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"With Ghana's 'Promotion of Proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family
Values Bill, 2021' set to undergo its second reading in the Ghanaian
Parliament, EFF and other civil society partners are calling on the government
of Ghana to immediately reject this draconian bill and commit instead to
protecting the human rights of all people in Ghana.
As we've said before, this bill is not only an assault on the rights of LGBTQI+
people to exist, but it also represents a grave threat to freedom of
expression. While Ghanaian law has long criminalized same-sex sexual
activities, the new proposal goes much further by threatening up to five years
in jail for publicly identifying as LGBTQ or "any other sexual or gender
identity that is contrary to the binary categories of male and female."
The sentence increases if the offending person expresses their gender beyond or
identifies outside of the so-called "binary gender." The bill also has a
blanket prohibition on advocating for LGBTQI+ rights and explicitly assigns
criminal penalties for speech posted online, and threatens online
platforms—specifically naming Twitter and Meta products Facebook and
Instagram—with criminal penalties if they do not restrict pro-LGBTQ content."
Via Rixty Dixet.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
