Race Relations Priorities for 2011

This year’s Race Relations Report identified 10 priority areas for action for the coming year:

  1. protecting children who are vulnerable to abuse from harm and ensuring that all New Zealand children equally enjoy the right to education, good health, housing and freedom from poverty
  2. identifying and working to remove any structural or institutional barriers to racial equality in the enjoyment of civil, political, social and economic rights
  3. reducing the high rate of unemployment of Māori and Pacific peoples, and particularly of young people
  4. reducing the number of people in our prisons and the disproportionate number of them who are Māori
  5. making better provision for Mäori representation in local government in this year’s representation reviews
  6. ensuring that the transitional arrangements of the Auckland Council to provide for cultural diversity, inclusion and responsive services for diverse communities are confirmed and enhanced
  7. monitoring the impact of the new Immigration Act 2009 on migrants and refugees
  8. renewing efforts to provide for the learning and use of te reo Māori, Pacific Island and other community languages
  9. promoting public discussion and input into New Zealand’s 2010 report to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination

10. agreeing on actions by the public and private sectors and communities to implement the priority areas identified in the Human Rights Commission’s 2010 review of human rights.

Forums will be held on each of these priorities at the New Zealand Diversity Forum 2011.

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