CHRR News Archive
Faculty of Law
Exploring Winnipeg as a Human Rights City
December 7, 2022 —
The Centre for Human Rights Research and the Centre for Social Science Research and Policy at the University of Manitoba are hosting a special event in recognition of December 10th, the day on which the Universal Declaration on Human Rights was signed. The panel will explore what makes for a human rights city and how Winnipeg lives up to such a designation. The event, “Imagining the Peg as a Human Rights City”, takes place on Zoom on Friday, December 9, 2022 at 12:00 p.m. Registration is open to the public.
Faculty of Law
Canadian Journal of Human Rights releases new volume
May 19, 2021 —
The Canadian Journal of Human Rights: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Law and Policy, edited by Professor Donn Short with the help of law student editors, has just published Volume 9, Number 1, now available online.
Faculty of Law
A Legacy of Human Rights Research
June 15, 2020 —
When the Canadian Museum for Human Rights broke ground in 2009, Prof. Karen Busby was tasked with helping make the University of Manitoba a top choice for students and scholars of human rights. She agreed to spend six months consulting across campuses to come up with a plan. Eleven years later, Busby is stepping down as founding director of the university’s Centre for Human Rights Research, formally established in 2012.
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Achieving fairness: Law Professor co-authors guide to campus sexual violence complaints
June 12, 2020 —
Robson Hall Faculty of Law Professor Karen Busby recently published Achieving Fairness: A Guide to Campus Sexual Violence Complaints (Thomson Reuters/Carswell 2020) together with co-author Joanna Birenbaum, a litigator with Ursel Phillips Fellows Hopkinson LLP in Toronto.
Faculty of Law
Donors’ gifts offer unusual opportunity to law and human rights students
November 30, 2019 —
Philanthropy comes in different forms besides scholarships and bursaries, as a number of Juris Doctor and Master of Human Rights students recently experienced.
Faculty of Law
Advocating for Justice and Reparations in Uganda
October 17, 2019 —
Escaping with their surviving children from forced marriages to Lord’s Resistance Army commanders was not the end of the ordeal for Grace Acan and Evelyn Amony.
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UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples forum comes to Faculty of Law
December 6, 2018 —
A decade after the United Nations adopted its innovative Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, scholars, policy makers and advocates will gather at the U of M to share research on how the declaration is being put into practice around the world.
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Mahatma Gandhi Peace Award 2018 Ceremony at Robson Hall
October 12, 2018 —
Child welfare activist Dr. Cindy Blackstock received the Mahatma Gandhi Peace Award of 2018