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CCD Dismayed Family with a Disabled Child Ordered Deported
April 13, 2011
Green Party Includes People with Disabilities in Vision Green but NOT the Green Platform
2011 CCD Election Challenge
2011 Green Platform
smart economy. strong communities. true democracy.
7 April 2011
The Liberal Platform--Your Family. Your Future. Your Canada.
2011 CCD Election Challenge
4 April 2011
Liberal Platform Puts Disability Issues on the Agenda, CCD Challenges Others To Do The Same
4 April 2011--The Council of Canadians with Disabilities (CCD), a national disability organization working for an inclusive and accessible Canada, welcomed the Liberal Platform’s twin-track approach to disability issues, featuring (1) specific disability initiatives and (2) an attentiveness to the concerns of Canadians with disabilities reflected in major initiatives for all Canadians.
Timeline of Major Milestones in International Disability Policy
Moving from the Charity Model to the Human Rights Paradigm
The Role Played by Canada and Canadians with Disabilities
1948—The United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). John P. Humphrey, a Canadian with a disability, headed the Human Rights Secretariat at the UN and played a pivotal role in the drafting of the UDHR. The Declaration and subsequent thematic human rights conventions applied to people with disabilities.
Disability Community Priorities and Expectations
Presentation by Jim Derksen to P/T Minister Meeting re CRPD
The Road to the UN Convention
Mr. Steve Estey, Former Human Rights Officer, Disabled Peoples' International
In this presentation I will focus on the events that led up to the ratification of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). I was involved, with other representatives of the worldwide disability community, in the drafting of the treaty from 2002 to 2006, over the course of nine or ten meetings at the U.N. in New York and at regional meetings around the world. “Nothing about us without us” is our prevailing motto.
What to Ask Federal Election Candidates about the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons With Disabilities (CRPD)
Short Term
Will Your Party:
Commit to delivering on the intent of CRPD by:
1. Designing a National Action Plan to provide the vision and framework for successful implementation of the CRPD? An action plan would identify necessary mechanisms for collaboration, benchmarks for monitoring and reporting, and strategies for priority areas for action the disability community has identified, including:
What To Ask Federal Election Candidates about Access and Inclusion
Will Your Party support:
- Accessibility regulations, instead of voluntary codes, for modes of transport in Federal jurisdiction?
- An accessible technology procurement policy?
- The renewal and expansion of the Social Development Partnerships Disability Program?
- The re-establishment of the Court Challenges Program for equality rights test case litigation?
- Amendment of the National Building Code to include Universal Design?
- Accessible voting, including independent voting and verification for persons handica
