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Content Type(s): Insight

Topic(s): Legal Discrimination

Region(s): Malawi, Ghana, Namibia

Breakthroughs and the Bench: What We Can Learn From Last Year’s Rulings on Queer Rights in Ghana, Malawi, and Namibia

January 23, 2025

… Section 153 punishes “carnal knowledge against the order of nature” with fourteen years in prison. “Attempts” to commit unnatural offenses (Section 154) and “indecent practices between … the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family”—rights that “have for so long been denied to the people of Namibia by colonialism, racism and apartheid”—are … and thus unconstitutional. The Namibian decision was issued in the broader context of a long process of law reform. In 2013, Namibia’s Law Reform and Development Commission, commenced a …

Content Type(s): Press Release

Topic(s): Legal Discrimination

Region(s): Ghana

Ghana’s Anti-LGBTQ Bill Clears Supreme Court Hurdle, Threatening Lives

December 18, 2024

Content Type(s): Insight

Topic(s): Legal Discrimination

Region(s): Philippines, Ghana, South Africa, Viet Nam, Nigeria, Namibia, Ukraine

Advocacy Week Lauded as Time to Reenergize Activists

March 13, 2023

Content Type(s): Publication

Topic(s): Legal Discrimination, Crackdown on Activism

Region(s): Sub-Saharan Africa, Ghana

"We Deserve Protection": Anti-LGBTIQ Legislation and Violence in Ghana

October 22, 2022

… Protection": Anti-LGBTIQ Legislation and Violence in Ghana Submitted by apine@whereoware.com on Sat, 10/22/2022 - 19:23 The clampdown on LGBTIQ rights by political leaders and religious …