Version as at 1 July 2024 Human Rights Act 1993 Part 1 s 5 to human rights and to ensure better compliance with standards laid down in international instruments on human rights: (ii) the desirability of New Zealand becoming bound by any inter‐ national instrument on human rights: (iii) [Repealed] (ka) to report to either or both of the Prime Minister and the Minister respon‐ sible on any existing or proposed legislation (including subordinate legislation), administrative provision, or policy of the Government that the Commission considers may affect human rights: (kb) to promote the development of new international instruments on human rights: (kc) to promote and monitor compliance by New Zealand with, and the reporting by New Zealand on, the implementation of international instru‐ ments on human rights ratified by New Zealand: (l) to make public statements in relation to any group of persons in, or who may be coming to, New Zealand who are or may be subject to hostility, or who have been or may be brought into contempt, on the basis that that group consists of persons against whom discrimination is unlawful under this Act: (m) to develop a national plan of action, in consultation with interested par‐ ties, for the promotion and protection of human rights in New Zealand: (n) to exercise the following functions in relation to equal employment opportunities: (o) (i) to evaluate, through the use of benchmarks developed by the Commission, the roles that legislation, guidelines, and voluntary codes of practice play in facilitating and promoting best practice in equal employment opportunities: (ii) to lead the development of guidelines and voluntary codes of practice to facilitate and promote best practice in equal employ‐ ment opportunities (including codes that identify related rights and obligations in legislation) in accordance with paragraph (e): (iii) to monitor and analyse progress in improving equal employment opportunities in New Zealand and to report to the Minister on the results of that monitoring and analysis: (iv) to liaise with, and complement the work of, any trust or body that has as one of its purposes the promotion of equal employment opportunities: to exercise or perform any other functions, powers, and duties conferred or imposed on it by or under this Act or any other enactment. 15