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Earlier this week the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child issued its Concluding Observations on Canada’s Third and Fourth Report on the Convention on the Rights of the Child.

CACL Executive Vice-President, Michael Bach, addressed the Opening Plenary of the World Congress of the International Association for the Scientific Study of Intellectual Disability in Halifax, July 9, 2012.

CACL congratulates Thomas Hammarberg, who is finishing his term the Council of Europe’s Commissioner for Human Rights, on the release of an Issue Paper on the right to live independently in the community.

We thought we would share with you one of the newsletters we often keep track of here at CACL; Enable.

Our friends at the BC Self Advocacy Foundation created a great and very powerful video that tells the story of our movement in a very creative way. It was launched on Youtube few months back but we were only recently made aware of it so we thought we would share it with you now.

The Fourth Session of the Conference of States Parties to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities will be held at UN Headquarters in New York from 7 to 9 September 2011.