Child Rights
Thrown out at seventeen: queer youth homelessness in Accra
Family rejection, not arrest, is what most often puts a young LGBTI Ghanaian on the street.
12 August 2026
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Human rights stories in Ghana
One place to follow what is happening to people's rights in Ghana. Each entry summarises public reporting and links to the original source so you can read it in full.
16 stories
Women & Girls
Six years after Akua Denteh was lynched, Ghana still has no law against witchcraft accusations
Amnesty International says the delayed Anti-Witchcraft Accusations Bill leaves hundreds of accused women, most of them elderly, unprotected.
23 July 2026
LGBTI Rights
International lawyers warn the anti-LGBTQ+ bill breaks Ghana's own constitution
The International Bar Association's Human Rights Institute says the law expands criminalisation far beyond existing statute and endangers defenders.
23 July 2026
LGBTI Rights
Blackmail as a business: extortion of queer Ghanaians on dating apps
Criminalisation gives blackmailers a guarantee that their victims cannot go to the police.
30 June 2026
Press Freedom
Fourteen arrests in sixteen months: Ghana's 'false news' law and free speech
Critics, commentators and journalists have been detained under Section 76 of the Electronic Communications Act, raising alarm about expression.
6 June 2026
LGBTI Rights
Parliament passes sweeping anti-LGBTQ+ law, and people begin to disappear from public life
Lawmakers approved the Human Sexual Rights and Family Values Bill, criminalising identifying as LGBTQ+ and the 'promotion' of LGBTQ+ activity.
29 May 2026
Police & Detention
The Ho 21: what happened to the paralegals arrested at a rights training
Twenty-one people were arrested in Ho in May 2021 for 'advocating LGBTQ activities'. The case still shapes how activists work today.
20 May 2026
Women & Girls
Amnesty's Ghana review: attacks on journalists, FGM, and witchcraft accusations persist
The annual assessment lists attacks on journalists, continued female genital mutilation, and threats to accused women's rights to life and health.
15 April 2026
Police & Detention
Deaths and injuries in police custody: the accountability gap
Families told us the same story: no independent post-mortem, no written record, and no officer named.
2 April 2026
LGBTI Rights
Human Rights Watch submits evidence to Parliament against the 'family values' bill
A written memorandum drawing on years of field research in Ghana was placed before the committee considering the bill.
30 March 2026
LGBTI Rights
Parliament revives the anti-LGBT bill after it lapsed
Reintroduced in February 2026, the bill returned with the same threats to nondiscrimination and free expression.
10 March 2026
Disability Rights
Ten years of the Persons with Disability Act, and buildings still have no ramps
Accessibility deadlines came and went. Enforcement did not follow.
5 March 2026
LGBTI Rights
The closure of an Accra safe space, and what replaced it
Police shut down the LGBT+ Rights Ghana community office in Ashongman in February 2021. Amnesty International called it an invasion of a safe space.
24 February 2026
LGBTI Rights
UN special rapporteurs write to Ghana over the bill's threat to rights
A joint communication from UN mandate holders raised arbitrary detention, education, expression, health and the protection of defenders.
20 February 2026
Land & Environment
When the river turns orange: mining, water and the right to health
Communities living beside galamsey sites are losing drinking water, farmland and health, with almost no route to remedy.
28 January 2026
Land & Environment
Rights groups set out what the government must fix
Amnesty International urged the incoming administration to act on gender equality, peaceful assembly, and the right to a healthy environment.
7 January 2025