UN has not Recognise LGBTQ+ as Human Rights issue – Advocate 4Christ Backs Bill in Parliament
Advocates for Chrisy, a Civil Society Organisation that focus on national development issues has called on parliament to disregard any claims of human rights surrounding the LGBTQ+Bill and ensure it’s passage without delayed.
According to the group, there is no such fundamental human right under the United Nation ( UN) and that the stance of Ghana against the description of LGBTQ+ activities is not abuse of any fundamental human rights.
Mr Edem Senanu, lead Advocate and Chairman of Advocate4Ghana said in their considered view, LGBTQ+ activities are not rights and therefore could not be part of human rights recognised by the UN where Ghana is a signature and had ratified
“There is nowhere that the UN describes these sexual preferences as rights and urged member countries to rectify it as such,” the group argued.
Speaking on the Human Sexual Right and Family Value Bill laid before Parliament and matters arising at a press conference in Accra on Thursday, March 30, 2023, Mr Senanu dismissed the description of LGBTQ+ as part of the list of fundamental human rights.
Responding to a question on Ghana’s anti-LGBTQ+ law at a joint press conference with US Vice President Kamala Harris, President Akufo-Addo said the bill, which is currently before parliament has been modified to take into account the protection of human rights and the feelings of the population and at the end of the process, “I will come in”.
The president told journalists: “First of all we don’t have any such legislation here in Ghana, a bill has been proposed to the Parliament of Ghana which has all kinds of ramifications which are now being considered by the parliament.
“It hasn’t been passed, so the statement that there is legislation in Ghana to that effect is inaccurate. No legislation.
“The bill is going through the parliament, it’s going through the parliament, the Attorney General has found it necessary to speak to the committee about it regarding the constitutionality or otherwise of several of its provisions and the Parliament is dealing with it but at the end of the process, I will come in.”
But the Chairman of Advocate for Christ, disagreed and the description of such sexual preferences as fundamental means it must be essential, must be inherent, vital and indispensable.
”These sexual preferences are certainly not indispensable, 80 per cent of Africans are against it”. he said
“There is no basis for describing LGBTQ+ as fundamental human rights,” he added.
He questioned: ‘If I choose to enjoy drugs then enjoying drugs must become a right?”
He stressed that admission of these sexual preferences portends intolerable injuries to the culture and religious way of life of Ghanaians
“These lifestyles are one we cannot afford in Ghana,” he noted
Source: expressnewsghana.com
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