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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.
Demographic Profile
Recent Work
December 10, 2014
Understanding the Poverty and Exclusion of Canadians with Disabilities
Cam Crawford explained the socio-demographic characteristics of Canadians with disabilities who live in poverty at CCD's Disabling Poverty/Enabling Citizenship Forum on 2 December 2014 in Ottawa. Read more.
November 30, 2013
Looking Into Poverty: Income Sources of Poor People with Disabilities in Canada
This report provides a statistical look at the personal income sources of people with disabilities who live in low income households in Canada. These are people who live in "straightened circumstances," are sometimes referred to as living below the "poverty line" and are here referred to as "poor" or as having "low income." Read more.
November 1, 2011
Gender, Disability and Low Income
This fact sheet compares the rates at which men and women with and without disabilities experience low incomes. Read more.
More on Demographic Profile
November 1, 2011
Trying to 'Make the Grade': Education, Work-Related Training
November 1, 2011
From Coast to Coast: Provincial Rates of Low-Income among Canadians With and Without Disabilities
June 22, 2011
On the Home Front: Poverty, Disability, Housing and Help with Everyday Activities
June 22, 2011
Low Household Income and Disability: Income Sources, Employment and Employment Discrimination
June 22, 2011
Personally Speaking: Poverty and Disability in Canada
June 30, 2010