Time in Ghana
From 2001 to 2002 Peterson worked at the Ghanaian Ministry of Justice on an intership funded by the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade. Under the direction of Betty Mould-Iddrisu (now Ghana’s Minister of Justice), Peterson helped write Ghana’s report to the UN on the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination and the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
While in Ghana, Peterson met Alexandra Sicotte-Levesque, employed with a similar internship in Côte d'Ivoire, and created the idea behind jhr over MSN Messenger.
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