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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.
"What Should Canada's Promised National Accessibility Law Include?"
August 22, 2017 - Join us for a first-ever online disability expert conference: “What Should Canada's Promised National Accessibility Law Include?” convened by the Alliance for an Inclusive and Accessible Canada.*
The conference will be chaired by David Lepofsky, who is a renowned lawyer, disability rights advo-cate/community organizer, and will be attended by Canada's first Minister Responsible for People with Disabilities, the Honourable Carla Qualtrough, as well as an amazing array of experts speaking to us from Canada, the U.S. Israel and Switzerland.
The conference will be live streamed from OCAD University on August 22, 2017 from 10:00 am until 1:00 pm EDT: http://alliance-canada.org/en/expert-conference.
Questions for panel members can be submitted ahead of time by emailing dave@ccdonline.ca.
Join us in a critical conversation about what Canada’s new accessibility law should include. Hear from experts from around the world how we can make Canada accessible!
**ASL and CART services will be provided on the live stream.**
Simultaneous French/English interpretation will not be provided at this event.
* If you missed the live streaming of the Alliance’s Disability Expert Conference “What Should Canada’s Promised National Accessibility Law Include? Cutting-edge Ideas from Experts from Around the World”, it is available on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8_D5M4pvdY&feature=youtu.be