The Human Rights Commitment Award of Manitoba looks to the Arts Community

Do you know someone who deserves recognition for human rights work?  All Manitobans are eligible for the Human Rights Commitment Award of Manitoba, and those less than twenty-five years old can be nominated for the Sybil Shack Human Rights Youth Award.  Every year, for International Human Rights Day, the Manitoba Human Rights Commission, the Canadian Human Rights Commission and the Manitoba Association for Rights and Liberties acknowledge human rights work that has advanced the rights of Manitobans. These annual awards recognize those who have promoted respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms.

 The 2010 Human Rights Commitment Award of Manitoba will be given to an individual or a group who has advanced human rights through the arts.  We are looking to those people who through their music, visual arts, theatre, writing, dancing or other art forms have promoted human rights.  This year the focus of the award has changed from the area or type of discrimination to the method of communicating a human rights message. 

The Sybil Shack Human Rights Youth Award will recognize a youth group or young person less than twenty five years of age, who has promoted respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms within Manitoba, this award has no them and is open to all youth under twenty five who have demonstrated a commitment to human rights.

 The nomination forms, which include the criteria for the award, can be found in the following attachment.  Deadline for nominations is November 12, 2010.  The award recipient will be honoured on December 8, 2010 at a reception in the Manitoba Legislative Dining Room. 

  Direct Link to Nomination Form:  http://www.gov.mb.ca/hrc/pdf/nomination_2010.pdf