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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.
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Social Policy
14.3% of Canadians report having a disability. Canadians with disabilities are more than twice as likely to live in poverty than other Canadians. They face exclusion from quality education, from employment and from participation in their communities. CCD's Social Policy Committee provides leadership on addressing the social and economic exclusion of persons with disabilities.
Recent Work
May 24, 2023
Weekly Email Digest for Information Sharing Purposes May 15 - May 19, 2023
News from the disability community. Read more.
May 16, 2023
Weekly Email Digest for Information Sharing Purposes May 8 to May 12 2023
News for the disability community. Read more.
May 3, 2023
Weekly Email Digest for Information Sharing Purposes April 24 - April 28, 2023
News from the disability community. Read more.
More on Social Policy
December 22, 2022
Seasonal Greetings
November 14, 2022
DISABILITY COMMUNITY-INFORMED REGULATION AND IMPLEMNTATION OF THE CANADA DISABILITY BENEFIT
December 18, 2021
Season's Greetings and Happy New Year!
December 14, 2021
CCD: Rebuilding Our Capacity to Be a Voice for Disability Rights
November 26, 2021
Council of Canadians with Disabilities Welcomes New Member-at-Large
November 25, 2021
Council of Canadians with Disabilities Announces Departure of Chair

End Exclusion supporters rally in support of an accessible and inclusive Canada.
November 1, 2007
From Vision to Action: Building An Inclusive and Accessible Canada: A National Action Plan
The National Action Plan presents a shared vision for an inclusive and accessible Canada. Read more.