Humans, On Rights

Stuart Murray
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Humans, On Rights

Humans, On Rights is an intellectual and stimulating conversation with human rights grassroots influencers, community leaders, policymakers, advocates and educators about their passion to become human rights champions. Humans, On Rights host Stuart Murray, the Inaugural President & CEO of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights will explore with his guest the power of a positive outcome when you connect the three human rights dots - Education. Mobilization. Take Action.

  1. Molly McCracken: Rectifying Manitoba’s Pay Gap

    1 DAY AGO

    Molly McCracken: Rectifying Manitoba’s Pay Gap

    Pay discrimination and inequality persist in Manitoba with women earning, on average, 71 % of what men earn. To talk about this disparity, we talk with Molly McCracken, Director of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives - Manitoba office. Molly talks about a very indepth, well researched, and well written document called “Tired of Waiting : Rectifying Manitoba’s Pay Gap”. She has over 17 years of experience as a research manager and advisor in various social and economic policy areas. She is a member of the Climate Action Team Manitoba, the Equal Pay Day Manitoba Coalition, Chair of the Provincial Committee to Make Poverty History Manitoba and a Member of the Manitoba Research Alliance. Molly holds a Master’s degree in Public Policy and Administration from Carleton University and an undergraduate honours degree in Sociology and Women’s Studies . Facebook : Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives www.policyalternatives.ca policyfix.ca See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

    44 min
  2. Darcy Ataman: Travel Safe

    SEPT 19

    Darcy Ataman: Travel Safe

    Darcy Ataman is a Canadian humanitarian, music producer, and the founder and CEO of Make Music Matter, an organization that uses music therapy to help survivors of conflict and trauma. He created the Healing in Harmony program, which integrates music therapy with psychological support to assist individuals in recovering from traumatic experiences, particularly survivors of sexual violence and conflict in countries like Rwanda, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), and others. His work focuses on empowering marginalized communities by allowing participants to express their emotions and stories through music, helping them heal emotionally and psychologically. Ataman has collaborated with Nobel Peace Prize laureate Dr. Denis Mukwege to expand this initiative, and Healing in Harmony has helped over 15,000 people across multiple countries. He has also worked on projects with Indigenous communities in Canada to address generational trauma. As a music producer, Ataman has collaborated with notable artists and earned several Juno nominations. His contributions to humanitarian causes have earned him multiple awards, including the Order of Manitoba and the Meritorious Service Cross from the Governor General of Canada. Darcy’s latest creation is an art installation, made entirely from donated shoes, once belonging to and donated by displaced refugees, entitled Travel Safe. Travel Safe is a large-scale recreation of Turkish photojournalist Nilüfer’s photo of the body of two year old Alan Kurdi, who had drowned, along with his mother and brother, in the Mediterranean Sea while trying to reach Europe in September 2015. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/_makemusicmatter_ See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

    40 min
  3. Carol Off: At A Loss For Words

    SEPT 12

    Carol Off: At A Loss For Words

    Over the course of her incredible career, Carol Off has reached a level of journalistic excellence that has been equalled by few. She has covered conflicts in the Middle East, Haiti, the Balkans and the sub-continent. As well as events in the former Soviet Union, Europe, Asia, the United States and Canada. She reported the fallout from the 9/11 disasters with news features and documentaries from New York, Washington, London, Cairo, and Afghanistan and has won numerous awards from her CBC television documentaries in Asia, Africa and Europe. This fall, Carol Off returns with a provocative new book that digs deep into six words whose meanings have been distorted and weaponized in recent years -including democracy, freedom, and truth – and asks whether we can reclaim their value. As co-host of CBC Radio’s As It Happens, Carol Off spent a decade and a half talking to people in the news five nights a week. Those interviews have given Carol a unique vantage point on the crucial subject at the heart of her new book – how, in these polarizing years, words that used to define civil society and social justice are being put to work for a completely different political agenda. Or they are being bleached of their meaning as the values they represent are mocked and distorted. As Off writes “if our language doesn’t have a means to express an idea, then the idea itself is gone –even the range of thought is diminished.” And, as she argues, that is a dangerous loss. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

