It is a governing body with many non-binding measures, though it is not a GOVERNMENT or a Supra-state in and of itself, the organization does have some legally binding power for its participants, closely mimicking a semi-governmental parliament/congress in the Security Council, though most of it is debate and speaking, large amounts of its purpose and action is about international connections and enforcement of bare minimum rights that can lead to rebuke and sanctions from participant nations.

First of all, the people are not just the nation, they are all the nations, agreed upon and founded by all nations, such as the basic human rights that humanity uses as a guideline and basis of much of international law. These human rights include freedom from violence and oppression, and the laws against LGBTQ+ people in Ghana both promote, quell, and protect discrimination and public violence against gay people. Whenever these laws are kept in place, regardless of their purpose, it leads to targeted violence against those minorities, and often, the government stands by and does nothing, or worse, encourages it. That’s why these laws are troubling, both because the UN’s upper nations abhor these laws themselves, and because of the reactions it sustains and brings. Simple laws that ban gay marriage or penalize gay people for having relationships have led to an extreme amount of violence against those minorities, almost always promoting gay people’s own families attacking them or selling them out. I’d have less of a problem if these laws didn’t stir up hatred, but they do, and protections for gay people are a necessity for them to be protected from hatred and abuse for the mere crime of existence.