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
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
Rendez‐vous de la Francophonie 2023
March 1 to March 31, 2023
Cost: Free
Location:
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.
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.
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.
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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Dick Patrick: An Indigenous veteran’s fight for inclusion
By Jason Permanand and Steve McCullough
Jody Williams and the campaign to ban landmines
By Julia Peristerakis
