Melanie Nathan, May 31, 2026 Friends, do you realize that Ghana has just passed one of the most extreme anti-LGBTQ laws the world has ever seen? While it does not carry the death penalty like Uganda's infamous "Kill the Gays" law, it may as well. This is social death. It is a law likely to send LGBTQI+ people, professionals, allies, advocates, family members, and human rights defenders to prison. What makes this law especially dangerous is that it criminalizes identity itself

AFRICAN HUMAN RIGHTS COALITION (AHRC) STATEMENT, May 29, 2026: Condemning Ghana Parliament’s Passage of the Human Sexual Rights and Family Values Bill, 2025 The African Human Rights Coalition (AHRC) unequivocally and in the strongest possible terms condemns the passage by the Parliament of Ghana of the Human Sexual Rights and Family Values Bill, 2025. This legislation represents one of the most sweeping and dangerous assaults on human rights enacted by a democratic legislatu

AHRC Staff, May 29, 2026 POST UPDATED:The Parliament of Ghana has passed the Human Sexual Rights and Family Values Bill, 2025, popularly known as the anti-LGBTQ bill, on Friday, May 29, 2026, following parliamentary proceedings in Accra. The bill now awaits the assent or otherwise by President John Dramani Mahama. On Thursday, 28th May 2026, the Committee on Constitutional and Legal Affairs presented its report on the "Human Sexual Rights and Family Values Bill" (the anti-LGB

By Melanie Nathan, May 22, 2026. Rightify Ghana has Raised Serious Concerns Over Exclusionary Public Hearing Process on Ghana’s 'Human Sexual Rights and Family Values Bill, 2025' (Anti-LGBTQ Bill) and African Human Rights Coalition, which provided an opposition submission on behalf of Ghanaian asylum seekers and refugees, to Ghana's Constitutional and Legal Affairs Committee, stands in solidarity with these concerns: Accra, Ghana — 22 May 2026 Rightify Ghana expresses deep c

By Melanie Nathan, May 23, 2026 Community Service Proposal as Part of Penalties Delayed Consideration of Anti-LGBTQ+ Bill — Majority Leader Mahama Ayariga Says Some MPs Raised Concerns About Harsh Punishments In my assessment of the following - I want readers to be aware that criminalization of LGBTQI+ people, regardless of the punishment, in and of itself, causes stigma, fear of the "other" as in homophobia - and to such an extent that LGBTQI+ people in such environments are

African Human Rights Coalition (AHRC) Statement on the Preferential Admission of White South Africans Under U.S. Refugee Policy The African Human Rights Coalition (AHRC) strongly condemns the growing inequity and racial disparity reflected in the United States’ preferential refugee admissions policy toward white South Africans under the Trump administration. The decision to fast-track thousands of white South Africans into the United States under claims of an “emergency refug

By Melanie Nathan - May 18, 2026. What is being packaged as a defense of “African sovereignty” is, in reality, a modern colonial coup against Africa’s own constitutional and human rights traditions. As Professor Jeffrey Haynes argues, the ideological engine, financing, and strategic direction behind the so-called “Family Values” movement are not organically African, but are driven by Western far-right Christian nationalist networks seeking to export their culture wars into A

By Melanie Nathan, May 17, 2026 The reintroduction of Ghana’s Human Sexual Rights and Family Values Bill, 2025 represents one of the most sweeping attempts in modern Africa to criminalize not merely same-sex conduct, but identity itself, together with advocacy, association, support, expression, and public existence. The Bill and its accompanying Memorandum frame the legislation as a defense of sovereignty, public morality, religion, and Ghanaian cultural values against what i

By Melanie Nathan, African Human Rights Coalition May 17 2026 International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia (IDAHOBIT 2026) Today, on IDAHOBIT 2026, the African Human Rights Coalition (AHRC) stands in solidarity with LGBTQI+ people across the globe, especially those living under criminalization, violence, forced displacement, religious extremism, political persecution, and social erasure. Across Africa and many regions of the world, and more so in the USA tha

By MELANIE NATHAN, MAY 14, 2026 The African Human Rights Coalition issues this unequivocal and urgent statement: the findings of the recent 300-page report by the Civil Commission expose, "Silenced No More, Sexual Terror Unveiled", with devastating evidentiary clarity, that the barbaric and depraved atrocities committed on October 7 were not incidental acts of war but a planned, systemic, tactical and orchestrated campaign of sexual violence perpetrated by the Palestinian rul