This course is divided into 11 modules that summarize the rights of persons with disabilities as specified by the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the processes by which one may seek redress when they believe their human rights have been violated.

1. Module 1: Human Rights

   • What are human rights according to the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights?
   • Human rights in Canada and Canadian provinces and territories.
   • Discrimination and Harassment.
   • Human rights and persons with disabilities.

2. Module 2: Equality and Accessibility

   • Part A: Equality and non-discrimination
   • Direct and indirect forms of disability discrimination.
   • Part B: Accessibility
   • Physical, informational, institutional, and attitudinal barriers to accessibility.

3. Module 3: Freedom of Expression, and Participation in Political and Public life

   • Part A: Freedom of expression and opinion
   • The right to hold any opinion, to express your opinion, and to seek information.
   • Part B: The right to participation in political and public life.
   • The right to vote, to run for office, and to participate in the conduct of public affairs.

4. Module 4: Privacy, Independence and Dignity

   • Part A: Privacy, integrity, home, and the family
   • Privacy of information, communication, and personal environment. Freedom from attacks.
   • Freedom to marry, divorce, and found and maintain a family.
   • Part B: The right to live independently and with dignity in the community
   • The right to choose how you live, where you live, and with whom you live with an adequate standard of living and with social protection.
   • Legal capacity and supported decision-making

5. Module 5: Health

   • Part A: The right to health
   • The right to treatment, health promotion, and disease prevention that is available, accessible, acceptable, and of high quality.
   • The right to health services specifically related to disabilities.
   • Part B: The right to habilitation and rehabilitation
   • Gaining skills, abilities, and knowledge, and regaining skills, abilities and knowledge compromised as a result of acquiring a disability

6. Module 6: Protection and Freedom

   • Part A: The right to protection in situations of risk
   • The right to protection in situations of risk in contexts such as natural disaster, armed conflict, and other humanitarian emergencies.
   • Protection from sexual and domestic violence.
   • Protection for refugees and displaced persons.
   • Part B: Freedom from torture and other forms of abuse
   • Protection from exploitation, violence, and abuse.
   • Protection services are age-, gender- and disability-sensitive.

7. Module 7: Education

   • Part A: The right to education
   • The right to development of personality, talents, creativity, mental and physical abilities, and a sense of dignity and self-worth.
   • Access to primary, secondary, and post-secondary education, vocational training, adult education, and lifelong learning without discrimination and on an equal basis with others.
   • Reasonable accommodations in education.
   • Part B: The right to participate in sport and culture
   • Access to cultural materials, activities, and venues.
   • Promotion of the development of creative, artistic, sporting, and recreational activities.

8. Module 8: The right to work

   • The right to equal treatment with respect to recruitment, hiring, career advancement, favourable working conditions, union rights, vocational training, and professional rehabilitation.
   • Barriers and reasonable accommodations.

9. Module 9: Special Populations

   • Part A: The human rights of children with disabilities
   • The rights to education, health, family, and an adequate standard of living.
   • Rights to life, survival, development, and participation.
   • Parents and families of children with disabilities.
   • Part B: The right to non-discrimination and equality for women with disabilities
   • Gender violence, access to justice, access to rehabilitation services, access to essential healthcare, the right to sexual and reproductive healthcare, education and literacy, workplace discrimination, and an adequate standard of living.
   • Part C: The human rights of other populations of persons with disabilities.
   • Multiple and aggravated discrimination.
   • Human experience and identity of persons with disabilities is complex, multi-layered, and multidimensional.

10. Module 10: Access to justice

    • Seeking remedies for discrimination, rights as victims of crime, participation in the justice system as jurors and witnesses, property and financial rights.
    • General accessibility, individualized accessibility, court facilities, court programs and services, and court policies.
    • Barriers and accommodations.

11. Module 11: Seeking redress for discrimination

    • Part A: Complaint processes at the Provincial and Territorial level.
    • Filing a complaint.
    • Intake, investigation, mediation, reasonable offers, and remedies.
    • Frequently asked questions.
    • Example: The Manitoba Human Rights Commission
    • Part B: Complaint processes at the Federal level.
    • The Canadian Human Rights Commission.
    • Frequently asked questions.
    • Part C: Complaint processes at the International level.
    • The United Nation Human Rights Commission
    • The Convention on the Rights of Persons with disabilities.
    • The Optional Protocol.