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CHRR’s Inaugural Visiting Community Researcher: Welcoming Dr. Karlee Sapoznik Evans

February 02, 2023

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Pauline Tennent

The Centre for Human Rights Research’s Visiting Community Researcher Program seeks to strengthen the human rights research landscape by supporting community-based researchers, activists, practitioners, organizers, and artists.

Visiting Community Researchers will have access to university resources, libraries, and administrative support to connect with community organizations, as well as university faculty, students, and staff and to envision, develop, and share interdisciplinary human rights research projects.

We are thrilled to announce CHRR’s inaugural Visiting Community Researcher is Dr. Karlee Sapoznik Evans. Dr. Karlee Sapoznik Evans is an experienced leader specializing in research, strategic policy, social service delivery, project management, systemic advocacy, human rights (particularly children’s rights), Residential School history, and sexual exploitation prevention. Since 2018, Dr. Evans has served in a leadership role with the Manitoba Advocate for Children and Youth. As Deputy Manitoba Advocate, she is responsible for research, investigations, quality assurance, and public education, advocating for the human rights, interests, and viewpoints of children, youth, and their families. To learn more about Karlee’s work, please click here.

Karlee will be sharing her work with the CHRR community in the Spring of 2023. More information will be posted on our website.

If you would like to learn more about CHRR’s Visiting Community Researcher program, please contact CHRR.

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Check out the new ‘Missing the Bus’ Podcast

November 01, 2022

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Pauline Tennent

Learn more about the connections between uneven mobility and mobility justice from an intersectional feminist context in Western Canada, with a particular focus on Manitoba, in the new ‘Missing the Bus’ podcast.

Brandon Sun 24052017 A taxi sits in front the Greyhound bus depot on 6th Street in Brandon on Wednesday evening. The Greyhound building is up for sale. (Tim Smith/The Brandon Sun)
Brandon Sun 24052017 A taxi sits in front the Greyhound bus depot on 6th Street in Brandon on Wednesday evening. The Greyhound building is up for sale. (Tim Smith/The Brandon Sun)

CHRR Director Adele Perry and CHRR Research Affiliates Jocelyn Thorpe and Karine Duhamel chat with host Olivia Macdonald Mager about their research project Missing the Bus: Indigenous Women and Two-Spirit Plus People and Public Transit in Western Canada. Through both this podcast and the final report, the authors demonstrate that public transportation makes possible the full participation of Indigenous women and Two-Spirit plus people in all aspects of society. Public transit, therefore, is not an additional or optional service, but a fundamental necessity. 

This podcast was produced in cooperation with the Centre for Human Rights Research at the University of Manitoba and through funding support from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Knowledge Synthesis Grant in collaboration with Infrastructure Canada.

Access the podcast on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and iHeartRadio.

The executive summaries of the other reports funded through this initiative can be found here.

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    CHRR 2020-2021 Annual Report Now Available

    November 03, 2021

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    Corey Petsnik

    The CHRR’s 2020-2021 annual report is now available. This year’s report highlights the Centre’s activities taken in the midst of the COVID 19 pandemic. The activities have taken on an unprecedented online presence including, but not limited to SSHRC funded projects such as: At the Forks and Missing the Bus, both of which are ongoing. In addition, the report speaks to CHRR’s response to the ongoing unearthing of unmarked graves at residential schools through the summer’s online Question and Answer event, “Doing the Work” as well as new initiatives such as the “methods and mediums” bi-monthly workshops and innovative forms of collaboration between scholars, advocates and practitioners addressing human rights research.

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    The Right to Food and Community Gardening in Winnipeg

    July 20, 2021

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    Pauline Tennent

    By Pauline Tennent

    Dr. Fabiana Li is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Manitoba. Dr. Li’s research focuses on the intersections between food, culture, environment, and social justice.

    Dr. Li was a CHRR Small Grant recipient for her timely project that explored the right to food in Winnipeg in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Li and her team explored the creation of “Victory Gardens” in Winnipeg, which were originally popularized during World War I and II in an attempt to support the war effort and alleviate pressures on the food supply.

