UN rapporteur Laverne Jacobs highlights that the UK government's benefits assessments process has led to around 600 deaths in the last 3 years #CRPD24 What answer does the government have to that?

#CRPD31 ✅The CRPD Committee has concluded its 31st session with reviews of 9 States. Concluding Observations for Belarus 🇧🇾, Belgium 🇧🇪, Benin 🇧🇯, Burkina Faso 🇧🇫, Denmark 🇩🇰, Ghana 🇬🇭, Mauritius 🇲🇺, Netherlands 🇳🇱, and Ukraine 🇺🇦 will be published soon: internationaldisabilityalliance.org/blog/crpd-comm…

Isaiah Kioiloglou, part of IOC Young Leaders, aims to create employment opportunities for women with disabilities through goalball, a sport featured in the #Paralympics2024, & through her project ‘Cycle of Femmability.’ Learn more about the project here: bit.ly/4dRY06y

“Women with Disabilities Stigma Inventory,” is a survey tool published by UN Women & UN Development used to collect data about the experiences of women & girls with disabilities globally in relation to stigma, discrimination, & gender-based violence. Learn more: bit.ly/3TiT7vi

New #AI software developed by Ada aims to address barriers that many #PWD experience when accessing medical care & trying to receive a diagnosis, such as long wait times, a lack of #accessibility, & discrimination. Read more here: bit.ly/3XCPoeD

Check out Law, Disability & SC's Human Rights and Disability Case Summaries at bit.ly/3Xxn7Vo These include summaries of select decisions from #HumanRightsTribunals in ON, BC, AB, and the CHRT rendered during July & August, 2024. *Not intended as advice* #PWD #HumanRights

The Market Basket Measure sets the official poverty line in Canada but fails to consider the extra costs of living for #PWD. Measuring poverty accurately is essential to guiding gov't policy & developing programs that ensure #PWD get the support they need. bit.ly/4dSdDew

BC Gov't announces #PWD receiving provincial disability assistance can keep full amount of the new #CanadaDisabilityBenefit. Disability Without Poverty says it's a step in the right direction but more work is needed to lift Canadians with disabilities out of poverty: bit.ly/4e1vfVh

September is National Guide Dog Awareness Month, celebrating the significant role that guide dogs, & their volunteers play in fostering inclusive communities for #PWDs. Discover how society can help create a supportive environment for these partnerships: bit.ly/3TWQ0tp

Check out Professor Laverne Jacobs UNCRPD Member 2023 Newsletter on the Law, Disability & SC website for an overview of Laverne Jacobs's activities during the 28th and 29th sessions of the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, in Geneva: bit.ly/4eydOM2 #CRPD

The United Nations International Day of Persons with Disabilities was celebrated December 3rd with the theme- Amplifying the leadership of persons with disabilities for an inclusive and sustainable future. #IDPD2024 #PWD #DisabilityDay #HumanRights #Equality

Call for Abstracts The Disability Rights Working Group UC Berkeley Law Center on Comparative Equality & Anti-Discrimination Law (BCCE) welcomes abstracts for an online seminar on faculty + staff disability-related policies. View submission info here: docs.google.com/document/d/13g…

Canada is being heard this afternoon at CRPD. #UNCRPD #PWD #humanrights United Nations Geneva

Join us for “Leadership in Canadian Disabled Youth Advocacy: Pathways & Intersections” May 23, 12-1:30pm EDT w/our panelists anna | disability advocate✨, Jay B, Logan W, Nicole C. Moderated by Carly Fox w/opening + closing remarks by Prof Laverne Jacobs! tinyurl.com/2vszyeyu

Truly thrilled for this upcoming webinar on disabled youth advocacy with four amazing panellists, and excited that Carly Fox is collaborating with us at Law, Disability & SC ! Friday, May 23 at noon EDT. More info below.

The Law, Disability & Social Change Project research centre is pleased to share our 2023 – 2024 annual report. Please click the link below to view. lawdisabilitysocialchange.com/2025/07/17/ann…