CONTENTS 1 INTRODUCTION 4 2 BACKGROUND AND GENERAL MATTERS OF IMPLEMENTATION 5 a) Implementation of the Sustainable Development Agenda 8 b) Business and Human Rights 9 3 4 5 6 CONSTITUTIONAL AND LEGISLATIVE FRAMEWORK 11 a) Legislation 11 b) Constitutional arrangements 12 c) Reservations to the Convention 15 d) Pre-Legislative Scrutiny 16 e) Wider Human Rights Scrutiny measures 19 f) Family Court reforms 20 COUNTER TERRORISM MEASURES 22 a) Security Surveillance Legislation 22 b) Foreign Terrorist Fighters 24 c) Children 25 EQUALITY AND NON DISCRIMINATION 28 a) Equality in Employment 28 b) Inequalities in the education system and labour market 31 RIGHT TO LIFE, PROHIBITION OF TORTURE AND OTHER CRUEL, INHUMAN OR DEGRADING TREATMENT OR PUNISHMENT, AND RIGHTS OF NON CITIZENS 37 a) Violence against women 37 b) Disabled people 42 c) Intersex people 43 d) Suicide 44 e) Operation 8 44 Page 2 of 93 Human Rights Commission submission to the Human Rights Committee in relation to New Zealand’s 6th periodic review under the ICCPR