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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.
National Action Plan
Canadians with disabilities and their families have developed the National Action Plan on Disability as a road map to help policy makers, politicians and interested Canadians advance a national disability strategy.
Recent Work
October 7, 2009
National Action Plan Video
Jim Derksen presents the National Action Plan. Read more.
September 22, 2009
End Exclusion 2009 Agenda
Roundtable Dialogue “Disabling Poverty/Enabling Citizenship”
October 1, 2009
Ottawa City Hall Council Chambers
110 Laurier Avenue West
Objectives:
• To build solidarity within the disability community and with other anti-poverty groups.
• To highlight our shared priorities regarding Poverty Alleviation and inform key decision makers of our policy proposals.
• To build understanding of how a disability poverty alleviation agenda fits within broader anti-poverty proposals being advanced.
• To build on the success of End Exclusion 2006 and 2007.
July 14, 2008
Your Help Is Needed!
More on National Action Plan on Disability
June 1, 2008
Your Help Is Needed!
November 1, 2007
From Vision to Action: Building An Inclusive and Accessible Canada: A National Action Plan
January 1, 2007
Building an Inclusive and Accessible Canada: Supporting People with Disabilities
January 6, 2006
First Disability Strategy in Election 2006 on the Right Track
December 5, 2005
Creating an Inclusive and Accessible Canada: Developing A National Disability Agenda
October 1, 2005
Turning the Corner: Transformational Change on Disability
Michael Bach, CACL, and Laurie Beachell, CCD National Coordinator, share the National Action Plan with Finance Minister Flaherty.