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Nothing Without Us!

Thursday, June 17th, 2021 11:30 AM to 12:45 PM

The disability community in Canada and internationally has continually called upon all levels of government to include persons with disabilities in its management of the current pandemic and recovery efforts. This side event would focus on how countries can take an overarching “Nothing without us” approach to the pandemic recovery and ensure full social and economic inclusion of persons with disabilities.

As the world around us continues to grapple with the COVID-19 pandemic, we find ourselves in a middle place between the optimism that comes with vaccine rollout in our community and deep sorrow for the ongoing trauma many are facing in India and elsewhere. If you are looking for ways to help, here is a list of suggestions from Maclean’s. 

A new report is now available describing an environmental scan of domestic and international good practices to integrate SGBA+ in health impact assessments to support implementation of new requirements in the Canada’s Impact Assessment Act.

A special event to discuss the findings is scheduled for May 6 at 1 p.m.

RSVP to info@criaw-icref.ca for a link to participate and a copy of the report.
 

A new report published this week provides the findings of research conducted to assist Employment and Social Development Canada in identifying good or best practices and lessons learned from the response to the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada.

Conducted in partnership with the DisAbled Women’s Network of Canada (DAWN), this research helps us better understand how diverse people with disabilities in Canada have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic and the effects of government COVID-19 measures on diverse people with disabilities in Canada.

The Signs Journal is calling for transdisciplinary and transnational essays that address substantive feminist questions, debates, and controversies. 

This special issue invites reassessments across disciplines, broadly questioning and complicating feminist histories, debates, and politics of care and caring. Submissions exploring cultural work on representations of care and caring from the arts, media and popular culture, or literature or literary studies are also welcome.

The deadline for submissions is December 15, 2021.

Webinar presented by the Live Work Well Research Centre. Join us Thursday, June 25, 2020 at 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM (EST)!

The Live Work Well Research Centre is launching a webinar series entitled “From the Margins: Communities Respond to COVID-19”, where we will elevate perspectives often excluded from dominant discussions of COVID-19. The panelists will discuss what are the specific challenges that their communities and organizations are facing due to COVID-19 and the social, political, and economic conditions underlying these challenges. 

Webinar presented by the Live Work Well Research Centre. Join us Wednesday, June 17th, 2020 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM!

More Promise than Practice: Gender-Based Analysis+ Intersectionality and Impact Assessment extends our knowledge about promising practices in intersectional impact assessments by turning to international literature and examples. We are interested in how to better understand and respond to the experiences of Indigenous women and Two-Spirit persons, youth, and people with disabilities in resource development and extraction contexts.

Girls Without Barriers is a project led by the DisAbled Women’s Network of Canada, with the objective of reporting what is known on the rights, needs, and experiences of diverse girls and young women with disabilities, and address the gaps in order to promote their full participation in girl-serving programs in Canada.

The Live Work Well Research Centre, along with many other people and organizations, are excited to announce our 7 year Engendering Disability-Inclusive Development (EDID) partnership. The project centres around the barriers that women and girls with disabilities face, who suggested by the United Nations are to be one of the most marginalized groups worldwide.

Canadian Public Policy/Analyse de politiques, since 1975 the foremost peer-reviewed journal examining social and economic policy in Canada, invites submissions related to the COVID-19 pandemic for expedited publication.

Deadline for submission: June 15, 2020

More info: https://utpjournals.press/journals/cpp/cfp