Human Rights Defenders Exhibit
Canadian Museum for Human Rights
This exhibit features Canadians and others who have contributed significantly to human rights through their work and personal lives.
View samples of my writing for this exhibit.
This exhibit features Canadians and others who have contributed significantly to human rights through their work and personal lives.
View samples of my writing for this exhibit.
Canadian Museum for Human Rights
In Breaking the Silence, a giant interactive table sits in the centre of the gallery, with points that expand with information when you touch them.
The table explores 19 examples of genocide and mass atrocity from around the world, and breaks each event down into four stages that are common to all genocides and major atrocities:
The interactive display emphasizes the importance of speaking out to protect human rights before human rights violations escalate. More »
Canadian Museum for Human Rights
The Protecting Rights in Canada exhibit includes a series of interactive stations where visitors watch news clips about, and read arguments for and against, key Canadian court cases that have defined humans rights in Canada—often on very divisive issues.
Visitors are then asked to “vote” for which side they think is correct. After everyone at the station has voted, the results are displayed alongside a running tally of all the ballots people who have cast at the exhibit before them. More »