111 Human Rights Commission Table of secondary recommendations Within existing Constitutional Arrangements (for government with tino rangatiratanga partners) 1. In recognition that constitutional transformation will take time and within existing constitutional arrangements, the government with tino rangatiratanga partners, could take the following steps to advance Te Tiriti o Waitangi (Te Tiriti) and eliminate racism against tangata whenua. This includes the government considering the following actions: i. Reform central and local government legislation, systems, and policies to recognise Te Tiriti and to eliminate racism. ii. Government provides more support for whānau to navigate and engage with central and local government and its systems (including education, health, employment, and justice) to achieve equality of outcomes for Māori. iii. Reform and strengthen the Human Rights Act to give full effect to Te Tiriti. iv. Support the Human Rights Commission to become Tiriti-based and hold a stronger mandate to uphold Te Tiriti, Māori human and Indigenous rights and the United Nation Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) and eliminate and report authentically and fully on racism. v. Explore the establishment of a new Māori Education Authority to deliver kaupapa Māori education and support traditional ways of learning for Māori. vi. Review the unilaterally forced ‘full and final’ Treaty Settlements policy which inflicts continuing injustice on tangata whenua Māori. vii. Review and reform central and local government legislation and policies to return dispossessed land to iwi, hapū and whānau and improve the way that whenua Māori owners can access, develop and live on their land. Amend the New Zealand Human Rights Act (1993) (for government, Human Rights Commission with tino rangatiratanga partners) 2. The government with tino rangatiratanga partners, supported by the Ministry of Justice, the Human Rights Commission, and an Indigenous Rights Commissioner, amend the New Zealand Human Rights Act 1993 (refer to Appendix Two). This includes the government considering the following actions: i. Give full effect to Te Tiriti o Waitangi (te reo Māori text) throughout the Human Rights Act 1993. This includes all institutional arrangements for the Commission. ii. Include via preambulatory paragraphs definitions of racism, institutional racism, and white supremacy within the Act. iii. Add a primary function of the Commission to promote and protect the Indigenous and Māori human rights of tangata whenua under Te Tiriti and the UNDRIP.