Canada Tracks Disability Rights: A DRPI Model of Systemic Monitoring

Authors

Roxanne Mykitiuk, Osgoode Hall Law School of York UniversityFollow
Yvonne Peters

Document Type

Book Chapter

Publication Date

2015

Source Publication

Marcia Rioux, Paula Pinto & Gillian Parekh eds. Disability, Rights Monitoring, and Social Change – Building Power out of Evidence, Canadian Scholars’ Press (2015), 169-186

Keywords

People with disabilities; Legal status; Civil rights; Human rights monitoring; Canada

Abstract

This chapter surveys laws and policies in Canada that affect the rights of persons with disabilities. It does so as part of a broader project on international disability rights monitoring and is guided by DRPI's National Law and Policy Monitoring Template (2008). The template is based on the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) and other international instruments. The template's purpose is "to monitor human rights for people with disabilities at the systemic level, that is, at the level of existing laws, policies, and programs," and to "identify and draw attention to the most critical gaps and deficiencies in the legislative and policy framework" (p. 2) based on human rights.

Comments

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Repository Citation

Mykitiuk, Roxanne and Yvonne Peters. "Canada Tracks Disability Rights: A DRPI Model of Systemic Monitoring." Disability, Rights Monitoring, and Social Change: Building Power out of Evidence. Ed. Marcia H. Rioux, Paula C. Pinto, and Gillian Parekh. Toronto : Canadian Scholars' Press, 2015.