Human Rights Holocaust Studies

One of the major initiatives of The Asper Foundation is its Human Rights and Holocaust Studies Program. The program objectives are to promote tolerance and sensitize Canadian grade nine age high school students to the consequences of racism through a specially designed education program. This program, which started in 1997 in Winnipeg, Canada, is now a national initiative that is inclusive of students from many backgrounds. It is the recipient of the 2004 Human Rights Award from the Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission in recognition of (its) creative means of advancing and protecting human rights and working to address racism in our communities.

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