An Event in Honour of Red Dress Day with Cambria Harris
May 2, 2024
Cambria Harris

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On Thursday, May 2nd, 2024, Indigenous Engagement and Communications, the Department of Indigenous Studies, the Margaret Laurence Endowment Fund (Women’s and Gender Studies) and the Centre for Human Rights Research at the University of Manitoba were honoured to host Cambria Harris for an event in honour of the National MMIWG2S+ Awareness Day, or Red Dress Day.
The name ‘Red Dress Day’ is inspired by the work of Métis artist Jamie Black who began The REDress Project in 2010 to raises awareness about the thousands of missing and murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA+ Peoples. It began as an art installation that hung hundreds of empty red dresses in public spaces to remind people of the First Nations, Métis, and Inuit women and girls lost because of gender-based violence.
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Migrant Reproductive Justice: Perinatal and abortion care with precarious immigration status with Dr. Lindsay Larios
Migrant Reproductive Justice: Perinatal and abortion care with precarious immigration status with Dr. Lindsay Larios
April 2, 2024
Dr. Lindsay Larios

On April 2, 2024, the Centre for Human Rights Research (CHRR) hosted Dr. Lindsay Larios (UManitoba) for a seminar titled “Migrant Reproductive Justice: Perinatal and abortion care with precarious immigration status.”
Dr. Lindsay Larios is an interdisciplinary critical policy researcher and assistant professor of social work at the University of Manitoba. She studies citizenship and immigration in the Canadian context, in particular, as it intersects with family and reproductive politics and policies. Her most recent work focuses on the politics of pregnancy and childbirth and precarious migration as an issue of reproductive justice.
This seminar is a part of our annual Critical Conversations seminar series. This year, the seminar series focused on the CHRR’s research theme Reproductive and Bodily Justice and explored histories of the body, reproduction, and care in Canada and beyond.

The Right to Clean Water in First Nations: The Photovoice Project (2nd Edition)
The Right to Clean Water in First Nations: The Photovoice Project (2nd Edition)
April 2, 2024
Colin Bonnycastle

The right to water and sanitation remains a key focus and modern day human rights issue in Canada. Indigenous communities in Canada are overrepresented with respect to poor water quality and water advisories. Protecting Indigenous rights to water and sanitation is best done by community grassroots approach.
This Photovoice project stems from a 2011 SSHRC Partnership Development Grant led by Prof. Karen Busby (Principal Investigator) and Colin Bonnycastle (Co-Investigator). Nisichawayasihk Cree Nation and the students and staff at Atoskiwin Training & Employment Centre of Excellence Centre (ATEC) created a Photovoice Project to bring awareness to the impacts of unsafe drinking water and sanitation practices in Indigenous communities.
The research remains crucial today as communities continue to advocate for access to clean drinking water.
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Migrant Justice and Human Rights: A Resource Guide
Migrant Justice and Human Rights: A Resource Guide
April 2024
Angela Ciceron

In March 2024, the Centre for Human Rights Research hosted Mostafa Henaway, a long-time community organizer with Immigrant Workers Centre in Montreal. Henaway’s work emphasized the structural and transnational issues propelling migrant workers to undertake precarious work under neoliberal capitalism, as well as efforts made by migrants to resist these structures. This resource guide aims to expand on this conversation by providing resources on the experiences of migrant workers under neoliberalism and their role in Canadian society more broadly.
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Care Activism in Canada: Migrant Domestic Workers, Dissident Friendships and Decolonial Care
Care Activism in Canada: Migrant Domestic Workers, Dissident Friendships and Decolonial Care
March 19, 2024
Dr. Ethel Tungohan and Diwa Marcelino

Dr. Ethel Tungohan in conversation with Diwa Marcelino, Migrante Manitoba
In collaboration with the Global College – University of Winnipeg, the Centre for Human Rights Research (CHRR) at the University of Manitoba hosted Dr. Ethel Tungohan (York University) for a seminar titled Care Activism in Canada: Migrant Domestic Workers, Dissident Friendships and Decolonial Care. Dr. Tungohan was in conversation with Migrante Manitoba representative and community organizer Diwa Marcelino.
Ethel Tungohan is a Canada Research Chair in Canadian Migration Policy, Impacts and Activism and an Associate Professor of Politics at York University in Toronto, Canada. Her book, “Care Activism: Migrant Domestic Workers, Communities of Care, and Movement Building,”, won the National Women’s Studies Association First Book Prize. Her research looks at social movements, immigration policy, social and public policy, and Canadian and comparative politics.
Diwa Marcelino is a community organizer with Migrante Manitoba, a grassroots organization advancing the rights and welfare of overseas Filipinos within the framework of peoples’ struggle for democracy, justice & peace in the Philippines. Migrante Manitoba is a founding member of Health Care for All Manitoba, an alliance advocating for expanded public health care coverage to include all residents of Manitoba regardless of status. During the Freedom Convoy occupations in 2022, he became the national project manager for the Community Solidarity Project, a civil society response to rise of the politics of division and hate. He is also a founding member of Community Solidarity Manitoba. He is also the vice-chairperson of the Council of Canadians, a grassroots organization challenging corporate power and advocating for people, the planet and our democracy. He is also a steering committee member of KAIROS, an ecumenical organization promoting ecological justice and human rights.
This seminar is a part of our annual Critical Conversations seminar series. This year, the seminar series focused on the CHRR’s research theme Reproductive and Bodily Justice and explored histories of the body, reproduction, and care in Canada and beyond.

