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Ghana

December 1, 2022

Ghana: Chaining People with Mental Health Conditions Persists

Ghana’s government has taken inadequate steps to end the chaining and inhumane treatment of people with real or perceived mental health conditions – psychosocial disabilities – in faith-based and traditional healing centers despite a 2017 ban on such treatment, Human Rights Watch said today.

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Disability Rights

December 1, 2022
News Release
Ghana: Chaining People with Mental Health Conditions Persists
LGBT Rights

September 6, 2022
Commentary
How Targeting LGBTQ+ Rights Are Part of the Authoritarian Playbook

Mauricio Albarracín-Caballero

Deputy Director, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Rights Program

Published in: Advocate
LGBT Rights

June 22, 2022
Dispatches
LGBTI Activists in Ghana Sue Over Abusive Arrest and Detention

Rita Nketiah

Researcher, Women's Rights Division; Researcher, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Rights Program

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Reports

September 20, 2021 Report

Ghana: LGBT Activists Face Hardships After Detention

Extreme Anti-LGBT Bill Stokes Hostility
May 26, 2021 Report

“I Must Work to Eat”

Covid-19, Poverty, and Child Labor in Ghana, Nepal, and Uganda
May 16, 2018 Report

Gambia: Ex-President Tied to 2005 Murders of Ghanaian and Nigerian Migrants

Ghanaian Groups Urge Prosecution of Yahya Jammeh
January 8, 2018 Report

“No Choice but to Deny Who I Am”

Violence and Discrimination against LGBT People in Ghana

News

December 1, 2022 News Release

Ghana: Chaining People with Mental Health Conditions Persists

Enforce Ban on Shackling; Provide Community-Based Services
September 6, 2022 Commentary

How Targeting LGBTQ+ Rights Are Part of the Authoritarian Playbook
July 14, 2022 UPR

Ghana: Submission to the Universal Periodic Review

July 2022
June 22, 2022 Dispatches

LGBTI Activists in Ghana Sue Over Abusive Arrest and Detention

Unlawful Arrests during Workshop Latest in Anti-LGBTI Campaign
June 22, 2022 Commentary

Progress and Setbacks on LGBT Rights in Africa — An Overview of the Last Year
May 20, 2022 Commentary

Ho21 Anniversary: Reflections on State-Sanctioned Violence Against LGBTI Ghanaians
March 9, 2022 Statement

Submission to the Special Rapporteur on Toxics and Human Rights

Mercury, Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining
March 8, 2022 Commentary

Homophobia is a Feminist Issue

An Urgent Call to Prioritize the Rights of LBQ Women in Ghana
March 2, 2022 Statement

Ghana: Submission to the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

15th Pre-Sessional Working Group
December 7, 2021 Commentary

On LGBTQ+ Rights, Ghana’s Bishops Choose to Ignore Pope

As the Catholic Church continues to make more inclusive comments about LGBTQ+ rights, the Church's leadership in Ghana supports a violent and repressive draft law targeting LGBTQ+ people.