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@jamesbezan @IrwinCotler @SenatorHousakos @AHousefather @IKhan204 @tomkmiec @DavidLametti @PeterMacKay David Matas @JohnMcKayLib @HMcPhersonMP @mivillej @ratnaomi @AllanMRock @MarvinRotrand @anitavandenbeld
Join us for a conversation about human rights, storytelling and how we can work together to inspire action to Create a better world, in #Halifax. Please RT and make sure to register!
The Canadian Museum for Human Rights @CMHR_News is hosting Public Engagement Sessions on Tuesday, May 16 from 9:00 am to 12:00 pm and from 5:00 to 8:00 pm at the Canadian Museum of Immigration @Pier21
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Items from the sacred bundle of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls and 2SLGBTQQIA+ people will be shared in our Level 1 Gallery as part of a special display to mark National MMIWG2S+ Awareness Day❤️
ALT Alt text: 5 red dresses of different sizes and designs are displayed on mannequins. Source: Aaron Cohen, CMHR
💔IS NOT ENOUGH. We have a responsibility to change the systems we are a part of - the systems that failed Linda Mary Beardy.
The disposal of Linda Mary Beardy at the Brady Landfill is the latest evidence of an epidemic of violence against Indigenous women, girls and Two-Spirit people. cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/…
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Join Ma-Nee Chacby and Albert McLeod tomorrow at 6:30 pm at the @CMHR_News for a discussion on two-spirit identity!
Chacby is the author of A TWO-SPIRIT JOURNEY, an extraordinary account of her life as an Ojibwa-Cree lesbian.
Register below!
humanrights.ca/event/two-spi…
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Papal bulls, forming the #doctrineofdiscovery, were “manipulated for political purposes by competing colonial powers in order to justify immoral acts against indigenous peoples that were carried out, at times, without opposition from ecclesiastical authorities” 1/2 – at Winnipeg, Manitoba
Come work with us. You’re creative and ever so talented and you want to promote human rights 👊🏽🌟
Are your pictures worth 1000 words? Can you tell captivating stories using video? You may just be the person we are looking for! We're hiring a Digital Media Production Artist. bit.ly/40nLmpi
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Our friends at @CMHR_News are hosting an event next week with Two-Spirit Elders Ma-Nee Chacaby and Albert McLeod where they will discuss their experiences as 2S people and their fight for gender and sexual diversity rights in their communities and beyond. humanrights.ca/event/two-spi…
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A jingle dress to join ‘one family and all its relations’ – Winnipeg Free Press winnipegfreepress.com/arts-a… via @WinnipegNews
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Such a fabulous conversation this evening - today and every day, #everychildmatters. Thank you for the gorgeous reminder, Amanda! – at Winnipeg, Manitoba
It was an honour to meet Amanda Grieves and ask her questions about the #Awasisuk exhibit in the @mbteachers Community Corridor! She sews regalia & ribbon skirts, this dress represents #EveryChildMatters, #Reconciliation & #healing 🧡 1/2
ALT Michael smiling next to the orange Awasisuk jingle dress and its creator Amanda Grieves, also smiling
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"The museum is a platform to share stories, to create belonging. It's about relationships, human rights & it's about community." @CMHR_News held a public engagement session to help inform their new strategic plan: Our Path Forward. Lots of great discussions & lots of work to do.
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Systems change at the mic. @IKhan204 says we are all responsible to disrupt & change systems 🐢 #Debwewin #truthbombs Hanging w the best disrupters & change makers today @blumczynska #WWC2023
What an honour to open #WWCC2023 this morning- no doubt we are going to remake the system- but this time for all of us. Together. 👊🏽🌸
Opening keynote by the fabulous @IKhan204 who starts with a land acknowledgment & specifically acknowledges water #Nibi as taught by #Indigneous leaders #WWC2023
One of the most inspirational speeches I’ve heard.@cheekbonebeauty rocked the room in all the best ways this morning!
I’m so proud of #Jenn Harper @cheekbonebeauty Her message today: We have so much power as individuals. We don’t know what we don’t know but when we do know, we need to do better 🐢 #WWC2023 #debwewin #truthbombs #Ikwe #Indigenous
