Topics: Human rights violations
Exhibitions
Climate Justice
June 2022 to December 2024
This new exhibit explores the connections between human rights and climate change.
Stories
Persecution of queer Canadian soldiers in wartime
By Sarah Worthman
Modern anti‐2SLGBTQI+ hate echoes the myths and prejudices of the past, threatening to erase queer soldiers’ stories again.
“My future children will never get to experience the home I knew”
By Damhat Zagros
A first person’s reflection on being forced from home and wrestling with what that means for him and for future generations. The article provides evocative narrative as well as background on international law as it relates to refugees and internally displacement peoples and the intergenerational effects of trauma and displacement.
Gender‐based violence across Canada
By Julie S. Lalonde
Violence limits and threatens the lives of women in Canada every day. The legal system and communities can do more to support and defend targets of male violence.
Justice after genocide: Rwandan Canadian community activism
By Jeremy Maron
Explore how members of the Rwandan Canadian community mobilized to pursue justice, within Canada, for the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda.
Canada, antisemitism and the Holocaust
By Jeremy Maron
Widespread antisemitism in Canada in the 1930s and 1940s kept the nation’s borders closed to Jews trying to escape the Holocaust.
Covering the Holodomor: Memory Eternal
By Jeremy Maron
Explore the role of journalists and the media in hiding and revealing the story of the genocidal famine in Ukraine engineered by Josef Stalin.
Remembering the Srebrenica Genocide
By Jeremy Maron
Kerim Bajramovic and Aida Šehović are both Bosniaks touched by the Srebrenica Genocide in different ways. Their perspectives offer distinct personal lenses through which we can learn about Srebrenica and its legacy.
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.
What led to the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda?
By Jeremy Maron
Learn how division, dehumanization and incitement of hatred set the stage for genocide.
Canada’s Indian residential schools: Childhood denied
A story about Indian residential schools and their legacy
The story of Black slavery in Canadian history
By Steve McCullough and Matthew McRae
Canada celebrates being a destination for Americans who escaped slavery via the Underground Railroad. But slavery was also part of Canada’s history for more than 200 years.
Armin Wegner: Witness to the Armenian Genocide
What does it mean to stand up for human rights? Read the story of a medic who risked his own safety to document the evidence of atrocity.
“A cauldron of hell”: The story of Canada’s Hong Kong veterans
By Matthew McRae
On December 8, 1941, the Japanese army launched an attack on the then‐British colony of Hong Kong, located in Southern China.
A Yiddish poem from the Holocaust
A single poem reminds us that even in the midst of atrocity, human dignity persists.
Resource guides
Rohingya
We invite you to explore this guide as a starting point in learning more about the Rohingya people.
Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls and 2SLGBTQI+ People
In this guide, you will find links to resources related to the epidemic of missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls and 2SLGBTQI+ people in Canada and the United States.
Talking to Kids about the Israeli‐Palestinian Conflict
In this guide you will find links to resources that can help when talking with children and youth about the current and ongoing Israeli‐Palestinian conflict.
Canada’s residential schools
In this guide, you will find links to resources related to the residential school system and the stories of children who were taken from their families and sent to residential schools.
