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Dec/09 - United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
This agreement sets out what countries have to do to make sure that disabled people have the same rights as everybody else.

Dec/07 - European Court of Human Rights hears first social care institution case
It is twenty years since the fall of the Berlin wall, and the collapse of socialist systems in Europe. The first case heard by the European Court of Human Rights since this anniversary deals with a situation which has changed little in the past twenty years: the segregation of hundreds of thousands of people labelled with intellectual disabilities, mental health problems and other types of disabilities.

Oct/22 - Protesters call for NDP to do more for poor, disabled
WINNIPEG - A decade of NDP government hasn’t ended poverty, nor has it closed the province’s largest institution for the disabled, dozens of chilled protesters charged outside the leadership convention Saturday.

Oct/19 - Expert Group Report on the Transition from Institutional to Community-Based Care Released
Expert Group Report on the Transition from Institutional to Community-based Care Katrina Ward - 07 October 2009

Sep/11 - Institutionalized man wages long fight for independence
By Burt Constable | Daily Herald Columnist