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Ghana's parliament adjourned for recess without voting on a plan to toughen sentencing in the Human Sexual Rights and Family Values Bill, leaving the already-passed version sitting on President Mahama's desk unchanged.
On May 29 Ghana's parliament approved the Human Sexual Rights and Family Values Bill — the legislation that makes it a crime to be LGBTQ+. President Mahama, who has said publicly he will sign it, now holds the only remaining check.
Ghana's parliamentary committee held two days of public hearings on April 23 and 24 on the Human Sexual Rights and Family Values Bill — the legislation that would criminalize LGBTQ+ identity itself. Here's the state of play, with President Mahama now publicly ambivalent.
