Human rights violations

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Events

Holocaust Remembrance Day 2020

January 26, 2020

Cost: Most activities: free with admission /
Documentary screening: free ticket required

Train tracks lead to a distant building recognizable as the Auschwitz-Birkenau gate house.

Events

Holocaust Remembrance Day 2020

January 26, 2020

Cost: Most activities: free with admission /
Documentary screening: free ticket required

Location: Various locations in the Museum

Human rights violations

Train tracks lead to a distant building recognizable as the Auschwitz-Birkenau gate house.

Exhibitions

Time to Act: Rohingya Voices

June 2019 to April 2020

Exhibition details

Rohingya women, children and men wade through waist-high muddy river water. Some carry young children, while others carry bags of possessions, including household items.

Exhibitions

Time to Act: Rohingya Voices

June 2019 to April 2020

Exhibition details

Human rights violations

Rohingya women, children and men wade through waist-high muddy river water. Some carry young children, while others carry bags of possessions, including household items.

Stories

Us vs. Them: The process of othering

By Clint Curle

A group of men building a stone wall across a city street

Rohingya women call for justice

By Paula Kelly

A group of Rohingya women and men carry young children and belongings as they walk in a line over an earthen dike over a stretch of water.

Childhood denied

A group of boys wearing pyjamas kneels on single beds with heads bowed and hands clasped as if in prayer. A woman stands in the room with her hands clasped in a similar manner.

The story of slavery in Canadian history

By Matthew McRae

Rusted iron manacles hang on hooks on a plain white wall.

What would you risk to share evidence of injustice?

“A cauldron of hell”: The story of Canada’s Hong Kong veterans

By Matthew McRae, Communications Advisor

Three older men in Canadian Legion uniforms sit beside each other. They are all wearing Remembrance Day poppies on their uniforms.

A Yiddish poem from the Holocaust

A yellowed paper with a handwritten text in Yiddish. The piece of paper is flat but was folded previously as old fold marks are obvious.

Stories

Us vs. Them: The process of othering

By Clint Curle

Explore the relationship between othering, human rights violations and the process of genocide through the lenses of the Holocaust and the Rohingya genocide.

Human rights violations

A group of men building a stone wall across a city street

Rohingya women call for justice

By Paula Kelly

Human rights violations

A group of Rohingya women and men carry young children and belongings as they walk in a line over an earthen dike over a stretch of water.

Childhood denied

A story about Indian residential schools and their legacy

Human rights violations

A group of boys wearing pyjamas kneels on single beds with heads bowed and hands clasped as if in prayer. A woman stands in the room with her hands clasped in a similar manner.

The story of slavery in Canadian history

By Matthew McRae

Human rights violations

Rusted iron manacles hang on hooks on a plain white wall.

What would you risk to share evidence of injustice?

What does it mean to stand up for human rights? Read the story of a medic who risked his own safety to document the evidence of atrocity.

Human rights violations

“A cauldron of hell”: The story of Canada’s Hong Kong veterans

By Matthew McRae, Communications Advisor

On December 8, 1941, the Japanese army launched an attack on the then-British colony of Hong Kong, located in Southern China.

Human rights violations

Three older men in Canadian Legion uniforms sit beside each other. They are all wearing Remembrance Day poppies on their uniforms.

A Yiddish poem from the Holocaust

Human rights violations

A yellowed paper with a handwritten text in Yiddish. The piece of paper is flat but was folded previously as old fold marks are obvious.

Resource guides

Rohingya

Explore resource guide

A museum gallery featuring photographs projected onto large screens with seating in the middle of the room.

Resource guides

Rohingya

We invite you to explore this guide as a starting point in learning more about the Rohingya people.

Explore resource guide

Human rights violations

A museum gallery featuring photographs projected onto large screens with seating in the middle of the room.