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The online teacher resource on human rights, “Speak Truth To Power Canada”, has received this year’s Award of Outstanding Achievement in New Media by the Canadian Museums Association.

The Canadian Museums Association (CMA) award was presented at the CMA annual National Conference meeting in Halifax on 13 April to the Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR), an important contributor to the development of “Speak Truth to Power Canada” (STPC). The CMHR is a free online teacher resource that brings to life the education of human rights for Grades 6-12 across Canada. It was developed by the Canadian Teachers’ Federation (CTF), an Education International (EI) affiliate, the CMHR, the Assembly of First Nations, the Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, and the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights.

John Heffernan, Executive Director of Speak Truth To Power for RFK Center, said they “are thrilled” that this award from the CMA, the national organisation working for the recognition, growth, and stability of Canada's museum sector.

Partnership

“In order to build a citizenry of students committed to holding their society to the highest standards of equality and justice, we have to rely on excellent partners such as the Canadian Human Rights museum and the Canadian Teachers’ Federation,” stressed Heffernan. The CMHR invited the CTF to join them in accepting the award at the ceremony.

Active citizenship

Heffernan added that, this year, Speak Truth To Power will host global educators and social movement experts at two events to help create a structure that can activate the citizenry of millions of Speak Truth To Power students and teachers to advocate on behalf of human rights. The CTF and the CMHR will have representatives at a San Francisco, USA event, while Education International, a Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights' partner, will play a key role in the gathering in Brussels, Belgium, in September 2016.