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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.
CCD Chairperson's Update - Get Ready to Vote
The Council of Canadians with Disabilities is helping Elections Canada (EC) inform Canadians about how to get ready to vote. EC's Spring e-bulletin updates Canadians about:
- EC's accessibility services
- Registering to vote
- How to prove your identity and address at the poll
Connect with EC through YouTube and Twitter.
Of particular interest to Deaf Canadians will be EC's YouTube videos Getting ready to vote (ASL) and What happens when I go to vote (ASL).
In the coming weeks, CCD will be sharing additional information from EC, so that people with disabilities will be aware of all of the ways that people with disabilities can participate in the 2015 Federal Election.