The 36-page Promotion of Proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values Bill 2021, which is yet to be considered by parliament, seeks to criminalise LGBTQIA+ activities in the staunchly religious West African country.
The draft bill also proposes punishment for groups and individuals who advocate for LGBTQIA+ rights, express sympathy or offer social or medical support.
Donkor said that being part of the LGBTQIA+ community in Ghana is like being a second class citizen, in which they live in a constant state of fear, and unable to live up to their full potential because of their sexual orientation. He said there had been individual abuses and violations on LGBTQIA+ persons with the arrest of 22 people in the Southeastern city of Ho earlier this year for attending a conference, as well as the unlawful arrest of 21 people in May by heavy handed police, for what the authorities deemed an “unlawful assembly” and advocating a “gay agenda”.
“We have been constantly ignored by state institutions and even the Ghanaian public at large with regards to the abuse against LGBTQIA+ persons.”
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