Topics: Human rights promotion

Events

The Eagle Moon’s Tapahtamisowin Humility Lesson

Saturday, April 4, 2026

Cost: Free, registration required

Location: Canadian Museum for Human Rights. The group will meet in Bonnie & John Buhler Hall, Level 1 and proceed together to Level 6.

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Human rights promotion

A large bald eagle in silhouette flies past a full moon against a blue-grey winter sky, with bare tree branches visible in the lower right corner.

Women for a Just Peace – in Palestine, Israel and at home

Sunday, April 26, 2026

Cost: $15 for workshops $20 for evening program Or $30 for workshops and evening program.

Location: Manitoba Teachers’ Society Classrooms Level 1, Canadian Museum for Human Rights

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Human rights promotion

Audience members sit in a dimly lit venue watching a presentation, their faces illuminated by stage light. In the foreground, a person with their hair in a bun and wearing a bright red scarf rests their chin on their hand, looking attentively toward the stage. Other attendees sit beside them in soft focus, creating a quiet, contemplative atmosphere as the crowd listens.

Upstander Showcase

Thursday, May 21, 2026

Cost: Free admission with promo code UPSTANDER2026

Location: Museum galleries and Garden of Contemplation

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Human rights promotion

In a museum gallery, students exhibit projects on easels. Two students speak with adults about their work.

Peacebuilding Through Truth and Reconciliation

Wednesday, August 12, 2026 to Sunday, August 16, 2026

Cost: CAN $125–CAN $550.

Location: All daytime conference events will take place at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights.

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Exterior photo of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights’ glass windows and tower, taken against a prairie sky at dusk. The Winnipeg sign at the Forks is situated on the right side of the image. Multiple office towers and downtown lights are on the left-hand side of image.

Stories

What Is Two‐Spirit? Part One: Origins

By Scott de Groot

Discover the history and meaning of Two‐Spirit. The term speaks to community self‐determination, rejects colonial gender norms and celebrates Indigenous sexual and gender diversity.

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A poster featuring large artwork depicting two faces in dramatic colours and patterns, with background imagery including hands, standing figures and geometric shapes. A large title at the top reads “The 10th Annual International Two Spirit Gathering” and text at the bottom reads “August 27-31, 1997. Onamia, Minnesota.”

Black Lives Matter and the struggle for racial justice in Canada

By Debra Thompson

Protest movements reveal and resist the injustice of systemic racism in Canada. Black community activism includes public protest, policy change and collective care.

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A large group of people holding signs with slogans such as “Black Lives Matter,” “Enough is Enough” and “Your Silence is Betrayal.”

Nursing and Indigenous peoples’ health: reconciliation in practice

By Maureen Fitzhenry

Nurses’ long‐time partnership shows that decolonizing our health care systems is necessary for enhancing respect, fairness and social justice for First Nations, Inuit and Métis.

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A group of Indigenous women nurses stand together outside.

Star Trek and human rights

By Alana Conway and Murray Leeder

Star Trek has offered an intelligent, socially conscious approach to science fiction since it debuted in 1966. Current Star Trek series feature complex, nuanced perspectives on important human rights matters such as genocide, migrancy and refugees.

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From refugee to firefighter

By Maureen Fitzhenry

In 1991, Ali and his wife fled a brutal civil war in Somalia, ending up in a Kenyan refugee camp with their 3 children. After a long process, they immigrate to Canada.

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A smiling man stands in front of a fire truck.

Drawing the truth: Eight meaningful graphic novels

By Stephen Carney

Eight graphic novels that tell compelling stories about injustice, activism and hope.

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Dick Patrick: An Indigenous veteran’s fight for inclusion

By Steve McCullough and Jason Permanand

Patrick was awarded the Military Medal for bravery in the Second World War, but back in British Columbia he was refused restaurant service because he was Indigenous. That didn't stop him.

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