I was in Ghana four years ago reading poetry from my book. Under the new bill many of the themes in my work and the work of countless artists are banned. Don't be fooled. They would enforce it all if they had their way.
You’d be forgiven for thinking this was a referendum on the very existence of Ghana's constitutional republic. If MPs and ministers missed that implication, why are they in government? If they didn’t, what is their intention?
LGBTQ rights. Women’s reproductive rights. Freedom of expression. Freedom of association. Assembly rights. This charter and this bill attack all of them simultaneously. This is not about one community. This is about all rights. #GhanaCheckYourAura#ProtectTheMaputoProtocol
...conference raises important questions about whose values are truly being promoted and whether this agenda is as indigenous and African as its proponents claim.
Ghana's Parliament is meant to represent all citizens. Why is a national institution suspending sittings for three days to host an anti-LGBTQ conference? This is a disgraceful misuse of Parliament and very disturbing. why is this being allowed?
All of this is a distraction. Ghana is facing far more urgent and pressing challenges that affect the daily lives of millions of citizens. We are dealing with poor roads, illegal mining (galamsey), recurring floods, corruption, pedophilia, sexual violence, the destruction of our environment etc.
Many people will say, “We can tackle multiple issues at once.” While that may be true in principle, the question is one of priorities. What we are choosing to focus on does not address the struggles the average Ghanaian faces every day.
We want to see this government take decisive and proactive action where it matters most like officials implicated in enabling galamsey removed from office and held accountable.
Our resources should be directed toward solving the crises that are actively harming citizens. Ghanaians deserve to see progress on the issues that directly affect our livelihood. There’s still a DCE who was exposed by Joynews for enabling illegal mining in his district that is still in office btw #StopGalamseyNow
a kind reminder that members of Parliament are currently on a 3 day vacation attending an Anti-LGBT+ conference when Accra is flooded and people are homeless and dying.
Yet another Ghanaian president made to endure the whims of hateful factions via the stupid hate bill, way beneath the station of the presidency and it's policy aims, so much that he's made to appear bigoted, rudderless, amateurish and derailed. It makes no sense
Mahama Details Executive Review Process Required for Controversial Anti-LGBTQ+ Legislation
Speaking during a Q&A session at Chatham House in the UK on Monday, June 1, President John Dramani Mahama said the Anti-LGBTQ+ Bill
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LGBTQ+ rights are human rights: Why Ghana's Bill is on wrong side of constitutionalism, human rights, history
Parliament may have passed the Bill, but constitutionalism requires more than legislative majorities.
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https://t.co/kfuM0MvT1W
"We're living in the darkest moment I've experienced on this planet."
Actor Richard Gere takes aim at Donald Trump at the Oslo Freedom Forum, warning the crowd of how quickly a 'dictatorship of the monsters' can happen.
"We have to be vigilant."
The seeming refusal to accept that MAGA/ Global far right/ white nationalists/ techno fascists have a playbook when they rarely deviate from it is wild
Not really. All see a long continuum of MAGA efforts to subvert multiracial democracy with coercion, chaos and division. Who can afford the illusion that this just fixes itself and freedom reasserts? Not the majority of Americans living this nightmare. Stop normalizing this shit