{"id":10817,"date":"2012-05-24T10:58:04","date_gmt":"2012-05-24T10:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/?p=10817"},"modified":"2012-05-24T10:58:04","modified_gmt":"2012-05-24T10:58:04","slug":"canada-applauds-jb-on-repealing-bill-targeting-gays-lesbians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/2012\/05\/24\/canada-applauds-jb-on-repealing-bill-targeting-gays-lesbians\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada applauds JB on repealing bill targeting gays, lesbians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Canada&#8217;s Foreign Affairs Ministry has been very outspoken in condemning countries, particularly those in Africa, who have sought to limit gay and lesbian rights.<br \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_10820\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/john-baird.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10820\" src=\"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/john-baird-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10820\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10820\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Canada&#039;s Foreign Affairs Minister; John Baird<\/p><\/div><br \/>\nToday Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird issued the following statement:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCanada applauds Malawian president Joyce Banda for her position on human rights.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident Banda has already made history by becoming Malawi\u2019s first woman leader.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are encouraged by her recent commitment to repeal discriminatory legislation, including legislation that persecutes gays and lesbians.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHuman rights and freedoms are the birthright of all individuals. We call on other states to follow Malawi\u2019s example and decriminalize homosexuality.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCanada remains a committed leader in promoting freedom, democracy, human rights, the rule of law and dignity for all people.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canada&#8217;s Foreign Affairs Ministry has been very outspoken in condemning countries, particularly those in Africa, who have sought to limit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10820,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[1091,1993,2401,2428,466,258],"class_list":["post-10817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news","tag-canada","tag-canada-and-africa","tag-gay-rights","tag-john-baird","tag-joyce-banda","tag-malawi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}