Housing, health and community – inclusion and participation achieved through all people in New Zealand having access to healthy housing, the highest attainable level of health and wellbeing, and accessibility consistent with the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Impact Target Impact results Decision-makers in the Christchurch rebuild use the Commission’s advice and guidance as evidenced by them increasingly: a Nine of the 33 recommendations contained in the Commission’s monitoring report, Monitoring Human Rights in the Canterbury Earthquake Recovery have been progressed b Decision makers in Canterbury made policy changes including the extension of settlement dates for residential insurance claims, insulation of homes, and investment in psychosocial services 1 delivering their accessibility obligations under Article 9 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities towards people living within Christchurch communities 2 making housing decisions in Christchurch which reflect the input of people living within these communities and upholding property rights 3 ensuring affordable, accessible and healthy housing in the built environment of Christchurch 4 making insurance decisions that reflect an understanding of the human rights of the people they insure Violence and abuse – people in New Zealand are free from violence and abuse Impact Target Impact results Adoption and replication by secondary schools of Commission information on good practice, and the adoption by secondary schools and the Ministry of Education of the measurement of incidents of violence and abuse and the monitoring of the success of interventions The Commission did not directly provide good practice on bullying prevention in secondary schools instead it participated in the Bullying Prevention Advisory Group resulting in human rights advice being included in national guidance on bullying prepared by the Ministry of Education and provided to schools. This guidance will be used by schools to develop policies and inform their practices. The Minister of Justice noted this approach, which was not considered to be a significant variation to output Commission advice that the Government adopt the recommendations of the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women is accepted by the Government through the second Universal Periodic Review cycle The Government accepted the Commission’s recommendations on addressing violence against women made during New Zealand’s second Universal Periodic Review 16 Human Rights Commission