Eight gay Ghanaians in Canada are planning to petition to Canadian government to put pressure on Ghana to recognize the rights of Lesbian, Gay, Bis*xual, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ) members of our country.
According to the group, Ghanaian LGBTQ members are treated worse than animals and is calling for Canada to exert diplomatic pressure on Ghana to recognize their rights.
Nigerian singer M.I Abaga has stirred up a huge controversy with comments on the criminalisation of homos*xuality in his country.
M.I spoke in support of gay rights on a podcast, noting that the private s*xual orientation of grown men should not be his problem – and later defended that opinion on twitter after he received a barrage of criticism.
A woman in Saudi Arabia was arrested for wearing what many in the Kingdom describe as a ‘mini-skirt’ but which sane people everywhere else call a skirt.
A video circulating online of the woman, wearing the skirt, a crop top and without her hair covered, sparked outrage as many complained she was violating the Kingdom’s strict laws on dressing and morality.
When you realise that this is what passes for serious discourse in Ghana, you realise why we’re perpetually mired in the hole we’re in.
Abronye, and most Ghanaians like him who make this lame argument, have mounted up a huge strawman of bestiality against decriminalising homos*xuality, because they really have no good argument against it.
Speaker of Parliament, Professor Mike Ocquaye, has refused a call by Amnesty International for homos*xuality to be decriminalized in Ghana.
According to the Speaker, legalization of homos*xuality would lead us on a slippery slope down a path where bestiality and other vices would be legalized under the banner of ‘human rights’.
A majority vote in the German parliament has led to the revision of the country’s marriage laws to include a partnership between two people of the same s*x.
The vote ended with 393 MP’s voting for, 226 voting against and four MP’s abstaining.
A gay couple in Indonesia were caned 83 times in public after being caught having s*x.
The incident occurred in the province of Aceh, which lives under the dictates of Islamic Sharia.
OccupyGhana has condemned the actions of the principal of the Gushegu Midwifery Midwifery Training School, where a pregnant student was stopped from writing exams due to her condition.
The incident generated outrage, especially when it emerged it was not a national policy employed by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) but one employed unilaterally by the principal of the school.
This is the sort of tomfoolery that goes on in this country, under the guise of ‘purity’ and ‘morality’, whilst hurting the people these authorities are supposed to help.
What about being pregnant means one cannot fulfil their academic duties? Remember, we aren’t even talking about a Junior High or Senior High school (where it would still be wrong), but a tertiary level institution.
53 people have been arrested in the Nigerian state of Kaduna after they were rounded up by police for attending a gay marriage ceremony.
Police rounded up the attendees at the ceremony held at Zaria Motel in the town of Chediya-Zaria.
The question of gay rights remain anathema in deeply religious Ghana, and there’s no question public opinion is deeply entrenched against even raising the issue.
Those caught for committing the ‘crime’ of being gay face a raft of social punishments including lynching, prosecution or at the very least alienation from society.
A few days ago, I wrote the below in an article, totally unrelated to this post–but it fetched social media conversations around the existing statutory maternity in Ghana.
I stated that: “I got into a mini-phone fight with a friend of mine from Law School, she got married in Ghana and moved there to join her husband. 4 months after birth, she is going back to work–the reason she called me was to ask that she buys an electric breast pump and send to my address so that when I am coming to Ghana, I will bring it to her.
The Minister for Gender, Children and Social Protection, Otiko Afisa Djaba, has said she’s taking the issue of assault against a Ghanaian Marwako employee ‘seriously’ and outlined measures to take action on the incident.
Evelyn Boakye, who worked at the restaurant, allegedly had her face dipped in pepper by a supervisor, Lebanese citizen Jihad Chaabn, who happens to be brother in law to the restaurant’s owner.
In an obvious damage control measure, Marwako has suspended the Lebanese manager who dipped the face of a Ghanaian employee into pepper.
The company has been getting nothing but bad press since the story broke, especially with the foreigner assaulting a Ghanaian angle, so they have to do something about the issue.
Outrageous news out of Marwako in La as a female employee is mercilessly assaulted by her Lebanese supervisor over a seemingly trivial issue.
The employee, Evelyn Boakye, was held down and had her face rubbed in raw, blended pepper, by Jihad Thaabn, her Lebanese supervisor who is also the brother-in-law of the restaurant’s owner.
