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Events

Spring Break 2026 at the Museum

Saturday, March 28, 2026 to Saturday, April 4, 2026

Cost: Free with admission

Location: Bonnie & John Buhler Hall, Level 1

Two young children sit side by side at a round table, engaged in an art activity with markers and coloured pencils.

Thoughts from a post‐truth world: an evening with Marci Shore.

Thursday, April 16, 2026

Cost: Free, registration required

Location: Bonnie & John Buhler Hall, Level 1, Canadian Museum for Human Rights

Une foule de personnes emmitouflées se tient debout dans une rue de ville pendant l’hiver, tenant de multiples drapeaux ukrainiens bleus et jaunes ainsi qu’un drapeau canadien. Le rassemblement semble être une manifestation en appui à l’Ukraine. De grands édifices à bureaux et des feux de circulation sont à l’arrière-plan sous un ciel couvert.

Medicine Wheels and Strong Nations

Saturday, April 18, 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.

Artwork featuring a large turquoise oval shape outlined in black with a red, branching form spreading across the centre. The background blends yellow and green tones with scattered organic shapes and splashes of black around the edge.

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

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.

Preserving Canadian Democracy: An Evening with Jason Stanley

Wednesday, April 29, 2026

Cost: Free, registration required

Location: Bonnie & John Buhler Hall, Level 1, Canadian Museum for Human Rights

A museum exhibition wall features an illustrated mural of diverse figures and the title, “The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms / La Charte canadienne des droits et libertés.” The mural transitions from black illustrations of people into an orange section with key rights and freedoms in both English and French in the shape of the Canadian Map.

Manitoba Upstander Showcase

Thursday, May 21, 2026

Cost: Free admission with promo code UPSTANDER2026

Location: Museum galleries and Garden of Contemplation

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

Edmonton and Area Upstander Showcase

Thursday, May 28, 2026

Cost: Free admission

Location: Royal Alberta Museum
9810 103a Ave NW, Edmonton, AB T5J 0G2

Many people gathered in an open indoor space with tables and posters set up on them.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

A humanoid alien stands next to a wall.

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.

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.

The covers of many graphic novels.

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.

A snow-covered country road with mountains in the background.

Jody Williams and the campaign to ban landmines

By Julia Peristerakis

A woman sitting on a chair with hands clasped looks thoughtfully ahead, as if answering a question.

Resource guides

Music and human rights

Learn more about the connection between music, activism, protest and human rights issues

An antique chrome-plated microphone in the centre of the image is encircled by multicoloured rays over a mottled blue and green background.

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