This article compares the Human Sexual Rights and Family Values Bill of 2021 with its 2025 version, highlighting key additions, deletions, and amendments debated in Parliament. A clear guide to Ghana’s evolving legislative stance on sexuality and family values.
2021 → 2025 Bill: changes & modifications
Comparing the Proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values Bill 2021 with the Human Sexual Rights and Family Values Bill 2025.
1. Title, scope & structure
2. Application clause (who the Act applies to)
3. Duty to promote human sexual rights and family values
4. LGBTTQAP+ prohibitions (core offences)
5. Procuration (s.7 → s.4)
6. Detention with intent (s.8 → s.5)
7. Keeping a brothel (s.9 → s.6)
8. Gross indecency (s.10 → s.7)
9. Void marriage (s.11 → s.8)
10. Propaganda / advocacy (s.12 → s.9)
11. Propaganda directed at children (s.13 → s.10)
12. Funding / sponsorship (s.14 → s.11)
13. LGBTTQAP+ organisations (ss.15–16 → ss.12–13)
14. Protection of children — adoption & fosterage (ss.17–18 → ss.14–15)
15. Duty to report & protection from extrajudicial treatment (s.5/s.22 → s.16)
16. Sections entirely removed from 2021 (not carried into 2025)
17. Key definition changes
