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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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Picking Up the Pieces: The Making of the Witness Blanket
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Us vs. Them: The process of othering
By Clint Curle
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Dick Patrick: An Indigenous veteran’s fight for inclusion
By Jason Permanand and Steve McCullough
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The Wilcox County integrated prom
By Matthew McRae
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Claiming our rights as a transgender family
By Amanda Jetté Knox
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Seven awesome accessibility features at the Museum
By Matthew McRae
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The stain of antisemitism in Canada
By Jeremy Maron
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The chaotic story of the right to vote in Canada
By Matthew McRae
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Language rights are human rights
By Rémi Courcelles
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Face the music: Canadian musicians and human rights
By Julia Peristerakis
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What led to the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda?
By Jeremy Maron
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Voices of women and girls in war
By Isabelle Masson
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Rohingya women call for justice
By Paula Kelly
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Jody Williams and the campaign to ban landmines
By Julia Peristerakis
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Us vs. Them: The process of othering
By Clint Curle
Explore the relationship between othering, human rights violations and the process of genocide through the lenses of the Holocaust and the Rohingya genocide.
Dick Patrick: An Indigenous veteran’s fight for inclusion
By Jason Permanand and Steve McCullough
Voices of women and girls in war
By Isabelle Masson
Grace Acan and Evelyn Amony were abducted by the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) in Uganda when they were just girls. They were enslaved and spent years in captivity, away from their families. They managed to find their way back to freedom but have faced many new struggles since they returned home.
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