Empower U: Learn to Access Your Disability Rights
Training on Canadian Human Rights, the Convention on the Rights of Person with Disabilities (CRPD) and its Optional Protocol (OP)
About this Training
This 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 the training for persons with disabilities by persons with disabilities.
Don’t miss out! This is the only in-person training opportunity in Ontario offered through this project. There will be future opportunities to access the training online. Details will be announced soon.
Date: Friday, November 1st at 9:00 am to 5:00 pm
Location: ARCH Disability Law Centre, 55 University Avenue, 15th Floor, Room C, Toronto, ON
Registration: Register for the Human Rights Training on the NEADS website’s accessible form
What will I learn?
The project aims to raise awareness of Canadians with disabilities, particularly youth with disabilities and people from ethno-cultural communities, about available human rights remedies to discrimination and how to access those remedies. At the end of the training you will have:
- Knowledge of how to use the United Nations CRPD and the Optional Protocol, as well as Human Rights Codes and the Accessible Canada Act
- Understanding the systems where Canadians with disabilities can seek redress for discrimination
- Ability to access and navigate the system to redress for discrimination
Who should attend?
This workshop is for people with disabilities, allies, human rights activists, community change-makers, students concerned with social justice, disability support workers.
Read the CCD’s News Release: Human Rights Training for People with Disabilities by People with Disabilities: Nothing about us without us!
Sponsors
The Toronto session is co-presented by the Council of Canadians with Disabilities and the Canadian Association of Deaf.
The training is part of the project funded by the 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).