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GATINEAU, QC, June 14, 2022
GATINEAU, QC, June 14, 2022 /CNW/ – Employment and Social Growth Canada
For the primary time in two years, international locations from world wide have gathered on the United Nations Headquarters, in New York Metropolis, for in-person formal conferences focussed on “Constructing disability-inclusive and participatory societies within the COVID context and past.” Main Canada’s delegation on the fifteenth Convention of States Events (COSP) to the United Nations (UN) Conference on the Rights of Individuals with Disabilities (CRPD), is Minister of Employment, Workforce Growth and Incapacity Inclusion, Carla Qualtrough.
In addressing the Convention, Minister Qualtrough highlighted Canada’s ongoing work to develop into a rustic, and to assist create a world, the place individuals with disabilities can take part in each side of society. Central to this work is Canada’s dedication to uphold its obligations beneath the CRPD and highlighted ongoing efforts to help individuals with disabilities. The Minister outlined work underway to create the Canada Incapacity Profit, which might cut back poverty, strengthen monetary safety, and assist a whole bunch of 1000’s of individuals with disabilities. The Minister additionally pointed to current actions supporting the implementation of the Accessible Canada Act, together with the appointments of Canada’s first Accessibility Commissioner and Chief Accessibility Officer, and the discharge of the primary laws beneath the Act.
This 12 months, Canada’s UN COSP delegation consists of three youth members of the incapacity group: Zoe Elverum, Carly Fox, and Paula MacDonald. By participating within the Convention, they’re contributing to the momentum of constructing youth management throughout the incapacity group to assist advance accessibility, incapacity inclusion and the rights of individuals with disabilities. In a Convention facet occasion, hosted nearly on June thirteenth by Minister Qualtrough and accomplice international locations, Canada’s youth delegates participated in a panel dialogue titled “Youth management and views: advancing incapacity inclusion and the rights of individuals with disabilities.”
This 12 months Canada put ahead its first-ever candidate for election to the UN Committee on the Rights of Individuals with Disabilities. Via an open and clear choice course of, Canada obtained a number of extremely certified nominations and Dr. Laverne Jacobs, an achieved educational with important expertise in human rights and incapacity points, was chosen because the nation’s candidate. Dr. Jacobs has been elected to the Committee and can be a part of eight different newly-elected members to serve a four-year time period.
Whereas on the Convention, the Minister met together with her worldwide counterparts and a number of other key officers, together with the Worldwide Incapacity Alliance and UN Particular Rapporteur on the rights of individuals with disabilities, Gerard Quinn. The Convention supplied a possibility for the Canadian delegation to be taught from the experiences of different international locations, specifically associated to the pandemic and ongoing restoration, and to reaffirm the Authorities’s dedication to the total inclusion of individuals with disabilities.
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“Canada is working to develop into a rustic, and to assist create a world, the place individuals with disabilities are included in each side of society. On the core of this work is implementing the United Nations Conference on the Rights of Individuals with Disabilities. This dedication connects Canada to the worldwide group with the chance to each lead and be taught from different nations as we work towards the shared objective of actual, significant incapacity inclusion.”
– Minister of Employment, Workforce Growth and Incapacity Inclusion, Carla Qualtrough
“”Human rights are on the core of Canada’s international coverage. We’re happy to help the rights of individuals with disabilities, in addition to the worldwide human rights structure, by nominating Canada’s first-ever candidate for the UN Committee on the Rights of Individuals with Disabilities.”
– Minister of International Affairs, Mélanie Joly
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This 12 months marks the fifteenth session of the Convention of States Events to the United Nations Conference on the Rights of Individuals with Disabilities. The Convention runs from June 14 to 16, 2022.
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Whereas on the Convention, the Minister additionally delivered Canada’s intervention at a spherical desk dialogue on the financial empowerment and entrepreneurship of individuals with disabilities.
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The CRPD Committee is a physique of 18 unbiased consultants that screens the implementation of the CRPD. Members are elected for a four-year time period, with the opportunity of being re-elected as soon as. Elections happen by secret poll each two years to exchange members whose phrases are expiring.
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