Truth & Reconciliation
“The University of Manitoba is committed to helping the Truth and Reconciliation Commission achieve its objectives in whatever ways we can,” says president David Barnard. What is the University of Manitoba doing?
Water Rights
The right to safe and clean drinking water and sanitation is a human right that is essential for the full enjoyment of life and all human
rights.
- United Nations General Assembly, July 2010
Reproductive and Sexual Rights
Individuals should be able to exercise control over their bodies, including reproductive decision-making and sexual and reproductive security.
Documenting Human Rights
For centuries, artists, writers, filmmakers, archivists and curators have explored human rights struggles in ways that inspire future generations to never forget and to forge ahead.
Events
Events
- Critical Conversations on Sexual and Reproductive Rights
- Residential schools research centre signing: June 21
- Human Rights & Genocide: June 19
- Cree stories: June 24
- Indigenous Voices in Social Work: July 8-11
- Working with journalists
- First Nations, Metis and Inuit Health Research Symposium
- Ovide Mercredi: Sept. 26
- Walking with our Sisters - Beading Club
Human Rights Expertise
Human rights are the basic rights and freedoms to which all human beings are entitled, including civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights.
More than 150 professors at the University of Manitoba focus on human-rights-related research.
See our list of U of M human rights experts.
Call for research proposals from U of M faculty.
U of M Links
Researcher of the Week
| Dr. Elizabeth Comack |
A second, complementary theme has been to understand the life experiences of people—Aboriginal peoples in particular—who are subject to the criminalization process. |
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Dr. Comack is a professor of sociology whose research focuses on social justice and social equality. One theme of her work pertains to the law-society relation: the role of law in reproducing inequalities of race, class, and gender and the potential that law has to bring about substantive social change in areas of social inequality.