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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.
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Join us for 2 days of education and networking with Canada’s foremost Human Rights educators.
Highlights include:
- George Elliott Clarke at the Welcome Reception
- Cops & Customers: Consumer Racial Profiling
- Truth & Reconciliation
- Chief Wilton Littlechild
- Human Rights Art Exposition Awards and Reception
- The Moore Case
- The 2013 Legal Update
- Youth Empowering Change
- The Power of Intergovernmental Relations
- Assembling the Pieces
- Reaching the Media: Messages that Count
- Bringing Human Rights to the Public: Education Campaigns that Work
- Youth Empowering Change
Please visit www.CASHRA2013.ca for all the conference details.
Sincerely;
The Canadian Association of Statutory Human Rights Agencies

Canadian Foreign Minister Lawrence Cannon, far left, observes as U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, second from left, meets members of the Canadian delegation including Steven Estey, center, with the Council of Canadians with Disabilities; Traci Walters, second from right, with Independent Living Canada; and the Canadian Association for Community Living President Bendina Miller, far right, at the United Nations in New York, Thursday March 11, 2010. Canada ratified the U.N. Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, a historic first international treaty that comprehensively recognizes the rights of persons with disabilities. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)