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GhanaGovernment asked to improve on Human Rights 08 May 2008- Ghana- Human Rights Non-Governmental Organisations in Ghana have expressed concern about human rights abuses in the country saying that even though the country is not doing badly...more
The Truth About Gay Guys
Briton charged over gay sex in Ghana 06 Nov 2007- Accra, Ghana- A Briton has been remanded in custody in Ghana for having sex with another man, the Foreign Office confirmed yesterday...more
18 July 2007- Ghana- "We have to hide ourselves if even walking in the afternoon, someone can throw stones at you," he said...more
31 May 2007- Ghana- The rights of gays and lesbians in Africa were left out of the 41st ordinary session of the African commission on human and people's rights due to a constraint in time, the ACHPS chairperson has explained...more
07 May 2007-
Ghana- The Presiding Archbishop of the International Council for the
Clergy, has lauded traditional African values that bar gay marriages and
other practices that are at variant with Christianity...more
Ghana visit should address gay rights 15 Nov 2006- Gay campaigner
Peter Tatchell has called on the government to raise the issue of human
rights with the Ghanaian President when he visits the UK in the next
parliamentary session...more
15 Sept 2006- The government of Ghana has banned
the organising and hosting of a Gay and Lesbian conference in Ghana. The
Conference, which had been scheduled for Accra in the third week of
September was to have been attended by Gays and Lesbians from all over
the world...more 11 Sept 2006-
Ghana- Places in and around the environs of the University of Ghana,
Legon, have become hibernating points for the gay men before the
forth-coming conference slated for first week in October...more
07 Sept 2006-The President of Gay and Lesbian Association of Ghana, Patrick McDonalds has noted that his association, which seeks the welfare of gays, lesbians and bisexuals in Ghana...more
Pentecost Church is shocked of Gay and Lesbians Conference
Ghanaian Daily Statesman jumps to defend homosexuals
04 Sept 2006- Ghana- Private legal practitioner and editor of the Daily Statesman has jumped to the defence of homosexuals in the country, questioning the basis of the decision to bar their planned conference...more
Ghana Bans Int'l Gay Conference
01 Sept 2006- Accra- The government of Ghana has banned an international LGBT civil rights conference that was to have taken place in the small African country later this month...more
Ghana’s Homosexuals want recognition 25 August 2006- Even though Ghanaians and the country's legal framework generally frown on same sex, there are many Ghanaians who have been "clandestinely" engaged in their sexual preference, but have now publicly announced their desire to be recognised...more Harassment and inequality for asylum seekers at UK detention centres Asylum seeking turns into a nightmare at the detention centre, if one would not even speak English then you are bound to face all the abuse and mistreatment inside the detention here in London...more
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Jan 2008- Ghana- Homophobia is negative feelings about people who
are (or appear to be) gay, lesbian, or bisexual...
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Mar 2007- Ghanaian gays in the United Kingdom are planning to meet
President Kufuor in a bid to get the government to amend the country's
laws banning homosexuality...
