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The Centre for Human Rights Research at the University of Manitoba has established a Speakers Bureau to assist Manitoba teachers interested in educating their Grade 7-12 students about human rights issues. Read our brochure.

Our presentations, available both in-person and virtually, help teachers fulfill curriculum requirements, as it relates to:

  • social studies
  • history
  • global issues
  • law

Our student volunteers have also given presentations at youth conferences focused on social issues or human rights.

University students, mostly enrolled in Law or the Master of Human Rights program, are available to speak on a number of subjects related to The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, Canadian Aboriginal law, and human rights. Presentations are approximately 30 minutes in length, followed by a discussion with the class led by the university student. The presentation, which can be tailored to the needs of your students, will usually focus on two or three of the most important cases decided by the Supreme Court of Canada on a particular right.

Speakers Bureau volunteers are able to present September to November and January to March. It may be possible to make special arrangements for dates outside of those months. All our student presenters are volunteers and the presentations are free of charge.

To request a presentation, fill out this form. If you have already hosted a presentation, please fill in our evaluation forms.

You can contact Faith Daza, the Speakers Bureau coordinator at chrrspk@umanitoba.ca

Additional resources are available to help teach your class about Aboriginal or human rights.

Information for student volunteers.

Thanks to the Faculty of Law Endowment Fund for supporting this initiative.