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Dancing for human rights
Inspired by a viral YouTube star, a group of Grade 6 students from Winnipeg’s Grosvenor School decided to create their own dance video last week outside the Canadian Museum for Human Rights.
Guest post: A movement for human rights in Canadian classrooms
POSTED BY: Paul Taillefer, 0 Comments, May 7
In 2010, the Canadian Teachers’ Federation (CTF) launched a program that would spark a national student movement for social justice and human rights in Canadian classrooms. It’s called “Imagineaction” and it has expanded beyond our initial expectations: 1,700 teachers who have involved over 90,000 students since its inception. The program offers subsidies for school-community projects that promote relationships, citizenship, health and wellness, leadership, environmental sustainability and that try to alleviate poverty.
52 stories of reflection & dialogue
POSTED BY: Scott Gillam, 0 Comments, Apr 30
We're about to turn one! With a team of contributors from across Canada and beyond, the Canadian Museum for Human Rights blog went live on May 9th, 2012.
Bilingualism is well entrenched in the CMHR's conception
POSTED BY: Christelle Mekoh, 0 Comments, Apr 23
While Statistics Canada reports that Canadians speak more than 200 languages, English and French account for 58% and 22% of the mother tongues represented. Enacted in 1969, the Official Languages Act recognized the equal status of these two languages. This Act was also ratified by the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. One of the objectives of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR) is to ensure that people speaking either official language have the same experience when they visit.
Fuelled by passion: Winnipeg Jets tour CMHR
POSTED BY: Maureen Fitzhenry, 0 Comments, Apr 16
Stars of the Winnipeg Jets helped shine a light on human rights when they toured construction progress inside the Canadian Museum for Human Rights on April 12.
A social committee with a social conscience
POSTED BY: Sylvie Laurencelle-Vermette, 0 Comments, Apr 9
What happens when a museum for human rights forms a social committee? You get a social committee with a social conscience.
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