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Rights: Years and Meeting

rights: Where was the meeting scheduled to take place In a legion hall that can only be reached by climbing a staircase, according to Huffington Post Canada. What did they do next They moved down the street to a caf . A caf where the washrooms were in the basement -- down a long flight of stairs. Last week, Toronto city planners called a public meeting to discuss accessible and affordable public housing. Come on, folks! This is 2016 -- nearly 2017. And the Universal Declaration of Human Rights will be 70 years old in two years. The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities is ten years old. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.