginalised. We've been hurt, we've been tortured, we've been persecuted" - Phyll Opoku-Gyimah
@MsLadyPhyll
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We are calling on the Ghana Police Service to
#ReleaseThe21
persons arrested yesterday at Ho, for holding a training programme.
Yesterday, the press teamed up with the police to storm the meeting location, started taking images, took their belongings and arrested them.
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"You cannot stop people from advocating for something to be recognized by the law" - MP for Bawku Central, Hon Mahama Ayariga speaks against anti-LGBT attacks and closure of
@LGBTRightsGhana
office, backs argument with Freedoms of Speech, Association,... in Ghana's Constitution
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In a JHS at Madina, an anti-LGBTQI mob stormed the school with intent to kill two gay students. Police arrested the alleged gays, as students hooted
Read our full report on how discriminatory policies and violence cut short education of LGBTQ Ghanaians
🔗
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LGBTQ+: Most Rev. Matthew Gyamfi, Bishop of Sunyani & President of the Ghana Catholic Bishops Conference, has backed calls made by Cardinal Peter Turkson and stated that the stance of the Catholic Church in Ghana is that "we should not criminalise homosexuality and homosexuals"
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Prof Takyiwaa Manuh schools Ghana's Parliament, homophobic Coalitions on sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, and sex characteristics (SOGIESC)
She also urged the Parliamentary Committee to take note of disinformation, as anti- LGBTQI groups don't argue with facts
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LGBTQI+ Ghanaians just want to go to school‼️
LGBTQI+ Ghanaians just want to be able to access health care‼️
LGBTQI+ Ghanaians just want to work and have careers‼️
LGBTQI+ Ghanaians just want to love and be loved‼️
LGBTQI+ Ghanaians just want to live and thrive ‼️
🇬🇭🤝🏿🏳️🌈
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Elorm Ababio, better known as Ama Governor
@Ama_governor
, has officially been called to the Bar!
At the 2024 Mini Call ceremony on May 31, 2024, at the Accra International Conference Centre, she marked the end of a challenging journey. Her induction was signed off by the...
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A set of homophobic laws known as the Penal Code was exported from Britain to its colonies, including Ghana.
So yeah, let's use colonial legacies to prescribe moral codes and persecute LGBTQ persons. The unfair treatment done to Ama Governor...
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Protest‼️Protest ‼️Protest ‼️
The 'LGBTQIA Ghana Solidarity' group in London, UK, is organising a protest at the Ghana High Commission, against the anti-LGBTQ bill presented to Parliament by 8 MPs and a homophobic Coalition.
It's happening this Saturday at 2pm ✊🏾🇬🇭🏳️🌈
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Homosexuality should not be criminalised – Catholic Church in Ghana affirms
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THREAD: Anti-LGBTQI Coalition & MPs, Sam George and Rockson-Nelson Dafeamekpor visit site; urge the IGP of Ghana police and the MCE of the area to pull down a billboard by
@LGBTRightsGhana
which is calling for equal love and true freedom for all Ghanaians (not only LGBTQ persons)
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People claiming to be protecting 'African Family Values ' are being lectured by white US Evangelicals and extremist groups about 'African Family Values.'
What these anti-gender/anti-gay people are not telling citizens is who is funding and ghostwriting their hate Bills.
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Ghanaian Highlife Hiplife Artist, Mr. Nsia Appau, known in entertainment circles as Okyeame Kwame, has spoken out against the ill-treatment of LGBTQIA+ individuals in Ghana and Africa at large.
Via
@thegbcghana
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𝙏𝙃𝙍𝙀𝘼𝘿
The "Proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values Bill" and its implications on the LGBTQ community and the general public.
First, let's focus on persons this hate bill hopes to criminalize and deny their existence and basic rights.
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British actress of Ghanaian descent, Michaela Coel
@MichaelaCoel
speaks on playing queer character in
#BlackPanther
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🗣️ "To portray a queer character from Ghana, where there is a lot of confusion, LGBTQI+ laws coming on" and for her, "it was about what I represent in Ghana."
