African lawmakers back push for tougher anti-LGBT laws after Ghana conference
Lawmakers from 18 countries approved a charter urging national laws to protect family values and restrict LGBT rights.
- Lawmakers from 20 countries gathered in Accra from June 3 to 6 for the African Inter-Parliamentary Conference on Family Values and Sovereignty, pledging to push new bills restricting LGBTQI+ rights across the continent.
- Ghana's parliament passed a bill criminalising LGBTQI+ promotion in late May, one of the continent's toughest measures, currently awaiting sign-off by President John Dramani Mahama despite procedural concerns.
- Eighteen of 20 represented nations approved the 'African Charter on Family, Sovereignty and Values,' urging governments to withdraw from international treaties seen as promoting the 'LGBT agenda' or abortion.
- Health officials warn that such laws push LGBTQI+ individuals into hiding, potentially worsening HIV prevalence; activists in Accra report heightened fear and self-censorship among residents.
- Henk Jan van Schothorst, executive director of Christian Council International, urged African governments to resist Western pressure, describing bans on conversion therapy as 'ideological colonisation' by foreign powers.
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African lawmakers back push for tougher anti-LGBT laws after Ghana conference
Lawmakers from more than a dozen African countries have pledged to push new bills restricting LGBT rights, after a conference in Ghana that brought together self-described “pro-family” activists from across Africa and Europe, participants said. The African Inter-Parliamentary Conference on Family Values and Sovereignty took place in Accra on June 3–6, a week after Ghana’s parliament passed one of the continent’s toughest anti-LGBT measures, a bi…
African lawmakers push for tougher anti-LGBTQI+ laws after Ghana conference
Lawmakers from more than a dozen African countries have pledged to push new bills restricting LGBTQI+ rights after a conference in Ghana that brought together self-described “pro-family” activists from across Africa and Europe.
African lawmakers back push for tougher anti-LGBT laws after Ghana conference
Lawmakers from more than a dozen African countries have pledged to push new bills restricting LGBT rights, after a conference in Ghana that brought together self-described "pro-family" activists from across Africa and Europe, participants said.
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Lawmakers from more than a dozen African countries have pledged to push new bills restricting rights, after a conference in Ghana that brought together self-described “pro-family” activists from across Africa and Europe, participants said. The African Inter-Parliamentary Conference on Family Values and Sovereignty took place in Accra on June 3-6, a week after Ghana’s parliament passed one of the continent’s toughest-LGBT measures, a bill crimina…
Hundreds of African delegates gathered in early June in Ghana decided on a draft charter on African family values, which claims to establish heterosexuality as a norm within the family, and to emancipate certain human rights obligations, particularly vis-à-vis women and LGBTQI communities.
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