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C A N A D A | W I N N I P E G 4 2 1 of Hope” in the centre, the facility houses 13 multimedia exhibition galleries dedicated to various modules covering the complex issue of human rights. A ramp made of Spanish ala- baster and illuminated from the inside extends across the nine floors of the museum. The ex­ hibition focuses mainly on Canadian society. Accordingly, various perspectives of indigenous peoples on human rights are discussed along- side testimonies bearing witness to violations of ethnic rights throughout the history of the country. Also subjected to critical examination are the position of human rights in Canadian society and the various measures taken to safeguard these fundamental values. Canada’s influential community of Ukrain­ ians in exile also participated in the long-run- ning public discussion of how the museum should be conceived and succeeded in ensur- ing that the Holodomor—the catastrophic famine of 1932 /33 in Ukraine—was recognised as a genocide and featured in the museum alongside the genocide of the Armenians at the beginning of the 20 th century, the genocide in Rwanda in 1994, the massacre in Srebrenica in 1995 and the Holocaust. Location: Winnipeg, 85 Israel Asper Way Winnipeg. On 19 September 2014, the Canadian Museum for Human Rights opened at the con- fluence of the Red and Assiniboine Rivers in the capital of the Canadian province of Manitoba. It is the first national museum to have been built since 1967 and the only institution of its kind in Canada outside the capital, Ottawa. The idea for the project came from Izzy Asper, the founder of one of Canada’s largest media companies, who played a major role in financ- ing the museum. Constructed as a hemisphere consisting of five superimposed arches with glass panels and a 100-metre-high “Tower Canadian Museum for Human Rights Canadian Museum for Human Rights