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CCD Chairperson's Update: March 2011
Below you will find the key events that were on CCD’s calendar for the month of March.
2 March–Theme 2 of the CURA project, led by Michael Prince and Michael Bach, met in Toronto to draft its work plan for the current year.
Gender, Disability and Low Income
Background
Community Expectations: Compliance and Progressive Realization
Speaking Notes
Prepared by Vangelis Nikias
Council of Canadians with Disabilities
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Manager
Canadian Government Conference on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Victoria Hall
111 Sussex Drive (Old City Hall)
Ottawa, Ontario
March 23, 2011
1. Introduction
I would like to start by congratulating the organizers of this conference and thank them for the invitation to the community panel.
Reducing Poverty and Promoting Social Participation?
Benefits and Limitations of Measures for the Activation of Employment and Occupational Integration Services for People with Disabilities in Québec
Study Conducted for the Community-University Research Alliances 'Disabling Poverty and Enabling Citizenship'
By Léonie Archambault
Directed by Lucie Dumais and Yves Vaillancourt
February 15, 2011
Monitoring of the CRPD
That the Canadian Human Rights Commission (CHRC) be appropriately resourced and named as the lead monitoring body in Canada for the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD); and that the CHRC carry out this function in partnership with other provincial/territorial human rights commissions; and that the CHRC develop an appropriate engagement strategy with organizations representing persons with disabilities as partners in the monitoring process; and that the CHRC appoint a Disability Commissioner to oversee the CRPD monitoring work.
