May 04, 2023

An Event in Honour of Red Dress Day

Event Date: May 04, 2023

Speakers:

Sandra Delaronde, Manitoba Implementation Committee of MMIWG2S+

Gerri-Lee Pangman, Red Dress Pin Workshop

May 5 marks The National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls and Two-Spirit People, also known as Red Dress Day. This day honours the thousands of missing and murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, Two-Spirit, Lesbian, Gay, Transgender, Queer, Questioning, Intersex, and Asexual Plus (MMIWG2S+) people in Canada by encouraging learning and building awareness to end violence against MMIWG2S+.

On Thursday, May 4, Indigenous Engagement and Communications and the Centre for Human Rights Research are holding An Event in Honour of Red Dress Day: Seminar and Red Dress Pin Workshop.

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April 20, 2023

What Could Harm Reduction Look Like in Manitoba (Not Just Winnipeg)?

Event Date: April 20, 2023

Speakers:

Dr. Marcia Anderson, Ongomiizwin

Tristan Dreilich, Manitoba Harm Reduction Network– Selkirk

Dr. Shawna Ferris, Women and Gender Studies, University of Manitoba

Levi Foy, Sunshine House

Shohan Ilsley, Manitoba Harm Reduction

Facilitated by Kohkum Leslie Spillett

Welcome from Dr. Margaret Lavellee

Harm reduction is founded in public health, community, and social justice. Health, safety, and freedom from discrimination are all rights enshrined in Canadian, Indigenous, and international laws and protocols. They have also become highly politicized points of policy here in Manitoba – with sharp distinctions between urban and rural realities. The focus on political calculation rather than health and wellness has led to an increasing amount of neglect, hospitalizations, and deaths of fellow Manitobans – particularly in the wake of the COVID pandemic.

On Apr. 20, 2023 the CHRR hosted a roundtable with practitioners, scholars, and advocates (and those who identify as a combination of all three) involved in harm reduction throughout the province.

The event was co-organized by the Centre for Social Science Research and Policy (UM), the Centre for Human Rights Research (UM), Ongomiizwin, and University of Winnipeg’s Global College.

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Watch the video: https://youtu.be/JM1j881qmcM

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April 14, 2023

Every Two Hours: A Special Report on Children and Youth Exposed to Intimate Partner Violence in Manitoba

Event Date: April 14, 2023

Speakers:

Dr. Karlee Sapoznik Evans, Deputy Manitoba Advocate, Manitoba Advocate for Children and Youth

Series: Visiting Community Researcher Talk

On Apr. 14, 2023, the Centre for Human Rights Research hosted a presentation with our Visiting Community Researcher, Dr. Karlee Sapoznik Evans, Deputy Manitoba Advocate for Children and Youth.

Dr. Evans discussed Manitoba Advocate’s latest special report. The report, the first of its kind, follows 671 Manitoba children and youth exposed to intimate partner violence (IPV) in April 2019 in order to understand their pathways through service responses from police, Victim Services, and Child and Family Services. The report repositions children exposed to IPV as centrally-impacted victims with rights to services. Informed by the voices of young people with lived experience, the Manitoba Advocate’s Elders Council, and service providers, it contains seven recommendations to improve the effectiveness and responsiveness of services for children, youth, and families in Manitoba. Read the report at: https://manitobaadvocate.ca/wp-content/uploads/MACY-Special-Report-Every-Two-Hours.pdf

If you would like to access the recording of this event please contact chrrman@umanitoba.ca.

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April 05, 2023

Housing Discrimination and Human Rights

Event Date: April 05, 2023

Speakers:

Dr. Megan Earle, Canadian Centre for Housing Rights

Mary Burton, Fearless R2W

Azarias Butariho, New Journey Housing

Dr. Nancy Hansen, Disability Studies, University of Manitoba

Ryan McKay, Indigenous Input into Local Housing Project, Spence Neighbourhood Association

On Apr. 5, 2023 the Centre for Human Rights Research (CHRR) and the Canadian Centre for Housing Rights (CCHR) co-hosted a virtual webinar to learn about the CCHR’s new discrimination audit report and engage with local advocates, community workers, and researchers in a discussion about housing discrimination in Winnipeg.

