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Zoryan's core concept:

Zoryan's core concept is to serve the cause of scholarship and public awareness relating to issues of universal human rights, genocide, and diaspora-homeland relations. This is done through the systematic continued efforts of independent scholars, and specialists using a comparative and multidisciplinary approach and in accordance with the highest academic standards.


Zoryan's Featured Activities

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Ragip Zarakolu, Human Rights Champion in Turkey, and Zoryan Institute Collaborate on Turkish Publication of German Foreign Office Archives

Toronto-Ragip Zarakolu, a publisher in Istanbul and a renowned champion of human rights, has collaborated with the Zoryan Institute to lay down one more building block on the foundation of a common body of knowledge for Turks and Armenians. Zarakolu, despite being in jail since October 2011 allegedly in connection with the Kurdistan Communities Union (KCK) trials, has not stopped his efforts to bring out the historical truth about the "events of 1915" and thereafter. Read More

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Noted Scholar Joyce Apsel Appointed Course Director of Zoryan's Genocide and Human Rights University Program

Toronto, Canada-Prof. Joyce Apsel has been appointed Course Director of the Genocide and Human Rights University Program by the Program Development Committee. The program is held annually in partnership by the International Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies (A Division of the Zoryan Institute) and the University of Toronto.

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How Will the Canadian Museum for Human Rights Represent Genocide?

The lack of responsiveness of the CMHR and the absence of information about how cases of the gross violation of human rights will be represented raise questions as to which cases will be included, how much space will be allotted to each case, what their content will be, if they will have a permanent or only temporary exhibit, and how these decisions are made.

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Genocide is not genocide in the Canadian Museum for Human Rights

An article titled, "Memory becomes a minefield at Canada's Museum for Human Rights," by Ira Basen in the August 20, 2011 issue of the Globe and Mail, provides an expose of the controversy surrounding the Canadian Museum for Human Rights. The appearance of this article calls for reflection on two critical factors regarding the museum, which have not been adequately discussed: the important relationship between human rights and genocide, and the requirement of federal institutions to adhere to Canada's official policy of multiculturalism...

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