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#UGANDA
🇺🇬: "Let's not make a mistake, paedophilia and homosexuality is not the same thing. And it is well established that the majority of pedophiles are heterosexual." - Prof Slyvia Tamale in defence of gay rights; told Uganda's MPs that the draft anti-gay bill is unnecessary
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The 'L' in LGBTI+ stands for Lesbian.
#LesbianVisibilityDay
is to celebrate lesbian role models, to raise awareness & inform allies regarding varied experiences of lesbians, and to recognise diversity amongst lesbians. We believe visibility is important in solving discrimination.
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Edwin Chiloba didn't deserve to die or have their beautiful life taken by anyone.
@RightifyGhana
stands in solidarity with the LGBTQI+ community in Kenya as they mourn yet another lost community member, activist, friend or family.
#JusticeForChiloba
#JusticeForEdwinChiloba
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Journalists were the first to storm the place, started taking photos, took their notepads, flip charts, puller banner, books, then locked them while calling the police
The worried victims started crying for help, but today a judge has remanded the 21 queer persons
#ReleaseThe21
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VIDEO 🎥: CNN investigations have found that Ghanaian Churches who back the anti-LGBTQI Bill, receive funding from the West
Also, in this report, evidence of violence against LGBTQI+ Ghanaians were detailed.
Via:
@nimaelbagir
@cnni
@CNNAfrica
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Kendrick Lamar fans praise ‘groundbreaking’ new track ‘Auntie Diaries’ for look at transgender issues 🏳️🌈🏳⚧
🗣️ "The day I chose humanity over religion, the family got closer"
#MrMoraleAndTheBigSteppers
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𝙏𝙃𝙍𝙀𝘼𝘿
The "Proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values Bill" and its implications.
Simplified to help you know more about the bill and why is it harmful to LGBTQI persons, doesn't make economic sense and undermines Ghana's democratic credentials.
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As we celebrate
#PrideMonth
, let's remember the queer community in Africa
From jailing trans womxn in Cameroon to police raids & arrests in Ghana including
#ReleaseThe21
; and yesterday's police arrest of 44 queer persons in Uganda. We demand
#ReleaseThe44
#PrideMonth2021
#pride
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What he said:
🗣️ “I ask, tomorrow, if an individual in Ghana wishes to criminalise sex before marriage or the act of side chick and side boo, would the clergy and the entire nation support it like we are for the LGBTQ+ bill? Let’s be consistent, fair and unbiased in the...
Ghanaian Man Texas Kadir Moro Takes a Stand Against Anti-LGBTQ+ Bill
Yesterday, Texas Kadir Moro bravely led a one-man protest against the anti-LGBTQ+ Bill in Ghana, advocating against the imprisonment of LGBTQ individuals. Holding up powerful placards and delivering a...
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'LGBTQI+ Bill still rigid and tough' - Sam George takes aim at USA VP, Kamala Harris and President Nana Addo in reaction to comments made by the two at a press briefing today
The MP tells the President that the anti-LGBTQ Bill has not been watered-down
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Machete-wielding man threatens to behead gay persons in Ghana
We have sighted a viral video of a man with a machete threatening that "anyone we find physically to be gay, we will behead them. I will sacrifice my life or you have to put me in prison."
@GhPoliceService
must act‼️
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While we continue to fight against Ghana's far-reaching anti-LGBTQI+ Bill, let's stand in solidarity with the LGBTQI+ communities in Kenya and Uganda. They are under attack with anti-gay Bills, increased hate speech in media spaces and social media, and others.
