Contents I. INTRODUCTION .................................................................................................................... 3 II. KEY DEVELOPMENTS AND OBSERVATIONS ON PROGRESS SINCE SIXTH PERIODIC REVIEW ...... 4 III. AOTEAROA NEW ZEALAND CONTEXT .................................................................................... 5 TE TIRITI O WAITANGI .............................................................................................................................. 6 SYSTEMIC ISSUES ..................................................................................................................................... 7 III. RIGHTS UNDER THE CONVENTION ....................................................................................... 10 ARTICLES 1 AND 4 ................................................................................................................................. 10 Measures taken to incorporate Convention into domestic law (List of Issues item 2).................. 10 ARTICLE 2 ............................................................................................................................................ 12 National Preventive Mechanism (List of Issues item 4) ................................................................ 12 Violence and abuse against women (List of Issues item 5) ........................................................... 12 Trafficking (List of Issues item 6) ................................................................................................... 18 ARTICLE 3 ............................................................................................................................................ 20 Specific needs of vulnerable persons seeking asylum (List of Issues item 7) ................................ 20 Extraditions (List of Issues item 9)................................................................................................. 22 ARTICLE 10 .......................................................................................................................................... 23 Training and education (List of Issues item 14)............................................................................. 23 ARTICLE 11 .......................................................................................................................................... 23 Regulation and use of less-lethal weapons in prisons (List of Issues item 15) .............................. 24 Conditions and treatment of persons in prisons (List of Issues items 17 and 18) ......................... 25 Solitary confinement and prison conditions (List of Issues Items 18 and 19) ............................... 30 Children and young people in detention (List of Issues item 20)................................................... 33 Inter-prisoner violence and deaths in custody (List of Issues Item 21 and 22) ............................. 34 Detention of asylum seekers (List of Issues item 23) .................................................................... 34 Mental health and compulsory treatment (List of Issues item 24) ............................................... 36 ARTICLES 12 AND 13 ............................................................................................................................. 38 Operation Burnham (List of Issues item 27) .................................................................................. 38 ARTICLE 14 .......................................................................................................................................... 39 Responding to claims of historic experiences of cruel treatment (List of Issues item 28) ............. 39 Reservation to Article 14 (List of Issues item 30) .......................................................................... 45 ARTICLE 16 .......................................................................................................................................... 46 Unnecessary medical interventions on intersex children (List of issues item 32) ......................... 46 Counter-terrorism response (List of Issues item 33) ..................................................................... 47 GENERAL INFORMATION ON OTHER MEASURES AND DEVELOPMENT RELATING TO THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE CONVENTION IN THE STATE PARTY ............................................................................................................ 48 COVID-19 response (List of Issues Item 34) ................................................................................... 48 2