Ki te whaiao, ki te ao Mārama 4. Upholding human rights (continued) 5. Transnational nature of racism • Ensure government agencies have a diverse workforce. • Explore international examples of anti-racist policies and programmes. • Ensure government procurement processes require providers have anti-racist policies and can provide evidence of anti-racist work they have done. • Increase diverse representation in the media. • Include the views of minority communities in news reporting and ensure it is not dominated by Pākehā views. • Ensure ethnicity is reported with care and stereotypes are avoided, including news reporting that feeds antisemitism or islamophobia. • Develop anti-racist journalistic guidelines, supported by media training. • Regulate hate speech on social media and in other online spaces, including more significant penalties than are currently available. • Develop education for children on safely navigating social media and critical thinking about the content with which they engage. Many participants shared how they could not foresee racism ever being eliminated, or at least not in their lifetime. They identified how such a task must be long-term, and its progress is likely to be inter-generational. Participants therefore felt that a strong Plan could only be effective if the actions to be implemented are monitored and evaluated, with long-term planning, from the outset. Participants thought a single entity should be designated with the specific task of coordinating, monitoring and evaluating the implementation of the action plan. This could be done by either expanding the powers of an existing entity or creating a new entity. Tangata Tiriti participants had the following ideas about the development and implementation of the Plan. • Make it multi-dimensional: identify short, medium and long-term actions, and actions for the private and community sectors, as well as for government. Te Kāhui Tika Tangata • Measure progress on all actions. • Incentivise the private sector to take action towards eliminating racism. • Complement private sector incentives with a private sector compliance mechanism. • Incentivise the philanthropic sector to ensure that more funding goes to Māori organisations (currently only 2% goes to Māori organisations). • Co-ordinate a network of organisations and peak bodies engaged in antiracism work so that effort can be coordinated nationally. • Promote the Plan, when it is released, via a public campaign to ensure all of government buy-in and for all of society to understand what it is. 80