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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.
Landmines
Disability is one of the intended results of a military campaign using landmines, because disabling people puts more stress on a nation than killing people. Landmines cause countless death, disability, disease, and displacements. Appalled by the human and socio-economic impact of landmines, the international community of persons with disabilities joined the campaign to ban landmines.
In 1996, then Foreign Affairs Minister, the Hon. Lloyd Axworthy began the Ottawa Process to create an international treaty banning landmines. CCD's International Development Committee played an integral part in the Foreign Affairs conference on landmines, which was held in Winnipeg on January 31, 1997. The Hon. Lloyd Axworthy invited Henry Enns, a past Chair of the CCD International Development Committee, to be the Chairperson for the conference session on survivors' issues. Irene Feika and Steve Estey, CCD International Development Committee volunteers, also addressed the conference. CCD's objective was to ensure that the needs of landmine survivors, people with disabilities, became a central focus in all work on landmines.
CCD is a member of Mines Action Canada.
Recent Work
January 1, 2005
Canada and the Global Landmine Crisis: Update
January 1, 2005
The Landmine Crisis: Designed to kill and injure, to impede
Canada signs the Declaration on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities at the United Nations. Members of the Canadian Delegation Steve Estey, Chair of CCD’s International Committee, and Dulcie McCallum observe Canada’s ambassador make this historic commitment.
HRSDC Minister Diane Finley, Defense Minister Peter MacKay, NDP Disability Critic Judy Wasylycia-Leis, Liberal MP Mike Savage, Liberal MP the Hon. Carolyn Bennett and Bloc MP Yves Lessard joined leaders from the disability community at a CCD celebration of Canada's ratification of the CRPD.