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Child Poverty Monitor 2014: Technical Report

This is the second year of the Child Poverty Monitor and this Technical Report provides data on a set of indicators that assess aspects of child…

What's Working: Improving equal employment opportunities in the public service

Equal employment opportunity (EEO) is about equality in the workplace. It is a human right to be treated fairly at every point of the employment process…

Making disability rights real: Second Report of the Independent Monitoring Mechanism of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

This second report of the Disability Convention Independent Monitoring Mechanism (IMM) details some of the experiences disabled people in New Zealand encounter each day. It highlights…

Race Relations in 2013

Race Relations in 2013 is the tenth annual review of race relations published by the Human Rights Commission. Documenting the main developments in race relations and…

Monitoring Human Rights in the Earthquake Recovery

Human rights don’t disappear the moment an earthquake, a hurricane or a tsunami strikes. We witnessed after the Indian Ocean tsunami, the earthquake in Haiti and…

A New Era in the Right to Sign

In 2006, after many years of lobbying by the deaf community, the New Zealand Sign Language Act was passed, making New Zealand Sign Language (NZSL) an…

Parents’, families and whānau contributions to education success

This paper looks at the impact parents, caregivers, families and whānau can have on children and young people’s learning and education success, and provides a rationale…

Race Relations in 2012

New Zealand’s compliance with international human rights treaties was considered by two United Nations treaty bodies in 2012 – the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural…

A framework for food in schools programmes in New Zealand

This paper discusses the evidence for a Government-supported framework and how Government might partner with others. It includes a possible framework for strengthening food in school…

Making disability rights real

This report reflects the information and data currently available on disabled people. The partners in the monitoring mechanism agreed to focus on certain aspects of the…