The Centre for Human Rights Research (CHRR) brings together people and organizations – both within and outside the University of Manitoba – to enhance interdisciplinary and collaborative research capacity, create richer training opportunities for students, and facilitate the fusion of research-driven knowledge, public policy and intellectual debate on issues related to human rights and social justice. The centre aims to facilitate research that is both academically rigorous and accessible to the public.

The inter-faculty initiative is supported by the deans of Arts, Law, Social Work and Education, but we work with researchers from many other faculties as well.

For details, see the CHRR constitution.

Human rights research and teaching has been identified by the University of Manitoba as one of its strategic priorities, at a time when Winnipeg is also preparing for the opening of the new Canadian Museum for Human Rights.

Current research focus

The CHRR has identified preliminary focus areas for large-scale, inter-disciplinary human rights research:

• water as a human right,
• reproductive and sexual rights,
• documenting human rights,
• truth and reconciliation on Indian residential schools,
• immigration and international human rights.