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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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Access/Inclusion
People with disabilities are moving toward equality. Evidence of this progress is apparent in the community: pay phones equipped with TTYs, audible traffic signals, tactile cues on streets, ramps, curb cuts, Braille elevator buttons. CCD has helped bring about these changes.
Through CCD, people with disabilities advise, critique, intervene, liaise and partner to improve access and inclusion in Canada.
A 2004 Environics poll demonstrated that Canadian citizens support inclusion and access for persons with disabilities.
CCD has been sharing its vision of how to achieve an accessible and inclusive Canada with private and public decision-makers responsible for the key systems of society, such as the physical and cultural environment, transportation, income and benefits, employment, health and social services.
Recent Work
December 10, 2023
Weekly Email Digest for Information Sharing Purposes December 4 - December 8, 2023
News from the disability community. Read more.
December 6, 2023
Nearly 3 in 10 Canadians have at least one disability: StatCan
Heather Walkus, CCD Chairperson, shares comments about Statistics Canada's recent data release on disability. Read more.
December 3, 2023
Weekly Email Digest for Information Sharing Purposes November 18 - December 1, 2023
News from the disability community. Read more.
More on Access/Inclusion
November 17, 2023
Weekly Email Digest for Information Sharing Purposes November 14 - November 17, 2023
November 13, 2023
Weekly Email Digest for Information Sharing Purposes November 4 - November 13, 2023
November 6, 2023
Weekly Email Digest for Information Sharing Purposes October 30 - November 3, 2023
October 30, 2023
Weekly Email Digest for Information Sharing Purposes October 13, 2023
October 30, 2023
Weekly Email Digest for Information Sharing Purposes September 25 - October 13, 2023
October 30, 2023
Weekly Email Digest for Information Sharing Purposes October 20 - October 27, 2023

End Exclusion supporters rally in support of an accessible and inclusive Canada.