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June 2020
Museum to welcome back visitors on June 17
Winnipeg - June 10, 2020
Free admission for frontline pandemic workers on #FrontlineFridays
May 2020
Museum offers help for teachers during pandemic
Winnipeg - May 1, 2020
The Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR) is working to help teachers deliver at‐home learning about human rights. A new section of its website, called the “COVID‐19 – Learn at home” page, was launched this week. Among the new educational initiatives is a free virtual lesson for high …
March 2020
Museum invites social sharing through video stories
Winnipeg - March 30, 2020
Online features encourage focus on human rights during pandemic
CMHR to close due to risks from COVID‐19
Winnipeg - March 13, 2020
Due to public health risks associated with the COVID‐19 pandemic, all national museums of Canada – including the Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR) – have made the decision to close their doors to visitors and all other groups, effective tomorrow (Saturday, March 14) until further notice. “W …
February 2020
CBC science journalist Bob McDonald to speak to students about climate action at CMHR
Winnipeg - February 28, 2020
Students from 64 Manitoba schools will join CBC national science journalist Bob McDonald and CBC Manitoba meteorologist John Sauder for an exciting mass youth event about climate change next Tuesday at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR). The event – originally planned with American celeb …
Hundreds of Indigenous students “Rise Up” at CMHR
Winnipeg - February 18, 2020
Hundreds of Indigenous students from the Seven Oaks School Division will gather for two days at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR) this week to connect, celebrate their culture and discover how they can take action for human rights. The gathering – called “Rise Up” – is a highlight of th …
January 2020
Rock star presents his “virtual being” to students at CMHR
Winnipeg - January 27, 2020
Hundreds of high‐school students will meet Ophelia, a virtual being who learns from her conversations with humans, during a youth event this Thursday at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR). …
Son of “Mengele twin” speaks at Museum for 75th anniversary of Auschwitz liberation
Winnipeg - January 23, 2020
They were Jewish children subjected to medical experiments by Dr. Josef Mengele as twins imprisoned at Auschwitz‐Birkenau, the notorious Nazi death camp that was liberated on January 27, 1945. Richard K. Lowy, the Canadian son of a twin who survived this horror, will give a mesmerizing …
CMHR welcomes visitors from 85 countries, every province and state
Winnipeg - January 22, 2020
The Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR) welcomed visitors from at least 85 countries last year, including people from every province and territory in Canada and every state in the USA. Participants at the Museum’s Annual Public Meeting today heard that 66 per cent of its visitors travell …
December 2019
Human rights for the holidays
Winnipeg - December 12, 2019
Free admission for kids, family‐friendly activities at CMHR
Free admission, family programs for International Human Rights Day
Winnipeg - December 6, 2019
Evening event to focus on forgotten genocide of Nigeria‐Biafra war
New film shows Rwandan‐Canadian pursuit of justice after genocide
Montréal - December 4, 2019
A new film by the Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR) will be screened in Montréal on Sunday about the work of the Rwandan‐Canadian community to pursue justice against suspected war criminals identified in Canada after the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi. The short documentary film, crea …
November 2019
National book launch: Artist shares epic journey to “pick up the pieces” for the Witness Blanket
Winnipeg - November 18, 2019
The Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR) will host the national launch of a book that explores the epic quest to gather items from over 130 sites of Indian residential schools for the Witness Blanket, a monumental art installation by master carver Carey Newman (Ha‐Yalth‐Kin‐Geme). In conversat …
New exhibit explores fight for rights on the job
Winnipeg - November 15, 2019
A miner’s helmet, a nurse’s uniform, and a railway conductor’s cap are being used to help tell the story of three important labour‐rights struggles that led to positive changes for Canadian workers. Created in recognition of the 100th anniversary of the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike, a n …
CMHR invites youth art projects for Manitoba 150 human rights exhibition
Winnipeg - November 12, 2019
The Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR) has issued a call for submissions of youth art projects about human rights.
Red tower for Remembrance Day
Winnipeg - November 7, 2019
Free admission for veterans and military on Remembrance Day weekend
October 2019
CMHR launches Friday Night Rights
Winnipeg - October 29, 2019
Free and reduced admission to kick off each weekend the rights way
Ugandan women open new CMHR exhibit about girls enslaved in war
Winnipeg - October 23, 2019
Two Ugandan women abducted as girls and held captive for years by a notorious military rebel group are at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights today to open a new exhibit called Ododo Wa: Stories of Girls in War. Evelyn Amony was abducted at age 11 and forced to marry infamous Lord’s Resista …
Indigenous oral ceremony finalizes historic agreement with Museum
Winnipeg - October 16, 2019
A historic agreement between Kwakwaka’wakw artist Carey Newman (Hayalthkin’geme) and the Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR) was finalized today through traditional ceremony at Kumugwe, the K'ómoks First Nation Bighouse on Vancouver Island. The ceremony marks the first time in Canad …
September 2019
Big Brother is watching: How technology endangers human rights
Winnipeg - September 24, 2019
Investigative journalist forced to leave China headlines CMHR event
