11. Address tāngata whaikaha Māori and disabled people’s lack of access to the determinants of health and wellbeing • developing processes to support decisionmaking, rather than substituted decisionmaking, if people are unable to make autonomous decisions Violence proliferates when there are imbalances of power, people have few choices, and are not supported to be autonomous and self-defining. To prevent this, we recommend: • shifting decision-making about disabilityrelated issues to within the disability community and provide resource to build capability and capacity within the community • • resourcing and supporting whānau and families to support their disabled family members. all tāngata whaikaha Māori and disabled people have an income that enables them to live in warm, safe and dry accessible homes; pay all bills, participate fully in the community and purchase and manage the support that they require (Article 28, UNCRPD) • all tāngata whaikaha Māori, Deaf and disabled people (children and adults) have equitable access to life-long learning, including full support to achieve at primary and secondary school and in tertiary training of their choice (Article 24, UNCRPD) • all organisations/businesses are required to make appropriate accommodations and ensure full accessibility of services and information to enable tāngata whaikaha Māori and disabled people to participate in employment of their choice (refer Articles 9/27 UNCRPD). 12. Enhance disabled people’s access to justice Disabled people in Aotearoa have recognised that a barrier to the disclosure of abuse is the lack of credibility accorded to tāngata whaikaha Māori, Deaf, disabled people and adults at risk by police and justice sector staff, including judges. This is discriminatory and contravenes disabled people’s right to justice (Article 13, UNCRPD) and the right to equal recognition before the law (Article 12, UNCRPD). We therefore recommend: • including the justice sector and police, in consultation with tāngata whaikaha Māori and disabled people in all upskilling, policy development and other processes to develop safe, intersectional police and justice sector responses to violence and abuse. • changing attitudes and developing justice sector understanding of legal capacity (UNCRPD, Article 12), supported decisionmaking versus substituted decisionmaking185 and tāngata whaikaha Māori and disabled people’s right to be recognised as competent, legitimate witnesses.186 In turn this will require: 58 • strengthening legislation and policies in relation to reasonable accommodation and accessibility • addressing discrimination in hiring practices and changing societal knowledge about, and attitudes to, disabled people (Article 8, UNCRPD) • developing systems to ensure tāngata whaikaha Māori and disabled people can fully participate in political processes on an equal basis with others (Article 29, UNCRPD) • developing systems to ensure tāngata whaikaha Māori and disabled people can fully participate in leisure and cultural activities with others of their choice (Article 30, UNCRPD) Human Rights Commission