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2021 has been a particularly rough year for Ghana’s LGBTQI people. Police raided and shut down Ghana’s first-ever queer community center in Accra; 21 people attending a paralegal workshop in the city of Ho were unlawfully arrested and detained for 21 days before the case was dropped; In July, eight members of parliament introduced the Promotion of Proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values Bill 2021, which would proscribe and criminalize any advocacy of LGBT identity.

Actions:

Despite the severe suppression, the LGBT community in Ghana is fighting back - with a #KilltheBill campaign.

References:

https://www.bbc.com/pidgin/world-56197287

https://www.bbc.com/pidgin/tori-56183723

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-56860658

https://ghana.un.org/en/139914-draft-bill-proper-sexual-rights-and-ghanaian-family-values-bill-2021-analysis-un-independent

https://www.hrw.org/news/2021/09/20/ghana-lgbt-activists-face-hardships-after-detention

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ghana-lgbt-rights-trfn-idUSKBN2AO04Q

https://www.theafricareport.com/119670/ghanas-proposed-anti-gay-bill-presents-a-tough-call-for-akufo-addo-government/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oj-HtO9vLTc

https://www.instagram.com/tv/CPP_gW8DYJ6/?utm_medium=copy_link

https://www.instagram.com/tv/CKnnRP0p_HS/?utm_medium=copy_link