Topics: Human rights promotion
Events
Black History Manitoba presents Emancipation Celebration
Friday, August 2, 2024
Cost: Free; registration is required
Location: Bonnie & John Buhler Hall, Level 1
The right to be known
Tuesday, September 10, 2024
Cost: Free, registration required
Location: Bonnie & John Buhler Hall, Level 1, CMHR
Culinary Night at the Museum
Wednesday, October 9, 2024, 6:30 p.m. and 7 p.m. seatings
Cost: $135 includes dinner, $195 includes dinner and signature drink at each stop
Location: Various locations in the Canadian Museum for Human Rights
Gone too soon
June 4, 2024 to December 2024
Cost: This space is free to access.
Location: The Forks North Portage Partnership Classroom Lobby
Ukrainian Artists United
February 1, 2023 — ongoing
Cost: Free with admission
Location: Canadian Museum for Human Rights, Level 7
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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Graphic truths
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
Resource guides
Music and human rights
Learn more about the connection between music, activism, protest and human rights issues