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Excerpts from public sitting on anti- LGBTQI bill
'Show us in the Constitution where you have the right to have heterosexual sex' - Prof H. Kwesi Prempeh, Executive Director of
@CDDGha
, questions proponents of anti- LGBTQ bill
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Ghanaian reggae dancehall musician Shatta Wale
@shattawalegh
supports LGBTQI Ghanaians AGAIN ✊🏾🇬🇭🏳️🌈
According to Shatta Wale, he has fans who are gays and lesbians, and doesn't believe it would be fair for him to discriminate against LGBTQ persons, says "it's a free world"
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Excerpts from public hearing on Ghana’s anti-LGBTQI bill
Hon. Ursula Owusu
@UrsulaOw
questions why and how Sam George and other proponents of the anti-LGBTQ bill wants intersex people criminalized.
The bill wants parents to send intersex children to "approved service providers"
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🚨 TRIGGER WARNING
At this time last week, the Director of
@RightifyGhana
was being held hostage by seven homophobic men at an area in the Ashanti region of Ghana.
He was beaten and threatened with a knife by the men who demanded for a ransom to paid before releasing him.
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UGANDA 🇺🇬: Professor Sylvia Tamale defends gay rights, tells Uganda's Parliamentary Committee handling their 'Anti-Homosexuality Bill 2023' that they shouldn't confuse paedophilia with homosexuality
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PHOTOS: Another protest held at Ghana Consulate in New York against the anti-LGBTQ bill presented to Parliament by 8 anti-LGBTQI MPs and a homophobic Coalition
The protestors are urging Ghana's Parliament and government to reject the far-reaching hate bill
Thanks speaking out✊🏾
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𝙏𝙃𝙍𝙀𝘼𝘿: Member of 'MPs Against LGBTQI' in Ghana, Sam George makes homophobic comments, says
* LGBTQI+ is a "mental disorder"
* Anti-LGBTQ bill to be tabled in Parliament soon to criminalise it
* The bill will include Conversion Therapy
* He will beat up
@AusAmbGHA
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"Shame on you" - Mother of Ghana's transgender musician, Angel Maxine
@angelmaxinetv
has slammed anti-LGBT religious leaders, tells them that they have LGBTQI+ persons in their churches
She said this in their new year message to the LGBTQ community
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'I don't support criminalisation of LGBTQ persons' - Hon. Alexander Afenyo Markin, Deputy Majority Leader
A Catholic himself, the MP has said his views are in line with the Catholic Church in Ghana. Cardinal Peter Turkson and the Ghana Catholic Bishops' Conference have spoken...
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🚨 BREAKING NEWS:
Ghana's anti-LGBTQ bill has officially been presented to Parliament after its first reading in the House.
The 'Proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values Bill' has now been referred to the Constitution and Legal Affairs Committee of the house
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"Anybody who hears this voice should kindly help us. We are currently in a training... and reporters just barge in and say we are having an LGBT conference and they are taking pictures and things of us. Kindly help us. Spread this message." - One of the 21 on May 20
#ReleaseThe21
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🚨 21 Queer Activists Denied Bail for the 4th Time, Now Remanded into Prison After 19 Days in Police Cells
The Circuit Court judge says since a High Court remanded them, he can't grant the bail, even though the prosecutors did not object to it.
#ReleaseThe21
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Hoping to see a better Ghana where LGBTIQ+ people would also feel safe to live, grow and thrive in the country, transgender musician and activist, Angel Maxine
@angelmaxinetv
shares her lived experienced and challenges she went through in the country.
📽️
@enriqueanarte
@Openly
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Anti-LGBTQI bill: "We will resist other bills, even if it is to provide water in Asawasi" - Hon Mohammed-Mubarak Muntaka
The Minority Chief Whip and MP for Asawasi constituency says he is ready to deny his people water, if the Chairman of the Committee handling anti-LGBTQ delays
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London: Protest against anti-LGBTQ Bill
"They might have written a bill today, and we don't care if the President signs it or not, because one by one we will reclaim our Africa. And we won't reclaim it pretending to be straight" - Bisi Alimi
@bisialimi
said in a message of hope
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Excerpts from public sitting on anti- LGBTQI bill
'Silence on recent violent attacks on LGBTQ Ghanaians exposes hypocrisy of proponents, religious authorities' - Lawyer Akoto Ampaw told the Constitutional, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Committee of Ghana's Parliament
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BREAKING NEWS 🔥🔥🔥
Speaker, Attorney General dragged to court over Anti-LGBTQ+ bill and its fiscal impact
A private citizen, Paul Boama Sefa - who is suing them - is alleging that the two have breached portions of Ghana’s constitution...
