Conducting a National Inquiry into Systemic Patterns of Human Rights Violation The New Zealand Human Rights Commission embedded the recommendations of the National Inquiry into Discrimination Experienced by Transgender People into its research, policy development, education, advocacy, monitoring and reporting activities. The recommendations informed reports to various international monitoring committees. As a result, the concluding observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child to the New Zealand Government in 2016 included four recommendations relating to the treatment of intersex children and the 2019 Universal Periodic Review included two broader SOGISC recommendations. Ten years after the release of its report a review of progress against the recommendations was made. It identified what had happened and the gaps that still needed addressing. KEY POINTS: CHAPTER 15 • The NHRI, as a permanent organisation, has a responsibility to follow-up the inquiry to promote implementation of its recommendations. • Later in the inquiry’s life, the NHRI should develop a follow-up strategy to direct its work after the release of the report. • The follow-up strategy should be directed towards building and maintaining commitment among relevant academic institutions and NGOs and towards placing sustained pressure on the Government and others to whom recommendations are directed. • The NHRI also has a continuing role in monitoring and reporting publicly on implementation of the inquiry’s recommendations. It should prepare and release an annual report on implementation, at least for the first few years after the inquiry has reported. 76