• flexibility and work design • employee development, promotion and exit • recruitment, induction and selection • remuneration, recognition and conditions • harassment and bullying prevention • safe and healthy working environment. The results for each Crown entity can be tracked over time through the Commission’s good-employer webtool http://good-employer.hrc. co.nz/#2017/report/all-entities Over half of the Crown entities achieved 100 percent compliance with the obligations – with seven achieving this for the first time. Overall compliance went up 2 percent from the previous year to 94 percent. Human rights mandate National Plan of Action The Commission, alongside the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, updated the National Plan of Action (NPA) actions from government agencies in July 2017 and March 2018. See https://npa.hrc.co.nz. These updates were collected and published in the annual NPA report in 2018. The report showed that of 100 actions, 56 have been completed and 40 are still in progress. Four actions have been discontinued or superseded by other projects. Significant focus went into developing and enhancing the NPA tool this year. The tool now supports recommendations from all human rights bodies and not just the Universal Periodic Review. It now also supports the Sustainable Development Goal indicators, goals and targets and allows for assigned users to provide progress reports against indicators. Racial discrimination In 2017, the Commission lodged its submissions on the 21st and 22nd periodic review of New Zealand by the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination under the Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD). The Race Relations Commissioner subsequently attended the UN Committee’s review hearing in Geneva. In its recommendations for the New Zealand Government, released late in 2017, the UN Committee adopted many of the recommendations from the Commission’s submissions. These included a recommendation that the New Zealand Government hold an independent inquiry into the systemic abuse of children and disabled adults in state institutions. The Commission notes that in 2018 the Government announced a Royal Commission of Inquiry into Historical Abuse in State Care. The Commission welcomes this development, which reflected the advocacy and communications efforts by the Commission and others. 28 Human Rights Commission