    44 min
  4. Cathy Ching: Human Rights Book Award Winner

    AUG 29

    Cathy Ching: Human Rights Book Award Winner

    Cathy Ching and the South Central Regional Library System were recently recognized by the Manitoba Library Association alongside the Association of Manitoba Book Publishers as the inaugural Human Rights Book Award. Cathy Ching talks about how Manitoba libraries are upholding fundamental values of intellectual freedom, inclusion and diversity despite recent calls for censorship and the harassment of library workers. Ching and her team at South Central Regional Library have remained passionately steadfast, and according to their nominator for the Human Rights Book Award “remarkably positive throughout their censorship ordeals”. Cathy Ching has been with South Central Regional Library for 20 years and has served at the Director Level for the past 8 years. As you will hear directly form Cathy, she loves her job and loves the people she works with. Cathy Ching is passionate about living in rural Manitoba where she spends sharing her life with mother nature’s wildlife. X: @MB_Lib_Assn Instagram: mb_library_asoc Facebook: Manitoba Library Association See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

    44 min
  5. Hafsa Altaf: Modern Modest Women

    AUG 15

    Hafsa Altaf: Modern Modest Women

    Fashion by Hafsa is a progressive artistic line of clothing designed for the modern modest woman. Hafsa uses influences from her experiences from different cultures to create a unique line of modest clothing. Being designed to be worn by anyone regardless of belief is important as Hafsa’s vision is to bring the old world into the new world, to respect the past while modernizing to prepare for the future. Hand painted designs stand out to promote a woman’s forward fashion sense while respecting ones preferences and beliefs regardless of body type or background.  When asked the reason she gave up everything, including leaving her family to pursue her profession Hafsa said “There is not any local space/organizations that talks about this modesty and female empowerment…another reason why I am doing what I am doing to help bring more awareness and help other muslim women.” https://www.instagram.com/fashionbyhafsa Facebook: Fashion By Hafsa Pinterest: Fashionbyhafsa TikTok See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

    40 min
  6. Cordella Friesen: YMCA-YWCA

    AUG 1

    Cordella Friesen: YMCA-YWCA

    Cordella Friesen is the President & CEO of the YMCA-YWCA of Winnipeg which has been a community based organization in Winnipeg for 145 years.

    53 min
  7. Shane Henderson: Human Rights. Welcome Place.

    JUL 18

    Shane Henderson: Human Rights. Welcome Place.

    Shane Henderson is the Executive Director of Manitoba Interfaith Immigration Council commonly known as Welcome Place.

    46 min
  8. Suzanne Carrière: If We Can All Be Friends, We Can All Move Forward

    JUL 4

    Suzanne Carrière: If We Can All Be Friends, We Can All Move Forward

    Canada’s first Métis citizenship judge, Suzanne Carrière, has presided over 1,950 citizenship ceremonies, personally welcoming over 145,000 newcomers into the Canadian family. As one of only 9 citizenship judges in Canada, she uses her platform unfailingly to speak about reconciliation being a shared responsibility of all Canadians, whether Indigenous or non-Indigenous, whether born here or elsewhere. In June 2021, she was honoured to preside the very first citizenship ceremony in Canadian history using a revised oath of citizenship recognizing the right of Indigenous Peoples, in response to TRC Call to Action #94. “New Canadians I find are really receptive to the message and the idea of reconciliation. Sometimes even more so than people that are born here. I think because many of them might come from other colonized countries, so they’ve experienced colonization before. So a lot of them really seem to get it, and so one of the best parts of my job are when I get to have interesting conversations with people about reconciliation and what people’s role is in reconciliation in Canada. Suzanne has many Indigenous leaders that she admires. Perhaps one of the more well known of those Indigenous leaders is the former member of the Senate and the Chief Commissioner of Canada’s Indian Residential Schools Truth and Reconciliation Commission. She was forever impressed with his powerful conversation about the simplicity of why we should simply strive to be friends. Prior to her appointment as a citizenship judge, she practiced law for over 14 years, including 8 years with the federal Department of Justice in Aboriginal Legal Services. During that time, she represented Canada in more than 200 hearings and settlement interviews with Indian residential school survivors as part of a dispute resolution process established to resolve claims of physical, sexual or emotional abuse suffered at the schools. She considers this work to have been life-changing. Suzanne Carrière is proudly Red River Métis on both sides of her family, and lives, works and plays on Treaty 1 territory with her husband and three children. Among the many suggested books to read, here are but a few:  The Inconvenient Indian (Thomas King); Red River Girl (Joanna Jolly); Indian in the Cabinet (Jody Wilson Raybould); See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

    53 min
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Humans, On Rights is an intellectual and stimulating conversation with human rights grassroots influencers, community leaders, policymakers, advocates and educators about their passion to become human rights champions. Humans, On Rights host Stuart Murray, the Inaugural President & CEO of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights will explore with his guest the power of a positive outcome when you connect the three human rights dots - Education. Mobilization. Take Action.

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  • Creator
    Stuart Murray
  • Years Active
    2021 - 2024
  • Episodes
    91
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    © 2021 COHRE 2021
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