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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.
Disability Without Poverty | Join Us December 3rd 2025 - Virtual National Symposium on Disability & Poverty
Good evening, Friends, Allies, and Advocates,
I am reaching out to personally invite you to our first national virtual symposium on disability poverty, taking place on December 3rd, 2025, on the International Day of Persons with Disabilities (IDPD).
At this landmark event, we will also release our third annual Disability & Poverty Report Card.
The program will include remarks from officials and leaders, panels with academics and community researchers, and presentations from individuals with lived experience.
Together, we will reflect, learn, and chart a path toward a more inclusive and equitable future. Click here to learn more about this virtual event and register today.
We hope you will join us for this inspiring event.
Warm regards,
Rabia Khedr, MA (she/her)
National Director
Disability Without Poverty/Le handicap sans pauvreté
disabilitywithoutpoverty.ca
We want people living with disabilities to be prosperous,
Realize our power,
Pursue our passions,
Participate in every aspect of society.
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