Improve accessibility
The HRC undertook a multi-year project to
and effectiveness of HRC improve accessibility of its enquiries and
discrimination
complaints service.
complaints procedures
Actioned
Consider ratifying ILO The Government has no plans to ratify any of
169 concerning
these Conventions.
Indigenous and Tribal
peoples, the Convention
relating to the Status of
Stateless Peoples and
the Convention on the
Protection of the Rights
of All Migrant Workers
Rejected
Consider accepting the The Government agreed to consider accepting Under action
CERD Article 14
the Article 14 procedure. Public consultation
complaint procedure
took place in 2011. There is no decision as yet.
Priorities for 2012
• Engage with the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial
Discrimination in their review of New Zealand's compliance with the Convention
on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.
• Make provision for individual complaints of racial discrimination to the Committee
on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination under Article 14 of the Convention on
the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.
3. Action on Diversity
The United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, in its review of
New Zealand’s race relations performance in 2007, commended the Human Rights
Commission’s New Zealand Diversity Action Programme. The programme brings together
organisations taking practical action to promote cultural diversity, racial equality,
harmonious relations and effective observance of the Treaty of Waitangi.
The programme is indicative of the wide range of activities that take place in the community
throughout New Zealand to maintain and develop cultural diversity and harmonious race
relations. In the past five years, around 250 organisations have participated in the
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