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Changes at Human Rights Commission

Disability Rights Commissioner Paula Tesoriero will be the acting head of the Human Rights Commission from today. Ms Tesoriero has agreed to take on the leadership role short term following the decision by Chief Human Rights Commissioner David Rutherford to leave the Commission at the end of the financial year in June.

Upholding women’s rights at the United Nations

The Committee last looked at New Zealand in 2012. The opportunity to participate in this process happens only once in an EEO/Women’s Rights Commissioner’s term. Read More

Jackie’s CEDAW speech – NHRI meeting 9 July 2018

The wahine of New Zealand have spoken: The top five human rights issues affecting our women are gender-based violence, employment and the persisting gender pay gap, exploitation and trafficking, health and data collection. Read More

New Zealand examined by the UN’s CEDAW Committee

The CEDAW Committee’s job is to hold governments to account who have signed the CEDAW Treaty. CEDAW was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 18 December 1979 and ratified by New Zealand in January 1985. Read More

Equality at work is improving but at a glacial pace

Women continue to feature in the negative labour market indicators according to a new report from the Human Rights Commission. Groups that are particularly marginalised include young Māori and Pasifika women and young Pasifika men. Read More

Employers offered family violence model policy

The Human Rights Commission congratulates a group of pioneering employers who have published a model workplace policy on family violence and encourages other firms to take it up. Read More

Honouring our refugees

Refugees who have resettled in New Zealand should be acknowledged as some of the bravest, kindest and most resilient people amongst us, Former Race Relations Commissioner Dame Susan Devoy says. Read More