Young Peoples and Human Rights Ghana

The office of the British Prime Minister, David Cameron, says threats made by the Prime Minister to suspend aid to African countries that prohibit gay rights was in the context of the efforts of the British government to promote human rights around the world. Speaking to the Daily Graphic in London, Ms Helen Bower, a spokesperson at the Number 10 Downing Street Press Office, said “the UK Government is at the forefront of work to promote human rights around the world, and regularly criticise governments which violate those rights”. Reacting to media reports in Ghana in respect of the United Kingdom’s financial aid to the Third World and respect for human rights, Ms Bower explained that efforts by the British government included working to end religious intolerance and persecution, as well as discrimination against individuals on the basis of their sexuality. She said the issues were not only on gays as the Ghanaian media had contextualized it. At the just-ended summit of the Commonw...

By On Top Magazine Staff Published: September 01, 2011 Sam Pee Yalley, former deputy minister under Ghana's Jerry Rawlings administration, has called for gay people to be charged with genocide. In an interview broadcast Wednesday on Citi FM's Eyewitness News, Yalley denied Attorney General Martin Amidu's recent claim that sex between consenting adults of the same gender in the privacy of their own home is not illegal in the African nation. “There is another section of the criminal code which people are not taking a look at, it is about genocide,” said Yalley, a public interest lawyer. “Genocide results in the extermination of the human race and if you expand the meaning of homosexuality to mean that a man cannot have a child with another man, then it means that [the] practice would lead to the extermination of mankind and therefore for me if I am to charge anybody apart from having unnatural carnal knowledge, I would also charge him with genocide and see how he can get out ...