
Karanina Sumeo: Gender and ethnic pay gaps need addressing
We must ensure that basic human rights to equality and dignity are realised for all and not just the majority. Read More
This includes work on equal pay, gender-based violence, sexual harassment, breastfeeding and more. Women's right are set out in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and more explicitly referred to in the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) and the Beijing Platform for Action.
To ensure women are not being discriminated against when it comes to their salary, wages and progression the Human Rights Commission is calling on the Government to include pay transparency in legislation.
Research by the Human Rights Commission and the New Zealand Work Research Institute found that more than 50,000 working households live in poverty across Aotearoa. The overall in-work poverty rate was 7 percent before considering rent or mortgage payments. Once housing costs are factored in, the in-work poverty rate increases substantially.
We must ensure that basic human rights to equality and dignity are realised for all and not just the majority. Read More
This is part of a speech delivered by the Equal Employment Opportunities Commissioner Saunoamaali’i Karanina Sumeo at the Council of Trade Unions Biennial Women’s Conference on Friday 12th July. Read More
Today, the Human Rights Commission released an updated guide with new information on making a complaint about sexual harassment Read More
The Commission’s report of the inquiry into the equal employment opportunity issues in the aged care workforce has been published. The inquiry team considered workforce issues raised by both employees and employers in the aged care sector when developing the report’s final recommendations.
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Employers and workplaces can play a vital role in assisting victims of violence.
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The 19th September 2018 marks 125 years since the law changed in Aotearoa New Zealand so that all people, including women could vote.
The law change came about after a determined campaign over a number of years by a group of women led by Kate Shepherd. They presented a series of massive petitions to Parliament in 1891,1892 and 1893. In 1893 the petition presented to Parliament by the Suffragists had nearly 32,000 signatures. Soon after the all-male Parliament voted to change the law, so women could vote.
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Every year over 500 young women gather in Auckland and Rotorua to take part in New Zealand’s premier young women’s festival, Wāhine Kākano.
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