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Governance of Inclusive Cities: Realization of Disability Rights

Vendredi, 27 octobre, 2017 13:00à14:30
Pavillon Chancellor-Day NCDH 202, 3644, rue Peel, Montréal, QC, H3A 1W9, CA

Pour notre premier atelier du cycle sur Le handicap, les droits de la personne et le droit de 2017-2018, nous allons explorer les questions du handicap dans le contexte de l'environnement bâti et sa planification, son design et ses politiques publiques. Cette année, le thème de notre cycle d'atelier est "Handicap, Inclusion et Intégration dans les Grandes Villes." Nos panellistes seront: Stephanie Chipeur, candidate au DCL à la Faculté de droit de McGill, Omar Lachleb, fondateur de Jaccède Montréal, et Linda Gauthier, présidente de RAPLIQ.

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[en anglais seulement] Urbanization is currently one of the most important global trends of the 21st century. Urbanization has a great potential to be a great engineer to achieve sustainable and inclusive development for all. About 6.25 billion people, 15 per cent of them with disabilities, are predicted to be living in urban centres by 2050.[1] Urban environments, infrastructures, facilities and services, depending how they are planned and built, can impede or enable access, participation and inclusion of members of society.

For the 15 per cent of the world’s population who live with a disability, (many of whom live in urban areas), available evidence reveals a widespread lack of accessibility to built environments, from roads and housing, to public buildings and spaces and to basic urban services such as sanitation and water, health, education, transportation, and emergency and disaster response and resilience building and access to information and communications. These accessibility limitations contribute greatly to the disadvantage and marginalization faced by persons with disabilities, leading to disproportionate rates of poverty, deprivation and exclusion. This situation also impedes the realization of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and other internationally agreed development goals.

Une demande d’accréditation a été déposée pour fins de formation continue obligatoire pour juristes (1,5h).

 

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