Disability Law Primer (PDF) - ARCH Disability Law Centre

respondent argued that a systemic remedy was not needed, since under the AODA it was required to ensure that its stores were acc ...

Rights Tribunal of Ontario found that at the time of the hearing the Town had not fully accommodated people with hearing loss in ...

Services regarding whether a physical barrier should be erected in ODSP offices to prevent contact between ODSP workers and reci ...

Chapter 10 United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: A Primer Ivana Petricone, Executive Director, A ...

TABLE OF CONTENTS I. History and Introduction .................................................................................. ...

I. History and Introduction The United Nations General Assembly adopted the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilitie ...

universally applied to all people; some groups have been less of a priority for governments in the enforcement of their rights o ...

and girls with disabilities were beaten at home, 25% of women with intellectual disabilities had been raped, and six percent of ...

draft Convention and was comprised of representatives from government and civil society participating together equally and witho ...

The CRPD is accompanied by an Optional Protocol, which establishes the competence of the Committee on the Rights of Persons with ...

The central element of inclusiveness in the community accepts the tenet that segregation and institutionalization are not normal ...

Universal design reflects a focus on ensuring that the environment is equally available, appealing and useful to a diverse popul ...

IV. Articles The CRPD is a lengthy convention with over thirty substantive articles, including monitoring mechanisms at both the ...

V. Canada’s Role in Creating the CRPD Canada became a Member State of the United Nations on November 9, 1945.^41 Since then, Can ...

Throughout the elaboration and ratification stages, the Canadian government was dedicated to communicating and collaborating wit ...

Domestically, it is also the first time Canada has signed a UN Convention on its opening day.^52 Such gestures demonstrate Canad ...

The General Principles of the Convention set out in Article 3 apply to all articles in Convention. These principles are particul ...

Article 4 sets out State Party obligations, instructs States Parties to adopt all appropriate legislative, administrative and ot ...

promote, protect and monitor the implementation.^70 It is essential that people with disabilities and all consumers are involved ...

To date, this is the approach that Canadian courts and tribunals have taken with respect to the CRPD. For example, the Ontario S ...