The 2024 Foresights for Human Rights report contains preliminary findings from research undertaken by the Canadian Museum for Human Rights. 

The survey, conducted in 2023 and again in 2024 by Probe Research Inc. with a representative sample of people of Canada, paints a compelling picture.

Twenty‐five hundred people in Canada weighed in on their personal experiences of human rights, their willingness to take action when they witness human rights violations, their optimism or concern for the future of human rights in Canada and elsewhere in the world, and more. 

The foresights outlined in this report will play an important role in determining what stories and storytelling approaches we pursue in the coming years.

Our National Research Program

The Canadian Museum for Human Rights intends to capture and measure, on a periodic basis, national perspectives and priorities related to human rights, including:

• What human rights mean to different people in Canada;
• What people identify as the most pressing human rights issues today—both domestically and worldwide;
• How people choose to learn more about human rights;
• Which sources of information people deem trustworthy; and
• How people are taking action as upstanders—people who recognize injustice and act to create change in their communities.