{"id":186959,"date":"2024-12-20T12:48:40","date_gmt":"2024-12-20T10:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-supreme-court-upholds-anti-lgbtq-bill\/"},"modified":"2024-12-20T12:48:40","modified_gmt":"2024-12-20T10:48:40","slug":"ghana-supreme-court-upholds-anti-lgbtq-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-supreme-court-upholds-anti-lgbtq-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana Supreme Court Upholds Anti-LGBTQ+ Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\"><em>The bill, which drew international condemnation, criminalizes sex acts within the gay community. Neither the outgoing nor the incoming president have confirmed they will sign it into law.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">The Supreme Court of\u00a0<a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/ghana\/t-64338684\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ghana<\/a>\u00a0rejected on Wednesday two legal bids to block a\u00a0<a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/how-ghanas-anti-gay-bill-impacts-the-lgbtq-community\/a-69562116\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">controversial bill<\/a>\u00a0that punishes\u00a0<a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/lgbtq-rights-in-africa\/t-65075097\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the country&#8217;s LGBTQ+\u00a0community<\/a>\u00a0for engaging in sexual acts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">Known as the Sexual Rights and Family Values Bill, the legislation was approved by parliament in February. It calls for jail terms of six&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202412200056.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The bill, which drew international condemnation, criminalizes sex acts within the gay community. Neither the outgoing nor the incoming president have confirmed they will sign it into law. The Supreme Court of\u00a0Ghana\u00a0rejected on Wednesday two legal bids to block a\u00a0controversial bill\u00a0that punishes\u00a0the country&#8217;s LGBTQ+\u00a0community\u00a0for engaging in sexual acts. Known as the Sexual Rights and Family [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":186960,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn09.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00371839:5bb5103bccca0ad287c055911b2966fa:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,46407,7292,6185,4508,4509,257,254,9498,8170],"class_list":["post-186959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-antilgbtq","tag-bill","tag-court","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-supreme","tag-upholds"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn09.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00371839:5bb5103bccca0ad287c055911b2966fa:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}