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Topics: Human rights promotion

Events

Finding balance and connection through painting

October 11, 2025

Cost: $25 per person

Location: MTS Classrooms

Various sizes of paint brushes standing in a paint-brush holder against a blurred green backdrop.

The matchup between human rights and sports

October 23, 2025

Cost: Free, Zoom registration required.

Location: This virtual dialogue will be held on Zoom.

A smiling man in a crowd of people holding a large yellow flag with a blue and white, “W” in the centre. The man is wearing a blue Winnipeg Blue Bombers jacket as he stands in front of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights.

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

Large dark blue panels with white text and graphics displayed in the Community Corridor at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights. The centre panel features a circular logo and commemorates the 40th anniversary of the Canadian Centre for Child Protection. The two panels on either side present bilingual text in English and French.

Peacebuilding Through Truth and Reconciliation

August 12, 2026 to August 16, 2026

Cost: 475 (until May 31, 2026). Pricing details below

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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