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Monument in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. First in the world, established in 1983. First in the world, established in 1983. This is a list of memorials and monuments to the Holodomor and its millions of victims.
On June 3, 2019, Luis Almagro, secretary-general of Organization of American States (OAS), asked Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland to support the creation of an independent probe into the MMIWG allegation of Canadian 'genocide' since Canada had previously supported "probes of atrocities in other countries" such as Nicaragua in 2018. [160]
As of June 2021, the government of Canada officially recognises eight 20th and 21st Century historical events of ethnic extermination, agrarian reform or forced cultural assimilation that took place beyond its borders as genocide: the Armenian genocide (1915–1917), the Holodomor (1932–1933), the Holocaust (1941-1945), the Rwandan genocide (1994), the Srebrenica massacre (1995), the ...
It also commemorates the Roma Genocide and International Holocaust Remembrance Day. The Roma Genocide commemoration was first held in 2016 in partnership with Romanipe, a local non-profit that combats prejudice against Roma and advocates for Canada to recognize the Genocide of Roma and Sinti. [20]
The International Holocaust Remembrance Day, or the International Day in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust, is an international memorial day on 27 January that commemorates the victims of the Holocaust, which resulted in the genocide of one-third of the Jewish people along with countless numbers of individuals of other minority groups, by ...
United Nations General Assembly Resolution 78/282 is a resolution adopted by the seventy-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly on May 23, 2024, designating July 11 as the International Day of Reflection and Commemoration of the 1995 Genocide in Srebrenica.
The Senate unanimously adopted a motion on the recognition of the Holodomor as a "Famine-Genocide" in 2003, [66] for Canada "to condemn any attempt to deny or distort this historical truth as anything less than a genocide", [h] and called for a day of remembrance for "those that perished during the time of the Ukrainian Famine Genocide" to be ...
On April 24, 2015, on the 100th anniversary of the Armenian genocide, the House of Commons of Canada unanimously passed a resolution that designated the month of April as Genocide Remembrance, Condemnation and Prevention Month and April 24 as Armenian Genocide Memorial Day. The parliament also reaffirmed its support for the Armenian genocide ...