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Empower U: Learn to Access Your Disability Rights Training on Canadian Human Rights, the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) and its Optional Protocol (OP) training aims to increase awareness of how to address discrimination using more familiar Canadian human rights laws such as Human Rights Codes and the newer international Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). This is training for persons with disabilities by persons with disabilities. The training is part of a project funded by Employment and Social Development Canada and implemented by the Council of Canadians with Disabilities (CCD) in collaboration with Canadian Multicultural Disability Centre Inc. (CMDCI), Citizens With Disabilities – Ontario (CWDO), Manitoba League of Persons with Disabilities (MLPD) and National Educational Association of Disabled Students (NEADS). Read more.
Strategies for Competent and Ethical Disability Law Advocacy
Register now for this event on November 30th 2016 in Ottawa.
The 2nd annual CCD conference will discuss service, case management, and client guidance involving disability claims and clients who have disabilities. We will discuss the need to respect diversity when dealing with disability law cases. We will also discuss the access to justice issues that arise for people with visible and invisible disabilities. We will consider how counsel can effectively respond to the needs and interests of clients with disabilities.
Featured panel speakers will include Ms. Morgan Rowe, Ms. Helen Ries, Dr. Jihan Abbas, and Mr. Charles Ng.