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The National Day for Truth and Reconciliation (sometimes shortened to T&R Day) (NDTR; French: Journée nationale de la vérité et de la réconciliation), originally and still colloquially known as Orange Shirt Day (French: Jour du chandail orange), [1] is a Canadian day of memorial to recognize the atrocities and multi-generational effects of the Canadian Indian residential school system. [2]
Phyllis Webstad (née Jack; born July 13, 1967) is a Northern Secwepemc (Shuswap) author and activist from the Stswecem'c Xgat'tem First Nation, [note 1] and the creator of Orange Shirt Day, a day of remembrance marked in Canada later instated as the public holiday of National Day for Truth and Reconciliation.
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission is the first of its kind in the Pacific Islands region. [3] The purpose of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission is to "address people's traumatic experiences during the five-year ethnic conflict on Guadalcanal (1999–2003)". Its goal is to promote national unity and reconciliation.
In 2021, Finland established the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Concerning the Sámi People. [8] Gambia The Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission (TRRC) Act was enacted by the National Assembly in December 2017 [9] to investigate human rights violations during the period of Yahya Jammeh's rule. It was sworn in on October 15, 2018.
A world map showing all the truth and reconciliation commissions in Museum of Memory and Human Rights, Santiago, Chile. A truth commission, also known as a truth and reconciliation commission or truth and justice commission, is an official body tasked with discovering and revealing past wrongdoing by a government (or, depending on the circumstances, non-state actors also), in the hope of ...
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC) in its final report in 2015 use the specific term cultural genocide, when addressed the history of the Indigenous residential school system. [ 41 ] [ 42 ] [ 43 ] The TRC’s final report stated "cultural genocide is the destruction of those structures and practices that allow the group to ...
Trudeau announced on Monday that he will step down as leader of the Liberal Party and as prime minister once a successor has been chosen
The National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation (NCTR; French: Centre national pour la vérité et la réconciliation, CNVR [1]) is the archival repository for all of the material collected by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, purposed to compile the complete history and legacy of Canada's residential school system.