About This Website

This website is an awareness resource designed to increase knowledge within Canada's community of people with disabilities about the Optional Protocol to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD).

It was created in the year 2020 by the National Working Group for the Awareness of the Optional Protocol, which is made up of representatives from the following disability organizations:

ARCH Disability Law Centre
British Columbia Aboriginal Network on Disability Society (BCANDS)
Canadian Association of the Deaf (CAD)
Canadian Autism Spectrum Disorders Alliance (CASDA)
Canadian Council on Rehabilitation and Work
CNIB Deafblind Community Services
CNIB Foundation
Communication Disabilities Access Canada
Council of Canadians with Disabilities (CCD)
DisAbled Women’s Network (DAWN) Canada
People First of Canada
Spinal Cord Injury Canada