• Uganda’s Harsh Anti-Gay Campaign Could Spread Beyond its Borders

    Uganda’s Harsh Anti-Gay Campaign Could Spread Beyond its Borders

    Being gay in Uganda has never been easy. It just got a lot worse, and a lot more dangerous.  Against fierce domestic and international pressure from human rights defenders, President Yoweri Museveni has signed into law one of the harshest anti-gay bills in the world.  Homosexual activity was already illegal in Uganda, but the new Anti-Homosexuality Act means that

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  • The Issues Involved in Using the “Persona Non-Grata” Option

    The Issues Involved in Using the “Persona Non-Grata” Option

    Recent controversies involving Chinese diplomatic and consular personnel in Canada have again raised the thorny issue of declaring foreign diplomats “persona non grata,” thereby throwing them out of Canada for their transgressions. The “PNG” concept is a reflexive, almost automatic demand by opposition political parties and some individuals in the Canadian “think-tank” community.  In weighing its

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