United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Archives

Media Release – COVID-19 response needs to be approached with a disability lens

March 22, 2020

Press release: The Council of Canadians with Disabilities reminds all levels of government, community organizations and businesses responding to the COVID-19 crisis that all planning needs to be done using a human and disability rights lens.

Letter: UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities – Nova Scotia’s midterm grade

May 6, 2019

“It’s a good thing this is a practice exam, otherwise Canada would get an F.” Warren (Gus) Reed writes on the interim report by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the status of persons with disabilities in Nova Scotia.