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Human rights stories are all around us. We explore contemporary and historic human rights stories, from Canada and around the world.

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A Yiddish poem from the Holocaust

A yellowed paper with a handwritten text in Yiddish. The piece of paper is flat but was folded previously as old fold marks are obvious.

Black sleeping car porters

By Travis Tomchuk

A black and white photo of four men in train porter uniforms. All of the men are smiling, and the two men in the middle appear to be shaking hands.

Reconciliation: A movement of hope or a movement of guilt?

By Karine Duhamel

Carved wooden face

A Universal commitment

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A Yiddish poem from the Holocaust

A single poem reminds us that even in the midst of atrocity, human dignity persists.

A yellowed paper with a handwritten text in Yiddish. The piece of paper is flat but was folded previously as old fold marks are obvious.

Black sleeping car porters

By Travis Tomchuk

Black men employed as sleeping car porters in Canada from the late nineteenth century until the mid‐1950s experienced racial discrimination and exploitation on the job.

A black and white photo of four men in train porter uniforms. All of the men are smiling, and the two men in the middle appear to be shaking hands.

Reconciliation: A movement of hope or a movement of guilt?

By Karine Duhamel

In Why reconciliation? Why now? I talked about the idea of reconciliation as an invitation to a new and shared future and as a pathway towards a good life, both for Indigenous people and for other Canadians.

Carved wooden face

A Universal commitment

Discover the people of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

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