In a public address on July 29, Ghana’s attorney general and minister for justice, Mr. Dominic Ayine, announced plans to expand access to legal education through sweeping reforms aimed at helping ...

(CNN) — Sam George, the driving force behind Ghana’s harsh anti-LGBTQ legislation, portrays himself as a guardian of gay Ghanaians. “I have put in legislation that protects the rights of gay people ...

Ghana’s Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld a six-decade-old law criminalizing gay sex as the west African country awaits another court decision on whether to introduce even harsher penalties in a new ...

Ghana’s Supreme Court dismissed a case filed against an anti-LGBTQ bill, bringing the proposed legislation closer to becoming law. A seven-member panel of the Supreme Court, led by Justice Avril ...

Speaker of Ghana Parliament Alban Sumana Bagbin speaks at the Parliament House in Accra, Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2024. Ghana’s parliament passed a highly controversial anti-LGBTQ+ bill on Wednesday that ...

Ghana's proposed anti-LGBTQ legislation is considered among the most stringent in Africa, stipulating jail terms of up to three years for engaging in same-sex ...

Ghana’s Supreme Court on Wednesday dismissed two preemptory challenges to a new “gay propaganda” law unanimously approved by the country’s Parliament and awaiting signature by the president. The Human ...

Ghana’s Supreme Court upheld a 64-year-old law that criminalizes sodomy, saying the statute is constitutional, while it continues to ponder the fate of even-harsher anti-LGBTQ legislation. A ...

Mr Akoto Ampaw, a legal practitioner said although the criminal libel law has been repealed among other laws to enhance the freedom of expression of the press, there are still challenges to media ...

Ghana’s Supreme Court upheld a 60-year-old law criminalizing gay sex on Wednesday. The court is also considering whether or not to make the penalties for having gay sex even harsher in a more recent ...