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Disability Rights Coalition Annual General Meeting

Community Forum 2018

Disability Rights Coalition Annual General Meeting.

Please join us to review the legal Remedy over the past year and give your input for Year 2. Your voice counts!

Thursday 26 September, 2024
6pm to 8pm
Club Inclusion, 2652 Joseph Howe Drive, Halifax
Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85274640237?pwd=GJyxpSh4YuSzvPP9WRlPQIR3zqdeTp.1

Light refreshments will be served.
Accessible washroom/quiet area available

Year 1 of the Remedy

Checklist

As Year 1 of the Remedy is very nearly complete, the DRC wants everyone to recall what exactly the Province has agreed to do by March 31st. Here you’ll have the complete list of obligations which are supposed to have been completed. We have highlighted several – the Province’s progress on these outcomes should be evident in communities across the Province.

You’re Invited: Community Forum & Celebration – Saturday Dec 9th, 2023

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The Disability Rights Coalition invites you to a community forum and celebration of the systemic human rights remedy to end the discrimination against persons with disabilities in their access to social assistance and supports and services to live in community.

And we want to celebrate with you this important milestone in the struggle for equality for persons with disabilities in Nova Scotia.  We hope that you will join us!

[Image by Kohji Asakawa from Pixabay]

Disability Rights Coalition NS Welcomes Premier’s Apology

Premier Houston's apology

The DRC welcomes the Premier’s apology to persons with disabilities as an important first step towards reconciliation with a community whose members have experienced extreme forms of systemic discrimination over decades.  This important gesture by the Premier comes at a key moment as the Province moves toward addressing & ending its practices and policies that lead to the discriminatory treatment. 

Systemic Human Rights Remedy Ordered

Able and Disablled on scales of Justice

Having filed its human rights claim in 2014, the Disability Rights Coalition is very happy to report that we have achieved what we feel is a tremendous remedy to the systemic discrimination found by the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal in October 2021.

On June 28, 2023, the human rights Board of Inquiry approved an Interim Consent Order, which will start a step by step 5 year plan for the government to end the systemic discrimination of persons with disabilities in their access to social assistance including supports and services to live in community.

Human Rights Hearing to resume Tues. June 6th

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The Board of inquiry will hear from the parties with respect to a systemic human rights remedy and the details of an interim agreement with respect to monitoring and enforcement of that agreement to end discrimination against persons with disabilities in their access to social assistance.

The hearing will begin at 9:30 a.m. at Holiday Inn Express & Suites Halifax-Bedford, 980 Parkland Drive, Halifax.

Media Advisory, April 25 2023

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On Wednesday April 26, 2023 the Disability Rights Coalition will release an important update concerning its human rights complaint and the finding of systemic discrimination against persons with disabilities in their access to social assistance by the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal as well as the independent expert report that was prepared as a result of a collaborative process with the Province towards a systemic human rights remedy.

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