• 2026 Lavender Graduation at the University of Manitoba

    2026 Lavender Graduation at the University of Manitoba

    Lavender Graduation is an annual ceremony conducted on university and college campuses to honor queer and trans students to acknowledge their achievements and contributions as they graduate their degrees. The Lavender Graduation Ceremony was created by Dr. Ronni Sanlo, a Jewish Lesbian, who was denied the opportunity to attend the graduations of her biological children because…

  • Dr. Adele Perry on Alex Neve’s Universal: Renewing Human Rights in a Fractured World 

    Dr. Adele Perry on Alex Neve’s Universal: Renewing Human Rights in a Fractured World 

    Following a series of events with Alex Neve in Winnipeg, CHRR director Dr. Adele Perry published a review of Neve’s recently published Universal: Renewing Human Rights in a Fractured World on the Winnipeg Free Press (November 8, 2025). Published this year in September 2025, Universal explores the promise of universal human rights and how we…

  • Bill 43 – the Human Rights Code Amendment Act, Adding Gender Expression as a Protected Characteristic

    Bill 43 – the Human Rights Code Amendment Act, Adding Gender Expression as a Protected Characteristic

    On Monday, June 2nd, 2025, Bill 43 passed its third and final reading in the Manitoba legislature. Bill 43, the Human Rights Code Amendment Act, added gender expression to the list of protected characteristics under the Manitoba Human Rights Code. With the passing of this Bill, Manitoba joins the majority of Canada in including gender…

  • ‘Period Poverty and Equity, On Campus and Beyond’ Project Receives Collaborative Sustainability Award

    ‘Period Poverty and Equity, On Campus and Beyond’ Project Receives Collaborative Sustainability Award

    The Centre for Human Rights Research (CHRR) is proud to announce that the University of Manitoba Office of Sustainability awarded the ‘Period Poverty and Equity, On Campus and Beyond Project’ (PPECB) the Collaborative Sustainability Award on April 15th, 2025. The Collaborative Sustainability Award “recognizes a unique collaborative effort between students, faculty, staff, and community members…

  • 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 pieces of artwork related to the CHRR’s research themes for the chance to receive an honorarium, determined by the CARFAC-RAAV…

  • 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

    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 time.”[1] What might it mean to read the ocean as whispers and secrets – as an archive? What pasts might…

  • World Water Day: Why Menstrual Justice Matters Too

    World Water Day: Why Menstrual Justice Matters Too

    Every March 22, the United Nations’ World Water Day calls attention to the importance of water and access to safe water. Yet these discussions on the importance of water often ignore how in many contexts, lack of clean water is a direct form of colonial violence, including here in Canada, disproportionately impacting Indigenous communities, particularly…

  • Reflecting on a Decade of Pro-Choice Student Activism at the University of Manitoba’s Fort Garry Campus

    Reflecting on a Decade of Pro-Choice Student Activism at the University of Manitoba’s Fort Garry Campus

    This photo essay highlights and commends University of Manitoba (UM) students who have, for more than a decade, counterprotested and launched initiatives against anti-choice groups on UM’s Fort Garry Campus (FGC). These students have challenged harmful anti-choice narratives and imagery, advocated for a safer campus, and pushed for improved access to reproductive education and healthcare.…

  • Beyond the Binary: Celebrating Trans, Non-Binary, & Gender-Expansive Folks on International Women’s Day

    Beyond the Binary: Celebrating Trans, Non-Binary, & Gender-Expansive Folks on International Women’s Day

    International Women’s Day (IWD) is a day to celebrate the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women. This is a day to celebrate the resilience and accomplishments of those oppressed under patriarchal systems, while serving as a reminder of the ongoing global struggles for gender equity and justice. However, this day of celebration has…

  • The Conversation: Living to tell the story: Lawsuit accuses ER doctor of anti-Indigenous racism

    The Conversation: Living to tell the story: Lawsuit accuses ER doctor of anti-Indigenous racism

    By: Mary Jane Logan McCallum and Adele Perry As written in The Conversation Canada On Jan. 15, 2023, Justin Flett arrived at the emergency room at St. Anthony’s Hospital, in The Pas, Manitoba. According to Flett’s statement of claim, submitted to the Court of King’s Bench of Manitoba in December and as reported by CBC…