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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.
How about the right to cry for help?
The article, "How about the right to cry for help?" was written by Amy E. Hasbrouck, Chair of Not Dead Yet. The Montreal Gazette published the article under the heading: Court ruling asserting a person’s right to assisted suicide reflects discriminatory attitudes toward the disabled. In the article she states, "It's one thing when a random guy walks up to you on the street and says, 'I'd rather be dead than be like you.' It's quite another when a Canadian judge says of individuals who may experience such suffering (physical or existential), unrelievable by palliative care, 'that it is in their best interests to assist them in hastened death.' Same message, only the judge uses bigger workds." Read more.
Tracy Latimer
The Latimer Case
The Latimer case directly concerned the rights of persons with disabilities. Mr. Latimer's view was that a parent has the right to kill a child with a disability if that parent decides the child's quality of life no longer warrants its continuation. CCD explained to the court and to the public how that view threatens the lives of people with disabilities and is deeply offensive to fundamental constitutional values. Learn more.