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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.
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Recent Work
November 6, 2014
Making Poverty a Human Rights issue for People with Disabilities
This paper argues that the poverty experienced by people with disabilities must be regarded as more than a social policy issue. The fulfillment of true equality and human rights recognition for people with disabilities demands that economic barriers be regarded as equally pernicious as those that impede access. Read more.
May 8, 2012
How the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) Might Be Used in Canadian Litigation
This paper examines the intersection between the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (“CRPD”) and Canadian litigation. Read more.
April 5, 2012
Accommodation in the 21st Century
More on Legal Protections
July 8, 2010
Canadian Legal Literature Addressing Social and Economic Rights of People with Disabilities: An Annotated Bibliography
June 30, 2010
How Human Rights Legislation is Dealing with Serious Disabilities that Tend to Result in Social Judgment and Social Exclusion
June 30, 2010
Overview of Complaints under Human Rights Legislation Regarding Access to Services for Persons with Disabilities
June 30, 2010
An Overview of the Duty To Accommodate and Undue Hardship in Human Rights Jurisprudence
June 29, 2010
An Overview of the Comparator Group Analysis in Human Rights Jurisprudence
June 29, 2010
An Overview of the Human Rights Jurisprudence Underpinning the Test for Prima Facie Discrimination
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