The Interconnections of Water and Menstrual Justice in Canada
February 6, 2025
Emma Cowman
As part of the Just Waters project, researchers, students, and co-resistors from the University of Manitoba, Douglas College, and Moon Time Connections are coming together to explore the interconnections between water and menstrual justice in Canada. Check out this primer to learn more.
Doing the Work: What Settlers need to know about the Residential School System: Infographic
Doing the Work: What Settlers need to know about the Residential School System: Infographic
October 1, 2024
Laura Majendaagoz
In honour of National Day for Truth and Reconciliation 2024, the CHRR has created an infographic from the resource guide, Doing the Work: What Settlers need to know about the Residential School System. This infographic is meant to guide those seeking to learn more about the residential schooling system through a step-by-step approach to navigating key documents from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation.
Doing the Work: What Settlers need to know about the Residential School System is a resource guide developed by the panel from “Doing the Work: A virtual Q & A on what settlers need to know about the residential school system in Canada”, an event hosted by CHRR on Thursday, August 12th 2021. The resource guide was updated in August 2023.
Period Poverty and Equity, On Campus and Beyond Infographic
Period Poverty and Equity, On Campus and Beyond Infographic
August 2, 2024
Graphic Design: Angela Ciceron
In 2023, with funding from the Centre for Human Rights Research (CHRR), the Faculty of Arts, and the University of Manitoba’s Strategic Initiatives Support Fund, a group of researchers affiliated with the CHRR came together to explore and address menstrual equity on campus. The “Period Poverty and Equity, On Campus and Beyond” project undertook a campus audit of washrooms to assess availability of menstrual supplies; a survey open to UM students, staff, and faculty; as well as a number of outreach events.
Working towards period equity is not as a charitable endeavour to be ameliorated by donations of period supplies; rather menstrual equity is an issue of justice. Shifting the conversation from period poverty to menstrual justice means asking that all people who menstruate be provided with the resources, tools, and infrastructure to do so with safety and dignity.
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