On Tuesday, November 28^th, at 12noon CST, the Centre for Human Rights Research and Faculty of Law at the University of Manitoba, and the Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR), will host "Innocents Behind Bars: Systemic Racism and Wrongful Convictions." The event will take place at the MTS Classroom, CMHR.

We look forward to welcoming:

• Amanda Carling, CEO, BC First Nations Justice Council
• James Lockyer, Founding Director, Innocence Canada
• Alice Kim, Director of Human Rights Practice, Centre for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture
• Gregory Banks, Torture Survivor and Learning Fellow, Chicago Torture Justice Center (joining virtually)
• Kara Sievewright, Graphic Recording Artist (joining virtually)
• Facilitated by Dr. Niigaan Sinclair, Indigenous Studies, University of Manitoba

This event is inspired by the recent release of Allan Woodhouse and Brian Anderson who were wrongfully imprisoned for a murder they did not commit and spent almost fifty years fighting to clear their names. The panel will bring leaders of the police torture justice/reparations movement in Chicago, into conversation with those working on demanding justice for Indigenous and racialized peoples wrongly imprisoned here in Canada.

For folks who can’t make it out to the Canadian Museum of Human Rights or for those outside Winnipeg, please register for the Zoom webinar at: https://tinyurl.com/mr95cjwx

To register for in-person attendance, click here: https://tinyurl.com/4k8ahx3n

Please share with your networks!

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Pauline Tennent, PhD  (she/her/hers)

Manager, Centre for Human Rights Research 

442 Robson Hall

University of Manitoba

Winnipeg, MB  Canada R3T 2N2

Tel: 204.474.6156

Pauline.Tennent@umanitoba.ca

The University of Manitoba campuses are located on the original lands of the Anishinaabeg, Cree, Oji-Cree, Dakota, and Dene peoples, and on the homeland of the Métis Nation.