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🗣️ "Love Can Not Be Legislated"
The Presidential Candidate for the Progressive People's Party (PPP) in the 2020 general elections, Brigitte Dzogbenuku, says she is against laws being passed against people who are LGBTQ+
She quizzed that "why would people choose certain kinds...
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📋Update on
#ReleaseThe21
Ho 21 Granted Bail After 22 Days in Police Custody
The 21 human rights defenders & participants of a community empowerment activity, whom journalists teamed up with the police to arrest on May 20, have been granted bail
More soon
#JusticeForTheHo21
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Ghana: Anti-LGBTQ morality police are now gunning for straight people too
Via
@thecontinent_
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Prof Emerita Abena Takyiwaa Manuh slams religious institutions for preaching "abstract love" in church and not showing real love to vulnerable people including LGBTQI Ghanaians
She criticised their silence on the increased violent attacks on LGBTQ persons.
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As if the anti-gay laws inherited through the British colonial legacy wasn't enough, the LGBTQI community in Ghana and other African countries are now battling religious hate groups from the USA who are funding and ghostwriting anti-LGBTQI bills like the one in Ghana.
#Resist
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Ghana's Chief Psychiatrist supports anti-LGBTQI bill, promotes so-called Conversion Therapy
Dr. Akwasi Osei is the CEO of the State's Mental Health Authority and the former Medical Director of the Accra Psychiatric Hospital.
He's a member of the homophobic Coalition.
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"All the gays and lesbians whether you like the alphabets or not, they have not been imported, they are Ghanaians" - Professor Emerita Takyiwaa Manuh argues that LGBTQ is not alien to the Ghanaian culture
She made a case against the "LGBTQI is not our culture" claim
🎥
@GTV_Ghana
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Anti-LGBTQ Bill: ‘I find criminalisation difficult; discussions going wrong way; God is in everyone’ – Ghana's Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta speaks on the anti-LGBT bill
He says he doesn't believe that "criminalisation" of LGBTQI persons and their lives is the way to go
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Hon. Sam George, 1 of 8 sponsors of Ghana's far-reaching anti-LGBTQI+ Bill, seems to confirm his links to US religious extremist groups as he attends Family Watch International (FWI) sponsored 'African Family Policy Conference' in Utah, USA
FWI is anti-gender and anti-choice.
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Update on
#ReleaseThe21
A Ho Circuit Court has dismissed the case against the 21 human rights defenders and participants of a paralegal training, who were arrested on May 20 for "unlawful assembly" and detained for 22 days by the police, after multiple bails were turned down.
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2024: Nungua Mantse supports 63-year-old Gborbu Wulomo's marriage to 12-year-old girl in the name of preserving culture
In October 2021, the same Mantse wanted LGBTQ+ people "picked up and burned to leave the face of the earth"
He wanted consenting adults killed for being gay!
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"Attacks on LGBTQ people and their rights can be a precursor to democratic backsliding, and anti-LGBTI stigma and policies may contribute to the weakening of democratic norms and institutions."
#killthebill
#QueerGhanaianLivesMatter
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THREAD: ✊🏾🇬🇭🏳️🌈
Former MP and private legal practitioner, Hon John Ndebugre slams Ghana's "absolutely unnecessary" anti-LGBTQI bill
He stressed that "we don't make laws based on speculation"
He warned Ghanaians that the bill has far-reaching implications, should be dismissed
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A huge win for the LGBTQ community in Botswana, as the country’s Court of Appeal has upheld a 2018 ruling, decriminalising consensual same-sex relationships.
Congratulations to the LGBTQ community, especially activists and those who led this good fight.
#DecrimBotswana
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A huge with for the LGBTQ group as Attorney General’s appeal is dismissed .
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