Ghana's Parliament to host conference about how LGBTQ+ rights are against African "cultural values" - LGBTQ Nation

A four-day African inter-parliamentary conference in Ghana is scheduled to focus on African cultural values and family sovereignty. The event is supported, organized, and directed by right-wing American and European Christian nationalist organizations. Previous similar gatherings in Uganda were linked to the expansion of the death penalty for homosexuality. The Ghanaian Parliament announcement has drawn condemnation and controversy before the conference begins. Two Western groups, Family Watch International and Christian Council International, are identified as wealthy and influential backers. Christian Council International claims authorship of a draft “African Charter on Family Sovereignty and Values” intended to reshape social policy across Africa according to a Christian nationalist worldview.

"The latest iteration of the African Inter-Parliamentary "Family, Sovereignty and Values" Conference is scheduled to take place in Ghana next week, the Ghanaian Parliament announced, and it's earning condemnation and controversy days before it starts. Like the gatherings that preceded it over the last several years in Uganda, as that country passed its notorious Anti-Homosexuality Act that expanded the use of the death penalty in prosecutions for homosexuality, the four-day event in Ghana will assemble African leaders to discuss ostensibly African "cultural values" at a conference supported, organized, and directed by right-wing American and European Christian nationalist organizations."

"Behind the African faces and the 'protection-of-family-values-and-sovereignty' language are two wealthy and influential Western far-right organizations: USA-based Family Watch International, and Christian Council International from the Netherlands. Both organizations have Christian nationalist ties to groups in direct support of the Trump administration, like the far-right authors of Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation. That organization and Family Watch International (FWI) are closely aligned right-wing groups that collaborate on both domestic and global "pro-family" policy."

"Christian Council International (CCI) claims authorship of the document at the heart of the gathering, a proposed draft "African Charter on Family Sovereignty and Values", which has taken shape over successive conferences and would remake social policy across Africa to conform to a Christian nationalist worldview. The document mandate"

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