Ghana’s Leaders Push Back on Anti-LGBT Bill

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image A demonstrator attends a rally against a controversial bill being proposed in Ghana's parliament that would make identifying as LGBTQIA or an ally a criminal offense punishable by up to 10 years in prison, Harlem, New York, October 11, 2021. © 2021 Emily Leshner/AP Photo Influential people in Ghana are speaking out against the country’s dangerous anti-lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) bill. Last week, Samia Nkrumah, a former member of parliament and chair of a major political party in Ghana, urged the president to veto an anti-LGBT bill, calling it “brutal,…

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