Professor Laverne Jacobs UNCRPD Member 2023 Newsletter
Professor Laverne Jacobs UNCRPD Member 2023 Newsletter (Vol. 1, Issue 1, September 2024)
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Human Rights Tribunal Disability Case Summaries in July & August 2024
The following are a summary of recent decisions relating to disability and human rights from the human rights tribunals in Canada (Summer, 2024, Issue 2). This issue of our digest covers a selection of decisions from the Human Rights Tribunals of Ontario, British Columbia, Alberta, and the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal during the months of July and August, 2024. This information is not intended to
Read moreHUMAN RIGHTS TRIBUNAL DISABILITY CASE SUMMARIES IN MAY & JUNE 2024
The following are a summary of recent decisions relating to disability and human rights from the human rights tribunals in Canada (Summer, 2024, Issue 1). This issue of our digest covers a selection of decisions from the Human Rights Tribunals of Ontario, British Columbia, Alberta, Newfoundland and Labrador, and the Northwest Territories during the months of May and June, 2024. This information
Read moreUN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD Committee) – Decisions Rendered on Individual Communications
Read the UN CRPD Committee’s Decisions Issued on Individual Communications in the 28th and 29th Sessions, in MS Word: 28th Session: Date of adoption: March 23, 2023 Type of Decision: Decision on merits Date of adoption: March 23, 2023 Type of Decision: Decision on merits 29th Session: Date of adoption: August 25, 2023 Type of Decision: Discontinuance decision Date of
Read moreHUMAN RIGHTS TRIBUNAL DISABILITY CASE SUMMARIES IN JULY & AUGUST 2023
The following are a summary of recent decisions relating to disability and human rights from the human rights tribunals in Canada (Summer, 2023, Issue 2). This issue of our digest covers a selection of decisions from the Human Rights Tribunals of British Columbia, Ontario, and Alberta during the months of July and August, 2023. This information is not intended to provide legal advice. Prepared
Read moreHUMAN RIGHTS TRIBUNAL DISABILITY CASE SUMMARIES IN JUNE 2023
The following are a summary of recent decisions relating to disability and human rights from the human rights tribunals in Canada (Summer, 2023, Issue 1). This issue of our digest covers a selection of decisions from the Human Rights Tribunals of British Columbia, Ontario, Alberta and Nova Scotia during the month of June 2023. This information is not intended to provide legal
Read moreHUMAN RIGHTS TRIBUNAL DISABILITY CASE SUMMARIES IN JULY & AUGUST 2021
The following are a summary of recent decisions relating to disability and human rights from the human rights tribunals in Canada (Summer, 2021, Issue 3). This issue of our digest covers decisions from the Human Rights Tribunals of British Colombia, Ontario, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, PEI, Alberta, the Northwest Territories, Quebec, and the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal that were rendered during the month of June 2021. Any relevant Supreme Court of
Read moreHUMAN RIGHTS TRIBUNAL DISABILITY CASE SUMMARIES JUNE 2020
The following are summaries of recent decisions relating to disability and human rights from the human rights tribunals in Canada (Summer, 2020, Issue 2). This issue of our digest covers decisions from the Human Rights Tribunals of British Colombia, Ontario, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, PEI, Alberta, the Northwest Territories, Quebec, and the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal that were rendered
Read moreCanada’s Proposed Disability Act: Improved Access to Justice, Air Transportation & A Federal Commissioner–Let’s do it!
The issues relating to accessibility laws are ones that I have been studying for a number of years. They are also quite important to me as a person with a disability. As a law professor, one of my primary research areas is administrative law which deals with regulation by government of various socioeconomic issues. I have also spent considerable time
Read moreThe Universality of the Human Condition: Theorizing Human Rights Claims for Transportation Inequality by Persons with Disabilities in Canada
By Laverne Jacobs, Associate Professor of Law, University of Windsor Canada[1] Here is an excerpt from my latest paper which explores transportation equality challenges for persons with disabilities in Canada, human rights decisions, and in which I propose a new theoretical framework for analyzing issues of ability-related equality that I have termed the ‘universality of the human condition’. The full
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Law, Disability & Social Change 