Most developed countries do similar things; it’s just that their human rights laws were written more recently for historic reasons. For instance, the Canadian C

Most developed countries do similar things; it’s just that their human rights laws were written more recently for historic reasons. For instance, the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms was written in 1982 because that’s when Canada rewrote their constitution to more completely break away from British rule, and the European Convention on Human Rights was drafted in 1950, in the immediate post-war era.