A Ghanaian Member of Parliament has strongly defended proposed legislation aimed at intensifying criminal penalties for LGBTQ+ individuals and their allies. The Human Sexual Rights and Family Values Bill seeks to impose prison sentences not only for same-sex relations but also for the promotion, advocacy, and funding of LGBTQ+ rights. While proponents maintain that the law is necessary to protect Ghanaian cultural and traditional family values, international organizations and human rights advocates have raised serious concerns about its potential impact on fundamental civil liberties and individual safety.
- Ghanaian lawmakers are pushing forward legislation that imposes prison sentences on individuals identifying as LGBTQ+.
- The proposed bill also criminalizes allies, activists, and organizations that advocate for or provide support to LGBTQ+ communities.
- Supporters of the bill argue the measures are essential for preserving traditional cultural norms and national religious values.
- Human rights advocates and international observers warn that the legislation violates constitutional rights and international human rights standards.
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Amazing good man!!!! We salute you here from the UK sir. Its a disease thats spreading
The west should please stop interfering in our society. If we say we don't want a certain behaviour, please let us. You can please welcome any LGBT to your society.
They love to tell us to embrace other cultures and ways of life except when it goes against what they want.
There are more Africans in the UK than in the whole of Equatorial Guinea.
1.6m.
South Africa is ridding itself of illegal migrants without being called Right Wing Racists. 😅
Good for Ghana for not pretending to be something it isn’t, allowing individuals to make an informed decision about whether they want to live there. That’s the opposite of countries that have serious problems with racism and homophobia but refuse to acknowledge or address them.
And here we go again religious leaders picking and choiose whats sin or not. 😂
What about the Lesbians? These politicians need so much education. They are not even aware of the spectrum and therefore the nuances of sexuality.
Literal psychopath
This Ghana MP should be capped.
Are BBC finding out all cultures are not equal?
It appears the gay Ghanaian gentleman who has been given asylum in the UK, does not have a Ghanaian accent.
From the way that they talk about sexuality, one thing very clear. That is the ignorance about how human sexuality works. It is quite sad it is going to be hard to intervene in this situation cause they will immediately frame or perceive it as a threat to their culture.
These people are in the middle ages.
Everyone on here going on like we are so progressive and world leading. Yet it was only 50 yrs ago we were jailing people and medicating them for being gay. Its only a recent fashionable phenomenon to celebrate LGBT that we've jumped on that bandwagon and look down at other cultures who don't accept our flickering moral whims
The result of exported American "Christian" bigotry and hypocrisy. Tragic.
Good 👍
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Why didn't you interview a Muslim imam, why targeting the church.
Why don't you wrongens stay in the closet FFS. We got to bring up children in the world it's bad enough as it is trying to show them good things in our planet.
Using religion to persecute people, worlds going backwards, Aliens be rubber necking
i always find it peculiar when they highlight this topic. Of all the problems in Ghana, this is the one that is of most urgency? i highly doubt with this homophobic rhetoric that gay people are running around in Ghana and shouting from every rooftop. So you they are purposely seeking them out to do what exactly? What a pointless endeavor. And we wonder why Ghana and other parts of Africa and world are the way it is. Maybe because they are focusing on the wrong thing.
"They have to go we don't want them there" is exactly what Xenophobic groups in South Africa are saying about foreigners. The same xenophobic groups – in fact the same country- ghana is trying to get the AU to sanciton. For saying the exact same thing they say about gay Africans? Seriously? What a joke. Ghana is trying to speak for the whole continent but their argument isn't even consistent or coherent.
Colonialutopics are what destroys this world with their rhetoric colonialutopics are the sole reason for gov distrust and mass asylum.
When he is gonna talk about we don’t want corruption? He will blame Europe, but Europe left over 60 years ago.
1:42 spreading Colonial ideals which criminalized non conforming genders and religious ideals all over the world to divide the public on cultural identity vrs greed, displacement & preventable deaths. Indigenous cultures all over have historically depicted other genders, two spirits, etc.
This presenter has an agenda. The man said it’s a criminal offence to commit a gay act like kissing in public. You can control that you don’t have to kiss people in public whether you’re gay or not.
As a transwoman, and also a former churchgoer, I have every sympathy with genuine lgbt folk in Africa, the Muslim world, Latin America, and the US, – who have a significant and well-founded fear of discrimination, persecution and violence. This alone should be sufficient grounds to grant asylum. The problem is, (As BBC News exposed) a cynical industry of gaming the asylum system with fictitious claims of persecution on grounds of sexuality, is apparently thriving in UK. I believe that a tolerant and welcoming UK, should aspire to an orderly controlled, firm but fair migration system. However the exploitation of the asylum system is intolerable.
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The level of disrespect by the BBC once again. You interviewed one Ghanaian who could afford a flight ticket to travel to the UK for asylum and ignored 99.9%.
Maybe be you should run a poll on Ghanaians and see their views which I believe you actually did, would just not accept the outcome so you thought it wise to come and see it for yourself. We don't want your values, we'll keep ours and it has nothing to do with the Church.
😂😂😂 BBC can't you just leave this issue alone? Ghana has said NO to GAY. So what's all the fuzz about.
Next im sure youll do interviews like this with muslims, yes?
I bet this man has a lot to say about xenophobia in South Africa, which is just wild because a human is a human
Y'all don't understand our motherland Africa.
When I was a kid growing up in Senegal 🇸🇳 when kids see a gay person they start chasing you until the grown people comes out for a beat down
They say it’s the impact of the West whist they fail to recognize that Christianity and Catholicism is from the West. There’s a reason no one takes these people seriously
I have never seen the western media talking about this topic with the Arabian countries. I wonder why?
These are the same people pushing African unity but are hateful towards others
To the BBC journalist:
Being gay is not what you are because that's not how God created you.
People who are not proud of how their lord wants them to be of course become gay