In a matter of weeks, Accra will host the Fourth Interparliamentary Conference on Family Values and Sovereignty. It is being presented as an African gathering of parliamentarians defending African culture and sovereignty. It is not!

This conference is foreign-financed and foreign-directed. Behind the local faces and the sovereignty language, the same foreign actors keep reappearing, and they are now in Ghana.

Sharon Slater, President of Family Watch International – a US-based organization designated a hate group – and Henk Jan van Schothorst, of Christian Council International, Netherlands, are importing their hateful anti-rights narratives into Ghana. Van Schothorst's organization publicly claims credit for drafting the so-called "African Charter on Family Sovereignty and Values" that this conference exists to advance.

That draft charter is what this is really about, a document designed to enshrine discrimination and roll back women's rights across the continent. The Accra conference is not a one-off event. It is the fourth in a series designed to forcefully insist on a document that Slater, van Schothorst, and their networks intend to submit to the African Union for ratification. Ghana's democratic credibility is being used to lend legitimacy to that agenda.

For over a decade, far-right groups from the US and other countries have poured vast sums, funneling money and anti-rights ideologies under the guise of protecting "traditional family values." All Out has been tracking and exposing this network through its Exporting Hate project. The Anti-Homosexuality Act in Uganda, the Human Sexual Rights and Family Values Bill in Ghana, and copycat ‘Family Protection’ bill in Kenya all bear these networks' fingerprints. This is not organic African policymaking. It is a coordinated import operation – hate laundered through the language of sovereignty and exported across the continent.

And it reaches beyond Africa. The same actors importing discrimination into the continent are working to undermine democratic rights in the United States and other countries. This is a connected global operation, and it requires a connected global response.

Accra is the latest stop. Africa is watching. The diaspora is watching. Expose this network and sign to say: we know who is bringing this to Ghana, we know what they are trying to build, and we will not let them do it in our name!