Human Rights Violations and Melissa Minor Peters

Melissa Minor Peters: But Northwestern University anthropologist Melissa Minor Peters noted in a 2014 interview with The Bilerico Project that countries like Canada and the United States exaggerate or trumpet their gay rights record in order to justify military and economic meddling in other regions, while papering over their own egregious human rights violations, according to NOW. But how can Canada take aim at the state of human rights abroad when we have our own ongoing history of violations and The death knell doesnt toll so loudly in our own backyard any more, and thus we often view news of homophobic discrimination and injustice elsewhere as evidence that other cultures are archaic. In February, shortly after Ugandas AHA was passed, Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird made Canadas position clear in an official statement: This act is a serious setback for human rights, dignity and fundamental freedoms and deserves to be widely condemned. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.