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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
March 8, 2024
Too many women still left behind this International Women's Day
"One in three women in Canada still grapples with violence and poverty, underscoring the urgent need for renewed action on this day of celebration.Canada passed the Accessible Canada Act in 2019, with a preamble that notably cautioned against intersecting discrimination. Yet, a year into the provincial and territorial rollout of a National Action Plan to End Gender-Based Violence, the distinct threat to women with disabilities persists without substantial redress, even as they now constitute a significant portion of the population." ~ Bonnie Brayton Read more.
March 8, 2024
Weekly Email Digest for Information Sharing Purposes March 4 - March 8, 2024
News from the disability community. Read more.
March 4, 2024
Weekly Email Digest for Information Sharing Purposes February 26 - March 4, 2024
News from the disability community Read more.
More on Access/Inclusion
February 26, 2024
Weekly Email Digest for Information Sharing Purposes February 19 - February 26, 2024
February 16, 2024
Weekly Email Digest for Information Sharing Purposes February 12 - February 16, 2024
February 12, 2024
Have Your Say on Community-Based Research
February 12, 2024
Weekly Email Digest for Information Sharing Purposes February 5 - February 9, 2024
February 5, 2024
Weekly Email Digest for Information Sharing Purposes January 22 - February 2, 2024
January 22, 2024
Weekly Email Digest for Information Sharing Purposes January 15 - January 19, 2024
End Exclusion supporters rally in support of an accessible and inclusive Canada.