About CHRR
Established in 2012
The Centre for Human Rights Research at the University of Manitoba brings together researchers and communities committed to intersectional research, scholarship, training, and programming on human rights and social justice issues.
Current Research Themes
The Centre for Human Rights Research leads and supports interdisciplinary research on broad human rights research themes.
The CHRR prioritizes research themes based in part on the human rights context in which we live, as well as the changing composition and interests of CHRR’s Research Affiliates.
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Borders & Human Rights
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Water Rights & Justice
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Reproductive and Bodily Justice
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Indigenous Peoples and Human Rights
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Feature Research Project
At The Forks
A meeting place for conversation and information about the intersection between Indigenous rights and human rights, with a focus on the prairies and its neighbours. Supported by the Centre for Human Rights Research, Mamawipawin, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC).
Latest Resource
Connecting Gender and Water Justice: A Zine
March 21, 2025
From Our Blog
CHRR x SOFASA Student Art Competition Winners
In February, the Centre for Human Rights Research (CHRR) and the School of Fine Art Students’ Association (SOFASA) held an Art Competition for University of Manitoba students. Students were asked to submit up to two…

Thinking with the Ocean: Twelve questions and a meditation to accompany the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade
“Water,” writes Dionne Brand in A Map to the Door of No Return: Notes to Belonging, “is the first thing in my memory. The sea sounded like a thousand secrets, all whispered at the same…
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