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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.
Social Policy
14.3% of Canadians report having a disability. Canadians with disabilities are more than twice as likely to live in poverty than other Canadians. They face exclusion from quality education, from employment and from participation in their communities. CCD's Social Policy Committee provides leadership on addressing the social and economic exclusion of persons with disabilities.
Recent Work
September 22, 2023
Weekly Email Digest for Information Sharing Purposes September 1-22 2023
News from the disability community. Read more.
September 19, 2023
Steven Brien Estey, age 60, of Dartmouth Nova Scotia, passed away at the Dartmouth General Hospital on Monday, September 11th, 2023
Steve took on central roles at the Council of Canadians with Disabilities and Disabled Peoples’ International, a Canadian based NGO. Read more.
August 25, 2023
Weekly Email Digest for Information Sharing Purposes August 21 - 25, 2023
News from the disability community. Read more.
More on Social Policy
August 22, 2023
Weekly Email Digest for Information Sharing Purposes August 14 - 18, 2023
August 22, 2023
Weekly Email Digest for Information Sharing Purposes August 7 - 11, 2023
August 8, 2023
Increasing Economic Integration for Canadians With Disabilities
August 4, 2023
Weekly Email Digest for Information Sharing Purposes July 31 - August 4, 2023
August 1, 2023
Weekly Email Digest for Information Sharing Purposes July 18 - July 28, 2023
July 28, 2023
Reporting the sudden passing of Margot Brunner, Executive Director of Voice of Albertans with Disabilities and beloved CCD Council Member
End Exclusion supporters rally in support of an accessible and inclusive Canada.
November 1, 2007
From Vision to Action: Building An Inclusive and Accessible Canada: A National Action Plan
The National Action Plan presents a shared vision for an inclusive and accessible Canada. Read more.