and senior management in the public sector and to eliminate the gender pay gap
in the public and private sector over the next reporting period, and provide an
update to the CEDAW Committee when it reviews New Zealand in 2016/17.
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take steps – regulatory or otherwise - to require listed companies to establish
and disclose gender polices including measurable objectives and implementation
in their annual reports in line with the United Nations Guiding Principles on
Business and Human Rights; and
establish a cross agency programme of work to implement and monitor the
implementation of SDG Goal 5 – achieving gender equality and empower all
women and girls.
The Commission recommends that the Committee urge the Government to:
• set targets to increase the representation of Māori, Pacific People and disabled
people in corporate governance and senior management in the public sector
over the next reporting period;
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strengthen its efforts to increase the participation of Māori, Pacific People and
disabled people in the labour market; and
•
report back to the Committee within 18 months on what steps the Government
has taken to reduce bias and discrimination at work.
The Commission recommends that the Committee urges the Government to:
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report back to the Committee within 18 months on progress made against the
targets in Ka Hikitea and the Pasifika Education Plan;
ensure that the Special Education Update Action Plan is based on the principle of
inclusive education;
ensure all aspects of the right to education are adequately protected in any new
Education Act and corresponding regulations;
codify an enforceable right to an inclusive education; and
provide data - disaggregated by gender, disability ethnicity and family status – on
educational outcomes for children who are materially deprived, and report back
to the Committee on this within 18 months.
The Commission recommends that the Committee urges the Government to:
report back to the Committee within 18 months on the work of the Ministerial
Group on Family Violence and Sexual Violence;
report back to the Committee within 18 months on the Law Commission’s report
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Human Rights Commission submission to the Human Rights Committee in relation to New Zealand’s 6th periodic review under the ICCPR