“The Crying Need For Indian Foster Homes”: Indigenous Women Challenge State Child Welfare Practices With Sarah Nickel, PhD.
"The Crying Need For Indian Foster Homes": Indigenous Women Challenge State Child Welfare Practices With Sarah Nickel, PhD.
March 12, 2024
Dr. Sarah Nickel

The Centre for Human Rights Research (CHRR) hosted a seminar titled “The crying need for Indian foster homes”: Indigenous Women Challenge State Child Welfare Practices with Dr. Sarah Nickel (UAlberta) on Tuesday, March 12, 2024, at 2:30 pm in 543-544 UMSU University Centre.
Sarah Nickel is Tk’emlúpsemc, French Canadian, and Ukrainian, and an associate professor of History at the University of Alberta. Her work focuses on twentieth century Indigenous politics and the gendered nature of political work drawing on community- engaged methodologies. Her first book, Assembling Unity: Indigenous Politics, Gender, and the Union of BC Indian Chiefs was published in 2019 with UBC Press and won the Canadian Historical Association’s prize for Best Book in Indigenous History in 2020. Sarah’s second monograph, Active Women: Indigenous Women’s Social and Political Work in Kanata’s West will be published with the University of Toronto Press in late 2024.
This seminar is a part of our annual Critical Conversations seminar series. This year, the seminar series focused on the CHRR’s research theme Reproductive and Bodily Justice and explored histories of the body, reproduction, and care in Canada and beyond.

Article in The Manitoban: Shortfalls in menstrual equity at U of M, audit reveals
Article in The Manitoban: Shortfalls in menstrual equity at U of M, audit reveals
August 24, 30
Kyra Campbell

Kyra Campbell, reporter for The Manitoban, covered the work of the “Period Poverty & Equity, On Campus and Beyond” project, including the campus audit and the button-making event. Read more at The Manitoban!
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Innocents Behind Bars: Systemic Racism and Wrongful Convictions
Innocents Behind Bars: Systemic Racism and Wrongful Convictions
November 28, 2023
Kara Sievewright

The Canadian Museum for Human Rights, the Centre for Human Rights Research (University of Manitoba), and the Faculty of Law (University of Manitoba) co-organized and sponsored a public event on November 28, 2023 “Innocents Behind Bars: Systemic Racism and Wrongful Convictions.” There were over 125 people in attendance, as well as 25 people joining online.
The panel brought together leaders of the police torture justice/reparations movement in Chicago, into conversation with those working on demanding justice for Indigenous and racialized peoples wrongly imprisoned here in Canada.This event is inspired by the July 2023 release of Allan Woodhouse and Brian Anderson who were wrongfully imprisoned for a murder they did not commit and spent almost fifty years fighting to clear their names. Brian Anderson and members of his family were in attendance and Allan Woodhouse was able to join virtually.
Artist Kara Sievewright, Maker of Nets captured highlights of the event with a graphic recording.
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Innocents Behind Bars: Systemic Racism and Wrongful Convictions
Innocents Behind Bars: Systemic Racism and Wrongful Convictions
November 28, 2023
Amanda Carling, James Lockyer, Alice Kim, Gregory Banks, Niigaan Sinclair, Elder Robert Greene

On November 28, 2023, the Canadian Museum for Human Rights, the Centre for Human Rights Research (University of Manitoba), and the Faculty of Law (University of Manitoba) co-organized and sponsored a public event “Innocents Behind Bars: Systemic Racism and Wrongful Convictions.”
We were honoured to welcome:
- Amanda Carling, CEO, BC First Nations Justice Council
- James Lockyer, Founding Director, Innocence Canada
- Alice Kim, Director of Human Rights Practice, Centre for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture
- Gregory Banks, Torture Survivor and Learning Fellow, Chicago Torture Justice Center (joining virtually)
- Facilitated by Dr. Niigaan Sinclair, Indigenous Studies, University of Manitoba
- Opening remarks from Elder Robert Greene, Canadian Museum for Human Rights

Wrongful Convictions and Systemic Racism: A Resource Guide
Wrongful Convictions and Systemic Racism: A Resource Guide
November 2023
Stephen Carney, Alana Conway, Carlie Kane, Dr. Pauline Tennent

A Resource Guide with links to resources related to wrongful convictions and the impact of systemic racism and discrimination on the justice systems in settler colonial contexts such as Canada, the United States, and other countries around the world.
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