Posts Tagged 'human rights'

Gay Rights in Africa: Regroup, Recommit, Act, Learn

Gay Rights in Africa: Regroup, Recommit, Act, Learn

March 10, 2014

Well, that didn’t work.

With the recent signing of harsh anti-gay laws by the otherwise pro-Western presidents of Uganda and Nigeria, it’s time for the West to reassess how it can help advance LGBT rights in Africa.

And then take bold action.

Why Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni or Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan calculated they had to support the further criminalization of homosexuals is a good question.

Perhaps they needed to lock in the votes and money of conservative political and ...

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The Harper Government’s Foreign Policy Record

October 22, 2013

There has been a lot of noise about a new realism in Canadian foreign policy—principled, not going along just to get along—and it seems a great deal of rushing around the globe by the energetic Minister of Foreign Affairs, John Baird. But what do we have to show for all of this? There has been a flurry of comment in the last few weeks about Mr Harper not addressing the United Nations General Assembly fall session, unlike many ...

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