About CCHR’s discrimination audit report: The Canadian Centre Housing Rights (CCHR) recently published a discrimination audit report called “Sorry, it’s rented.” Measuring Discrimination Against Newcomers in Toronto’s Rental Housing Market. The report examines the level of discrimination faced by newcomers in Toronto’s rental market, and how race, gender and parental status increases the likelihood of discrimination when searching for rental housing. The discrimination audit found that newcomers in Toronto face up to 11 times as much discrimination as non-newcomers when searching to secure rental housing. It also found that racialized newcomers experienced more discrimination compared to non-racialized newcomers when calling to inquire about a rental listing, and that certain family statuses compounded the experience of discrimination. The panel was chaired by Yutaka Dirks, CCHR.

Read the full report: https://housingrightscanada.com /reports/sorry-its-rented-2022/

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Watch the video: https://youtu.be/exO8U6Q1edY

Mural by Christopher Statton and Megan Wilson, 2015

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April 03, 2023

Rethinking Borders: Transnational Movements, Resistance, Identity, and Gender

Event Date: April 03, 2023

Speakers:

Dr. Lorena Fontaine, University of Winnipeg

Dr. Shauna Labman, Univeresity of Winnipeg

Dr. Rob Lorway, University of Manitoba

Dr. Shayna Plaut, Centre for Social Sciences Research and Policy, University of Manitoba

Dr. Lori Wilkinson, University of Manitoba

Series: Critical Conversations 2023

In collaboration with Global College at the University of Winnipeg, our third critical conversation took place on Apr. 3, 2023.

The conversation was wide-ranging and touched on a variety of topics. Panelists identified – based on their research and expertise – the borders that matter, how they matter, who made them and why, as well as what they cross, both literally and metaphorically. They also discussed the limits and power of borders, the ways in which their research (or the subjects of their research) cross borders, the research and/or activism that has most guided or inspired them, and the kind of research that is most needed to meet the challenges of the present. The virtual panel was chaired by CHRR Director, Dr. Adele Perry. ASL interpretation provided by Tania MacNeil and Brenda Rutherford.

Pacific-centred map. DEMIS Mapserver/Wikimedia — Pacific-centred map, Available at: DEMIS Mapserver/Wikimedia

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Watch the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zE7SY7I5rb8&list=PLmq6CUaUQOLr29XFBQNU7PQoN4fTcIAYQ&index=2&t=4s

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March 15, 2023

Thinking in Pictures

Event Date: March 15, 2023

Speakers:

Dr. Sean Carleton, University of Manitoba

Gord Hill, artist and writer

Kara Sievewright, artist and graphic designer

Dr. Julia Smith, Labour Studies, University of Manitoba

Series: Methods and Mediums in Human Rights

On Wednesday, March 15th, 2023, CHRR hosted a virtual workshop learning from activists, artists, writers, and researchers passionate about using comics, history, and art in human rights research and for social change. This workshop was facilitated by Dr. Adele Perry.

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Watch the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqZx0_rDtLM&list=PLmq6CUaUQOLp-FoDRO6aGF0Jz_Wy4bM-P

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February 28, 2023

Water and Borders: A Roundtable

Event Date: February 28, 2023

Speakers:

Dr. Cary Miller, University of Manitoba

Dr. Teresa Montoya, University of Chicago

Dr. Emma Norman, Northwest Indian College

Dr. Adele Perry, University of Manitoba

Dr. Nicole J. Wilson, University of Manitoba

Series: Critical Conversations 2023

Does water have a border? When do the politics of water cut across borders, and when are they shaped, or even determined, by them? How does water challenge our conventional understanding of borders, including geopolitical ones, and how does it alert us to histories that pre-date the power of the colonial state? Can struggles around water – whether for decent drinking water, or against mega-projects and their impact on Indigenous communities – on different sides of North America’s settler borders be understood in common, or as discrete and different?

