Topics: Human rights promotion
Events
Opikinawasowin – The process of lifting children and growing sacredness
December 9, 2023
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.

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Woman, Life, Freedom
September 16, 2023 to March 10, 2024
Cost: This space is free to access
Location: The Forks North Portage Partnership Classroom Lobby

Stories
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


