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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]
Holodomor Memorial Day or Holodomor Remembrance Day (Ukrainian: День пам'яті жертв голодоморів, romanized: Den pamiati zhertv holodomoriv, lit. 'Day of memory for victims of the holodomors') is an annual commemoration of the victims of the Holodomor , the 1932–33 man-made famine that killed millions in Ukraine ...
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 ...
This Act may be cited as the Ukrainian Famine and Genocide ("Holodomor") Memorial Day Act. 2. Throughout Canada, in each and every year, the fourth Saturday in November shall be known as "Ukrainian Famine and Genocide ("Holodomor") Memorial Day". Canada has also signed all four of the joint declarations by delegations at the United Nations ...
Pope Francis said on Saturday that what happened at residential schools that the Roman Catholic and other Christian Churches ran to forcefully assimilate Canada's indigenous children was genocide.
The 1948 Genocide Convention defines genocide as crimes committed "with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such."
Memorial in Manitoba Legislative Building, Winnipeg, Manitoba [3] Monument in Memorial Drive, Calgary, Alberta [4] Monument in City Hall, Edmonton, Alberta (first in the world, established in 1983) [5] Memorial in Wascana Park, Regina, Saskatchewan [6] Memorial in Dormition of the Mother of God Ukrainian Catholic Church, Mississauga, Ontario [7]
A unanimous motion was passed in Canada's House of Commons to have the federal government recognize residential schools as genocide. 'Genocide' label for residential schools sparks applause, calls ...