{"id":234954,"date":"2026-05-31T05:13:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T03:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-parliament-passes-human-sexual-right-and-family-values-bill-2025\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T05:13:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T03:13:06","slug":"ghana-parliament-passes-human-sexual-right-and-family-values-bill-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-parliament-passes-human-sexual-right-and-family-values-bill-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Parliament Passes Human Sexual Right and Family Values Bill, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">Parliament of Ghana has passed the Human Sexual Rights and Family Values Bill, 2025, widely known as the anti-LGBTQ+ bill.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">The bill was passed after it was read for the third time on the floor of Parliament.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"12\">The legislation seeks to criminalise activities related to LGBTQ practices in Ghana.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"13\">However, lawmakers introduced amendments to exempt some professionals from punishment under the law.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">The exemptions cover legal practitioners, media professionals and health workers who provide services to&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202605300004.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"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>Parliament of Ghana has passed the Human Sexual Rights and Family Values Bill, 2025, widely known as the anti-LGBTQ+ bill. The bill was passed after it was read for the third time on the floor of Parliament. The legislation seeks to criminalise activities related to LGBTQ practices in Ghana. However, lawmakers introduced amendments to exempt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":234955,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00570947:66d08abdfd45c928cba8f8d0cd7b8661:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,7292,5203,4508,4509,3575,257,2412,9871,9796,254,10027],"class_list":["post-234954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bill","tag-family","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-human","tag-news","tag-parliament","tag-passes","tag-sexual","tag-south-africa-today","tag-values"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00570947:66d08abdfd45c928cba8f8d0cd7b8661:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234954","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=234954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}