Ghana's new president, John Dramani Mahama, announced that the controversial anti-LGBTQ law is effectively dead as it expired with the previous Parliament. While he initially supported the law, Mahama now seeks to foster dialogue with stakeholders before considering any new legislation. The proposed Human Sexual Rights and Family Values Act aimed to criminalize LGBTQ+ identities and associations, imposing severe penalties. Previous challenges to the law highlight its constitutional issues, raising concerns over human rights violations in Ghana's legal system before Mahama's recent statements.
As far as I know, the bill did not get to the [former] president for assent, and so the convention is that all bills that are not passed before the expiration of the life of Parliament expire.
I don't know what the promoters of the bill intend to do, but I do think that we should have on it again so that all of us, if we decided to move that bill forward, we move it forward with a consensus.
The Human Sexual Rights and Family Values Act would outlaw all forms of same-sex sexual relations as well as those between humans and animals, calling for prison sentences for LGBTQ+ individuals.
In addition to the claim that the law violates fundamental human rights enshrined in the constitution, the process by which the law was passed has faced multiple challenges.
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