Thunder Bay’s Bora Laskin Faculty of Law will be hosting a book launch for Canadian Human Rights Champions – The Arduous Journey.
The book is an anthology chronicling the stories of 38 Canadian champions of human rights.
The event will feature some of those champions, including Stella Bowles, who at 11 began a movement to clean up a heavily polluted Nova Scotia river, Art Miki, who played a key role in Canada’s reparations agreement with Japanese Canadians, and Doreen Manuel, whose late husband George Manuel advocated for the United Nations Universal Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
The event will also feature Ecojustice, Canada’s largest environmental law charity.
The event happens on Saturday, and runs from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
All proceeds of book sales at the event will go to the Roots Community Food Centre, a Thunder Bay charity.
