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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.
Reports
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2024
May 22, 2024
Gender-based Analysis Plus Quick Resource Guide
2023
May 3, 2023
Weekly Email Digest for Information Sharing Purposes April 24 - April 28, 2023
2017
February 14, 2017
COLLABORATION: THE KEY TO ACCESS AND INCLUSION
2016
April 19, 2016
A Modernised Court Challenges Program of Canada: A perspective from the Council of Canadians with Disabilities
January 29, 2016
CCD Submission to Special Joint Committee on Physician Assisted Dying
2015
July 10, 2015
Options for a Refundable Disability Tax Credit for 'working age' persons
March 25, 2015
Review of Extra Costs Linked to Disability
2014
November 6, 2014
Making Poverty a Human Rights issue for People with Disabilities
September 17, 2014
Disabling Poverty, Enabling Citizenship: Recommendations for Positive Change
May 16, 2014
Research Report on the Québec Act to Combat Poverty and Social Exclusion, a Case of Democratic Co-construction of Public Policy
February 28, 2014
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: First Report of Canada
February 10, 2014
Getting and Keeping a Job - What makes a difference
2013
November 30, 2013
Looking Into Poverty: Income Sources of Poor People with Disabilities in Canada
August 19, 2013
What is Happening to Disability Income Systems in Canada?
March 12, 2013
People with Disabilities: Getting Beyond Being the Population in Waiting
January 30, 2013
Official Development Assistance to the World Bank
2012
November 18, 2012
The Moore Case: Summary of Key Points
November 5, 2012
Renewed Political Commitment and Leadership: An Imperative for the Realization of the Human Rights of Canadians with Disabilities
May 8, 2012
How the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) Might Be Used in Canadian Litigation
April 5, 2012
Accommodation in the 21st Century
2011
December 21, 2011
IN UNISON: A Canadian Approach to Disability Issues
December 18, 2011
Highlights of End Exclusion 2011
December 18, 2011
Key Messages from End Exclusion 2011 Round Tables
December 14, 2011
IN UNISON: A Canadian Approach to Disability Issues
November 11, 2011
Disability lens evaluation of four provincial poverty reduction strategies: Manitoba, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, and Nova Scotia
February 4, 2011
UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Making Domestic Implementation Real and Meaningful
2010
October 25, 2010
A Basic Income Plan for Canadians with Severe Disabilities
September 21, 2010
Report of the Council of Canadians with Disabilities Human Rights Committee's Litigation: 2009-2010
August 16, 2010
The Québec Act to Combat Poverty and Social Exclusion: How Does it Tackle the Situation of People with Disabilities?
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 30, 2010
Disabling Poverty and Enabling Citizenship: Understanding the Poverty and Exclusion of Canadians with Disabilities
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
June 15, 2010
Canadians with Disabilities--We Are Not Dead Yet*
March 4, 2010
BOLD FEASIBILITIES: A NEW POLICY SOCIAL ARCHITECTURE FOR CANADIANS WITH DISABILITIES
February 22, 2010
Covarrubias v. Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration) 2006 FCA 365 (F.C.A.)
February 22, 2010
Canada (Citizenship and Immigration) v. Colaco, 2007 FCA 282
February 22, 2010
Lee v. Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration), [2006] F.C.J. No. 1841
February 22, 2010
Hilewitz v. Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration); De Jong v. Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration), 2005 SCC 57
February 22, 2010
Disability & Immigration Law in the United States of America
February 22, 2010
Disability & Immigration Law in Australia
February 22, 2010
Disability & Immigration Law in the United Kingdom
2009
September 1, 2009
Pre Budget Consultation Brief Submission
August 19, 2009
Review of the Internet Traffic Management Practice of Internet Service Providers
July 24, 2009
BOLD FEASIBILITIES: A NEW POLICY SOCIAL ARCHITECTURE FOR CANADIANS WITH DISABILITIES
March 16, 2009
Disability, Poverty and Citizenship: A Short Note
2008
September 8, 2008
A Disability Rights Analysis of Canada's Record Regarding the Human Rights of Persons with Disabilities: A Submission by CCD to the Human Rights Council in Relation to the 2009 Periodic Review of Canada
August 29, 2008
Council of Canadians with Disabilities Submission to the Canada Post Corporation Strategic Review
August 1, 2008
Immigration and Disability: Stephen Hawking Could Never Become a Canadian
July 24, 2008
Council of Canadians with Disabilities Preliminary Submission to CRTC Re: Unresolved issues related to the accessibility of telecommunications and broadcasting services for persons with disabilities, Broadcasting Notice of Public Hearing CRTC 2008-8 and T
June 1, 2008
CCD Annual Report 2007-08
June 1, 2008
Council of Canadians with Disabilities (CCD) Proposals Re: Expansion and Renewal of the Social Development Partnership Fund
January 24, 2008
Proposal for A Refundable Disability Tax Credit
2007
November 1, 2007
The Canadian Human Rights Commission Strives to Design a New Business Model: What Does This Mean for Persons with Disabilities?
November 1, 2007
From Vision to Action: Building An Inclusive and Accessible Canada: A National Action Plan
2006
October 1, 2006
A Federal Disability Act: Opportunities and Challenges
May 27, 2006
Fourth National Consultation on the International Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities (ICRPD)
2005
March 19, 2005
Final Report: United Nations effort to elaborate a comprehensive and integral international convention on the protection and promotion of the rights and dignity of persons with disabilities
February 1, 2005
Moving Backwards: Canada's State of Transportation Accessibility in an International Context
February 1, 2005
A National Snapshot of Home Support from the Consumer Perspective
January 1, 2005
Canada and the Global Landmine Crisis: Update
2004
March 1, 2004
Final Report: Community Consultation on the United Nations effort to elaborate a Comprehensive and Integral International Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities
January 26, 2004
Twenty Years of Litigating for Disability Equality Rights: Has it Made a Difference?
2003
June 15, 2003
Advancing the Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities: A Critical Analysis and Recommendations
January 1, 2003
Legalizing Physician-Assisted Death: Can Safeguards Protect the Interests of Vulnerable Persons?
January 1, 2003