HUMAN RIGHTS IN NEW ZEALAND 20 1 0 The Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples through adoption of the complaints procedure under (2007) sets out universal human rights as they apply to Article 14, improved interaction with the Committee Indigenous peoples. The declaration is discussed more on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD), fully in the chapter on human rights and the Treaty of mechanisms for developing CERD reports in consulta- Waitangi. tion with human rights institutions and civil society, and Durban Declaration and Programme of Action The United Nations World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance, held in Durban in 2001, adopted a declaration and a wide-ranging World Programme of Action to Combat Racial Discrimination. The programme has 219 separate recommendations, but its main themes relevant to New Zealand are: • effective legal mechanisms to address instances of racism and racial discrimination • targeted programmes to reduce inequalities experi- 59 effective monitoring and evaluation of the Committee’s recommendations • ensuring the protection of human rights in the context of anti-terrorism legislation and activities • protecting the rights of migrant workers through a comprehensive and balanced approach to migration, and countering xenophobia • collecting reliable data on hate crime, as well as developing a comprehensive system of data collection and analysis on racial discrimination and racial equality • working with sporting codes to ensure freedom from racism and discrimination in sport. enced by indigenous peoples and ethnic minorities • public education in schools and workplaces, and In the 2006 Census, New Zealanders identified their through public information programmes, about racism ethnicity as follows: and racial discrimination, Indigenous peoples and European 2,609,592 67.6% Mäori 565,329 14.6% society, including the protection of the languages and New Zealander 429,429 11.1% cultures of Indigenous peoples and ethnic minorities Asian 354,552 9.2% • diversity in government and business to remove insti- Pacific 265,974 6.9% 36,237 0.9% migrant communities • promotion of cultural diversity as a positive value in tutional barriers, provide equal access to services and enable equal participation by Indigenous peoples and MELAA* ethnic minorities *Middle Eastern, Latin American and African • research, data collection and measurement to enable progress to be monitored in achieving racial equality. Young people are even more diverse. The ethnicity of New Zealand children attending primary and secondary A Durban Review Conference was held in Geneva in 2009. school in 2009 was: The outcome document reaffirms the 2001 Durban European 424,242 55.8% a number of issues, including those listed above; and Mäori 166,998 22.0% identifies further issues that that have assumed greater Pacific 73,081 9.6% Asian 68,784 9.0% Other 18,225 2.4% Declaration and Programme of Action; re-emphasises prominence since 2001.3 Those with particular relevance to New Zealand include: • strengthening implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (ICERD) 3 4 Accessed 18 September 2010 from http://www.un.org/durbanreview2009/pdf/Durban_Review_outcome_document_En.pdf 5