Ghana: Penalties for LGBTQ people. You face up to five years in prison.
Human rights organizations are sounding the alarm - and fear that the regulation could become a model in the region. According to HRW, 33 of the 69 countries that ban homosexuality are on the African continent. The law is seen as an expression of a new self-confidence and the rejection of supposedly Western values, says Larissa Kojoué, a political scientist for Human Rights Watch (HRW)