    Dr. Li’s project focused on the Meadowood Victory Garden established at the St. Vital Centennial Arena with the support of Winnipeg Food Council, partners, and volunteers. Dr. Li and her team explored the possibilities of improving the short-term phenomenon of Victory Gardens into a more sustainable transformation of food systems and urban agriculture. Lessons from the Victory Gardens project and recommendations for moving forward can be found here.

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      CHRR welcomes new manager

      June 23, 2021

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      Adele Perry

      The Centre for Human Rights Research welcomes new manager Dr. Pauline Tennent. Before joining the Centre for Human Rights Research, Pauline worked as a Research Associate at the College of Nursing, University of Manitoba. In this position, she worked with young people in research related to health, equity, and their rights in the workplace.

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        Thanking CHRR’s founding director

        September 22, 2020

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        Helen Fallding

        In recognition of Prof. Karen Busby’s devotion to founding the Centre for Human Rights Research and building interdisciplinary research teams, including to tackle drinking water issues on First Nations, the centre presented her with this print by Métis artist Christi Belcourt. Dr. Adele Perry took over as the research centre’s new director July 1, 2020.

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        Speakers Bureau goes online

        August 27, 2020

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        Adele Perry

        During the COVID pandemic, law and master of human rights students will deliver free presentations to Grade 7 to 12 classes and community groups through online video platforms rather than in-person. Request your presentation today.

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        Water conference 2018

        March 08, 2018

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        Adele Perry

        The University of Manitoba’s 5th annual H2O First Nation drinking and wastewater research conference was held on May 17-18, 2018.

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        U of M human rights experts on the national stage

        June 08, 2017

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        Helen Fallding

        By Helen Fallding

        A national human rights conference in Ottawa this week features two University of Manitoba law professors.

        Prof. Brenda Gunn has been speaking about the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) since at least 2010 but recently she has been flooded with requests to explain what it means for Canada.

        Two years ago, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada highlighted UNDRIP as a framework for moving forward on reconciliation. Then last year, Indigenous Affairs Minister Carolyn Bennett announced Canada’s full support for UNDRIP.

        “Now people really care,” Gunn told more than 100 human rights experts from across Canada gathered at the University of Ottawa for the opening session of the Realizing Rights conference.

        Some Canadians worry that recognizing Indigenous rights will tear the country apart, Gunn said, but UNDRIP’s drafters believed recognition will instead “enhance harmonious and cooperative relations between the State and indigenous peoples.”

        Her UNDRIP handbook has become one of the key resources for Canadians trying to put the international declaration into practice here, according to University of Ottawa Prof. Nathalie Chalifour.

        Gunn’s colleague Prof. Karen Busby explained at another plenary session how the Canadian Constitution could be used to push governments toward realizing the human right to clean drinking water and sanitation in First Nation communities.

        While the Trudeau government has committed to ending drinking water advisories on reserves, not much has changed in the last few years.

        Section 36(1)(c) is an overlooked section of the Constitution that commits Canadian governments to providing essential public services of reasonable quality to all Canadians. Busby’s analysis of how courts in other countries have enforced the right to water and of what Canada says in international forums led her to conclude that this provision could be used to nudge governments towards the negotiating table.

        Busby is also helping launch the book Canada and the Rule of Law, 150 Years after Confederation, to which she contributed a chapter.

        The Realizing Rights conference was organized in recognition that after 150 years, Canada has both much to celebrate in our human rights history and some serious issues to tackle.

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        Water conference 2017

        February 03, 2017

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        Helen Fallding

        People attend the second annual Orange Shirt Day Survivors Walk and Pow Wow on National Day for Truth and Reconciliation in Winnipeg, September 30, 2022. Image: John Woods, The Canadian Press
        People attend the second annual Orange Shirt Day Survivors Walk and Pow Wow on National Day for Truth and Reconciliation in Winnipeg, September 30, 2022. Image: John Woods, The Canadian Press

        The University of Manitoba’s 4th annual H2O First Nation drinking and wastewater research conference was held on June 1-2, 2017. See conference presentations. 

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