UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Archives

April 5, 2013

Your Presence is requested at CASHRA2013.ca

Early bird registration ends April 18, so please register online at www.CASHRA2013.ca Read more.

May 12, 2008

Canadians with Disabilities Celebrate the Coming into Force of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

As twenty countries have ratified the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), it now has the force of international law. Steve Estey, the Chairperson of CCD's International Development Committee joined other colleagues from the global disability rights movement at a UN ceremony to promote greater societal awareness of the CRPD, which provides guidance to countries on how to ensure people with disabilities experience full enjoyment of their human rights. Read more.

February 20, 2007

Government of Canada Urged To Show Continued Leadership and Sign UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

May 27, 2006

Fourth National Consultation on the International Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities (ICRPD)

A summary of the proceedings at CCD's fourth Canadian consultation on the draft CRPD. Read more.

March 1, 2003

Towards a UN Disability Convention

January 31, 2003

CCD Calls for UN Convention on Rights of Persons with Disabilities

December 16, 2020

Disability Rights Online

You should check out the Disability Rights Online website.  This website connects visitors with self-paced online training on human rights, other resources and contact information for expert speakers on human rights. Read more.

November 6, 2020

Human Rights Training for People with Disabilities by People with Disabilities: Nothing about us without us!

The Project aims to raise awareness of Canadians with disabilities, particularly youth with disabilities and people from ethno-cultural communities, about available human rights remedies to discrimination and how to access those remedies.  Read more.

December 21, 2018

Open Letter: Recognizing Two Important Human Rights Milestones of 2018

The Council of Canadians with Disabilities (CCD) celebrates Canada’s accession to the Optional Protocol.  We recognize that accession reinforces the commitment that the Federal, Provincial and Territorial governments have made to ensuring that people with disabilities have full enjoyment of their human rights, as elaborated in the CRPD, which Canada ratified in 2010.  CCD called upon Canada to accede to the Optional Protocol because the mechanism strengthens the human rights protections that are available to people with disabilities in the CRPD, and we congratulate you on this important advance. Read more.

May 23, 2017

Review of Canada's Accession to the United Nations Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

In light of the importance that the CCD attaches to the OP we have taken the time to consult with a number of international law experts on the matter along with our own membership, and what follows is a synthesis of their views and our own, in a process that very much mirror’s the drafting of the treaty all those years ago.  Read more.

December 23, 2016

Canada to Ratify CRPD's Optional Protocol

Minister Qualtrough and Minister Dion announced that Canada would ratify the CRPD’s Optional Protocol in 2017.  Read more.

June 22, 2015

Advocate for Change: Disability/Deaf Issues and the Federal Election

I want to share some thoughts about political participation, to mention some key provisions of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), as well as relevant recommendations developed  by the Community University Research Alliance (CURA), a project led by CCD. Read more.

February 28, 2014

Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: First Report of Canada

Canada has submitted its first report on the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (Convention) to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Read more.

August 2, 2013

Vangelis Nikias: Welcome to My World

Vangelis Nikias discusses the value of the CRPD. Read more.

June 3, 2013

CASHRA 2013: Renewing the Vision

It is very pertinent that we have the opportunity to share our views in relation to certain critical aspects of CRPD in the 2013 Conference of the Canadian Association of Statutory Human Rights Agencies in Halifax.  Canadians with disabilities have endeavoured for many years to speak for ourselves, to improve our living conditions, to participate fully in all aspects of society.  We have increasingly done so as human rights holders, moving away from being cast in the role of charity cases.  In this effort, we have actively worked to strengthen the human rights movement.  We view, therefore, CASHRA as an indispensable ally. Read more.

May 8, 2013

Vangelis Nikias Discusses Disability Rights and The Conversation Between International Law and Domestic Law

March 27, 2013

How Can a Civil Society Shadow Report Improve Accountability?

On Thursday 14 February 2013, at the Munk School of Global Affairs, Steve Estey, Chair of CCD’s International Committee, participated in a panel presentation along with David Shannon (Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission) and Penny Hartin (World Blind Union).  Steve reviewed CCD’s recommendations to the Government of Canada regarding the CRPD. Read more.

March 22, 2013

CCD Panel Presentation at University of Ottawa Human Rights Centre

Without self-representative groups of persons with disabilities, our experience and our needs cannot be adequately and legitimately described, appropriate solutions cannot be developed, and difficult challenges cannot be taken up.   Read more.