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Topics: Human rights promotion

Events

Be an Upstander Showcase

May 12, 2023, 1 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Cost: Free

Location: Canadian Museum for Human Rights

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Behind the Dress: A call to keep fighting for our kids

Friday, March 24, 2023, 5:30 p.m. — 7:00 p.m.

Cost: Free

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

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Rendez‐vous de la Francophonie 2023

March 1 to March 31, 2023

Cost: Free

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Exhibitions

ARTiculate Our Rights

July 30, 2021 to May 31, 2023

This vibrant art exhibition explores youth perspectives on human rights for themselves, their families and their communities.

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Stories

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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Star Trek and human rights

By Murray Leeder and Alana Conway

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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Graphic truths

By Stephen Carney

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Dick Patrick: An Indigenous veteran’s fight for inclusion

By Jason Permanand and Steve McCullough

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Jody Williams and the campaign to ban landmines

By Julia Peristerakis

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Travis Price’s act of kindness

By Julia Peristerakis

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Six teenagers and a middle-aged woman stand with their arms around each other and are smiling for the camera. They are all wearing pink shirts.