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
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