{"id":35975,"date":"2026-06-01T15:06:41","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T13:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=35975"},"modified":"2026-06-01T15:06:41","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T13:06:41","slug":"ghana-lawmakers-approve-human-sexual-rights-bill","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/ghana-lawmakers-approve-human-sexual-rights-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana lawmakers approve Human Sexual Rights Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Ghana Parliament has passed the Human Sexual Rights and Family Values Bill, 2025 which is also commonly known as the anti-Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ+) bill.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The bill&#8217;s aim is to criminalise activities related to LGBTQ+ in Ghana.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The bill was passed after it was read for the third time on the floor of Parliament.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>It is expected to go through constitutional processes before it can take effect as law after the President&#8217;s assent.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;Channel Africa&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":30985,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-35975","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":"Ghana Parliament has passed the Human Sexual Rights"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/35975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/35975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35976,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/35975\/revisions\/35976"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=35975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}