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Website: Human Rights Commission:
Email: infoline@hrc.co.nz
Last Publication Date: 8 May 2018
This paper provides a high-level summary of the key international and domestic human rights standards and principles that can guide legal and policy frameworks in responding…
Last Publication Date: 1 Jun 2014
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…
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…
Last Publication Date: 1 Mar 2014
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…
Last Publication Date: 1 Dec 2013
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…
Last Publication Date: 1 Sep 2013
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…
Last Publication Date: 1 May 2013
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…
Last Publication Date: 1 Dec 2012
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…
Last Publication Date: 1 Nov 2012
How women fare in New Zealand.
