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Explore Your Rights: Interactive Community Map for Youth
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This presentation aims to educate young Montrealers about the various legal rights to which they have access in their communities. The mapping is based on the Prezi platform, which offers an immersive and dynamic experience. (The information in this tool is up to date to January 2025. This tool only applies in Quebec and is […]

5 Key Take-A-Ways on the Right to housing
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This document gathers findings and recommendations from a roundtable hosted by the Simces & Rabkin Family Dialogue on Human Rights in partnership with Equitas and the Canadian Museum for Human Rights tackling the pressing issue of housing rights.

Building a trail: From policy to action

Building a trail: From policy to action
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This interactive presentation is a depiction of a collective activity during a gathering of Equitas partners in 2024. Participants were invited to think on solutions and strategies to turn recommended policies into implementable and concrete action. Discover a trail for a better implementation of policy related to gender equality, gender-based violence and participation of women. […]

Human rights education… What is that?

Human rights education... What is that?
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This graphic was made as part of a visual thinking workshop hosted by Percolab during an Equitas event in 2024 involving 30+ human rights educators and partners. The graphic is the product of the ideas that were shared and summarizes what is the human rights education process. Also available in French.

The purpose of children’s rights
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This video spotlights several fundamental children’s rights enshrined in the Convention on the Rights of the Child. It sheds light on the stark reality that, despite these protections, numerous children in Canada continue to face rights violations. Children’s rights emphasize the importance of treating all children equally, with dignity, and with utmost respect. Also available […]

What is intersectionality?
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This video was created as part of the Global Rights Connection 2022 human rights online training. It does a quick review of how the concept of intersectionality was developed and how it is used today as a framework to situate oppressions, as well as how it fosters inclusivity. Also available in French.

The Learning Spiral
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This video explains the Learning Spiral, a learning model that engages learners in actively constructing their learning experience, fostering them to apply their newly gained knowledge into practice. Also available in French. 

The 5-Steps Process
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This video explains the 5-step process that enables community members to identify the human rights and gender equality issues affecting their community using a participatory approach. Also available in French.

Splash and Ripple
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This video about the Splash and Ripple analogy helps us understand the concept of change that human rights education produces over time and how this change can be measured at different levels. Also available in French.

L’approche systémique
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This video explains the systems approach to evaluating human rights education initiatives against other local and global actions for change that also address similar human rights issues. Also available in English.