LGBTQ activists say Canada should ramp up its help in the fight against an organized movement to clamp down on sexual and gender minorities in Africa, while being cautious about when to raise issues in public.
"We are being bullied into silence," said Alex Kofi Donkor, the founder of LGBT+ Rights Ghana, on a visit to Ottawa.Ghana has outlawed homosexual acts since British rule, including under an existing criminal offence of "unnatural carnal knowledge." Human Rights Watch says LGBTQ people in the country face a climate of fear and violence.
And yet Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made no mention of the bill in the public portion of his meeting with Ghanaian President Nana Akufo-Addo two weeks ago on the sidelines of King Charles's coronation in London."There are times where we need that outward speaking and there are times where we don't."
Then at a joint press conference with Akufo-Addo, Harris was asked to comment on the bill by an American journalist, and called it a "human rights issue." Damjan Denkovski of the Centre for Feminist Foreign Policy in Berlin said Russian laws against "homosexual propaganda" are being replicated in other countries, and that Moscow derails United Nations investigations into human rights in various countries by claiming that the West is imposing on local values. Debbie Owusu-Akyeeah, head of the Ottawa-based Canadian Centre for Gender and Sexual Diversity, said that means activists and governments need to step up.
Owusu-Akyeeah said she's often in touch with LGBTQ activists and Canada's diplomats in Ghana, and uses her past experience as a Global Affairs Canada analyst to suggest ways to advance rights.
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