In honour of Canada’s National Victims and Survivors of Crime Week, the John Humphrey Centre for Peace and Human Rights (JHC) hosted a virtual roundtable discussion and network gathering on November 20, 2021, to address how to best support victims and survivors of hate crimes within Alberta by strengthening a community of legal practice and advocacy.
Here are our findings.
Read MoreThis series of 6 workshops is designed using methods and processes informed by popular education and community-based research.
Read MoreRoxanne discusses International day of persons with disabilities with CBC News. Roxanne Ulanicki is the lead facilitator of the Radical Inclusion report that was submitted to the United Nations in September 2021. Radical Inclusion, the group behind the report, was facilitated by the John Humphrey Centre for Peace and Human Rights. Funding support came from the Edmonton Community Foundation.
Read MoreWhen seniors don’t have family members close by, some concerns can become particularly challenging. Friends and neighbors often feel called to help but aren’t always sure how. Here you will find some tips on how to help them.
Read MoreSocial Stride, an initiative led by youth will present their research findings and share their experiences addressing hate and discrimination online The public event will take place online on April 02, 2020.
Read MoreDear Staff, Board and Volunteers of John Humphrey Centre for Peace and Human Rights,
Firstly, I want to thank you all for all the hard work and effort this year. JHC continued to help hold the community as we transitioned out of the COVID response efforts. So much has been accomplished, and we have had, and continue to have, an incredible impact on our community as we strive to build a human rights city; a place where all belong, are valued and participate.
Read MoreThe first shoot for the documentary Journey For Justice was an introduction to Mahamad Accord. I haven’t seen Mahamad since 2017 so there was a lot of catching up to do. Our team developed some questions for him to answer, with questions highlighting Mahamad’s advocacy work and his experience asking for Justice on unsolved murders from 2007-2014. The location to meet Mahamad was at GUUTO Somali restaurant. GUUTO is also a coffee shop and Mahamad had a coffee ready. I also shot an exterior shot of Mahamad walking into GUUTO Restaurant.
Read MoreThe aim of the Pantry was to create a safe place for in-need community members to access free food within the Alberta Ave. With the barriers put up for families to access food through the schools and the deepening of the COVID pandemic’s impact on the most vulnerable, as a collective, our goal was to ensure dignity and access to food.
Read MoreThe Patrol emphasizes the importance of providing support to the community through non-violent, non-threatening, and non-judgemental approaches. They are a community based group that fosters a sense of safety and solidarity with a mandate that includes respect, awareness, care, compassion, outreach, and committed relationship building.
Read MoreCANAVUA offers many services and programs that are deeply integrated within the community. For example, they offer volunteer placements, capacity building, driver training courses, and they also have a Community Service Learning (CSL) collaboration with the University of Alberta. More importantly, they operate a food bank in Edmonton’s Francophone community, in La Cité Francophone.
Read MoreThe Multicultural Health Brokers Cooperative (MCHB) is a cooperative that empowers cultural minority individuals and their families to realize their full potential to live freely and peacefully in a just society that is inter-culturally secure through cultural brokering practice.
Read MoreI remember meeting some pretty cool women at the event for the first time, not knowing how I would come to work alongside them in the next few years. I met Roxanne, a fierce disability rights activist, and Ruthann, a leader in promoting psychological safety in workplaces. And, I learned about the struggles and resistance of women - those that identify as white, as women of color, as immigrants, as settlers, and beyond - that I had not heard before, despite some even being colleagues or friends.
Read MoreThe following is a simple dialogue plan that you can implement in your home community to build bridges between grassroots individuals and agencies working to affect change around food security.
Read MoreIn Regina, stakeholders engaged in the conversation all agree that there is an increasing need for emergency food response while also a strengthening of local food systems through collaboration and community building for longer term sustainable change.
Read MoreThe current realities around income support keep people in a constant state of struggle and food response programs are not always aware or cater to the unique needs of people nor do they provide enough food. People can spend the majority of their time trying to secure enough food from multiple sources which is not dignified nor a good use of people’s time and resources.
Read MoreFood Insecurity has long been an issue that spurred the opening of the first Food Bank in Canada, located right here in Edmonton, Alberta in 1981. Yet after 40 years, we are no closer to ending food insecurity and hunger despite exhaustive campaigns and events throughout the year with the constant ask for donations of money, food and time.
Read MoreThroughout September to November 2021, a team from Red Deer and area came together to reflect on racism, hate and discrimination.
Read MoreIn the summer of 2020, the West Hub of Righting Relations (constituted by partner agencies and individuals from Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba) conducted outreach across the country through the Righting Relations National Network to gather thoughts and perspectives on food security across the country to provide inspiration for education and advocacy on how we can collectively innovate to shift our food systems.
Read MoreThe JHC Community Kitchen was created as a way to address systemic food insecurity in amiskwaciwâskahikan (aka Edmonton). We have found that access to nutritious food has been pushed to the margins for many people in our communities.
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