In collaboration with the University of Manitoba’s United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 6 (Water and Sanitation) Group, on Feb. 28, 2023 the CHRR hosted a virtual panel for an exploration of borders and the politics of water.

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Watch the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbos0CHCPeI&list=PLmq6CUaUQOLr29XFBQNU7PQoN4fTcIAYQ&index=1&t=9s

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February 17, 2023

Talking Borders, Colonialism, Resistance, and Human Rights

Event Date: February 17, 2023

Speakers:

Harsha Walia, Author, Activist, and Organizer

Dr. Alex Wilson (Opaskwayak Cree Nation), Department of Educational Foundations, University of Saskatchewan

On June 25, 2021, the Centre for Human Rights Research (CHRR) hosted At the Forks: A Virtual Launch.

Series: Critical Conversations 2023

On Feb. 17, 2023, CHRR welcomed Harsha Walia and Dr. Alex Wilson for a conversation entitled Talking Borders, Colonialism, Resistance, and Human Rights.

Walia and Wilson shared their perspectives on diverse issues. These included: The most meaningful and powerful forms of resistance to colonial, radicalized, or gendered borders that they have witnessed or participated in, the people and communities that are most effected by radicalized, colonial and gendered borders and who is crucial to resisting them, the impact and legacy of Idle No More, the ways in which the logic of borders works through gendered and sexualized logics, as well as imperial and radicalized ones, and the relationship between resistance, research, teaching, and writing.

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December 09, 2022

Imagining the Peg as a Human Rights City

Event Date: December 09, 2022

Speakers:

Dr. Warren Clarke, Anthropology, University of Manitoba

Dr. Nathan Derejko, Faculty of Law, University of Manitoba

Reanna Merasty, Artist, Author, and Chair of the Welcoming Winnipeg Committee

Dr. Joel R. Pruce, University of Dayton Human Rights Centre,

Karen Sharma, Manitoba Human Rights Commission

Erica Bota, an illustrator, ThinkLink Graphics

Introductory remarks were from Leah Gazan, Member of Parliament for Winnipeg Centre

The Centre for Human Rights Research (CHRR), in partnership with the Centre for Social Sciences Research and Policy acknowledged Human Rights Day (December 10th) with a conversation with scholars, practitioners, activists, and people who identify as all three on ‘Imagining the Peg as a Human Rights City,’ on Dec. 9, 2022. The panel was chaired by Dr. Shayna Plaut.

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Download the Graphic Recording: https://chrr.info/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/The-PEG-as-a-Human-Rights-City-FINAL1-2-scaled.jpg

Watch the video: https://youtu.be/SRKgrethkCE

Check out the Resource Guide on Human Rights Cities: https://chrr.info/other-resources/human-rights-cities-resource-list/

Read the article in UM Today: https://news.umanitoba.ca/exploring-winnipeg-as-a-human-rights-city/

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September 21, 2022

Research in the Age of COVID

Event Date: September 21, 2022

Speakers:

Michelle Driedger, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba

Stewart Hill, Manitoba Keewatinowi Okimakanak Inc.

Kiera Ladner, Political Science and Mamawipawin, University of Manitoba

Shirley Thompson, Natural Resources Institute, University of Manitoba

Lori Wilkinson, Sociology, University of Manitoba

Series: Methods and Mediums in Human Rights

Recognizing this time of immense change and its impact on the research landscape, on September 21, 2022, the Centre for Human Rights Research at the University of Manitoba focused its Methods and Mediums workshop series on “Research in the Age of COVID.”

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Read the Resource Guide at: https://chrr.info/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Research-in-Age-of-COVID-Reference-List.pdf

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An Event in Honour of Red Dress Day

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What Could Harm Reduction Look Like in Manitoba (Not Just Winnipeg)?

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Every Two Hours: A Special Report on Children and Youth Exposed to Intimate Partner Violence in Manitoba

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Housing Discrimination and Human Rights

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Rethinking Borders: Transnational Movements, Resistance, Identity, and Gender

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Water and Borders: A Roundtable

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