Subject
Grade
Concept/Content
advocacy for human rights, including findings and recommendations of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Elaboration
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Sample topics:
- Truth and Reconciliation Commission report and calls to action (e.g., access to elders and First Peoples healing practices for First Peoples patients; appropriate commemoration ceremonies and burial markers for children who died at residential schools)
- human rights tribunals
- Canadian Bill of Rights and Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
- Supreme Court challenges
- international declarations (e.g., UN Declaration on the Rights of the Child; UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples)
- anti-racism education and actions
- First Peoples protest and advocacy movements (e.g., National Indian Brotherhood, Oka Crisis, Idle No More)
- other protest and advocacy movements (e.g., Pride, women’s liberation, inclusion)
- redress movements for historic wrongs (e.g., Japanese-Canadian Legacy Project, Truth and Reconciliation)
- federal and provincial apologies (e.g., apology for Chinese Head Tax and Chinese Exclusion Act; Chinese Historical Wrongs Consultation Final Report and Recommendations regarding head tax and discriminatory treatment of Chinese immigrants; apologies for internments, residential schools, Komagata Maru)
keywords
advocacy for human rights, including findings and recommendations of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission