Topics: Human rights promotion
Events
Upstander Showcase
Thursday, May 22, 2025
Cost: Free
Location: Museum galleries and Stuart Clark Garden of Contemplation
Culinary Night at the Museum
Wednesday, June 4, 2025
Cost: $145 includes dinner, $180 includes dinner and signature drink at each stop
Location: Various locations in the Canadian Museum for Human Rights
The Egg‐Laying Moon, Faith and Fiddleheads
Saturday, June 21, 2025
Cost: Free, registration required. As space is limited for these workshops, only those who pre-register can attend.
Location: Canadian Museum for Human Rights. The group will check in at box office on Level 1 and proceed together to Level 6.
The Canadian Centre for Child Protection
May 6, 2025 — November 2025
Cost: This space is free to access.
Location: The Forks North Portage Partnership Classroom Lobby
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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Drawing the truth: Eight meaningful graphic novels
By Stephen Carney
Eight graphic novels that tell compelling stories about injustice, activism and hope.
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.
Resource guides
Music and human rights
Learn more about the connection between music, activism, protest and human rights issues
