Response to the Ministerial Review He Urupare Arotakenga On 21 February 2018, pursuant to section 132 of the Crown Entities Act 2004, the Minister of Justice appointed retired Judge Coral Shaw to review the Human Rights Commission in relation to the handling of internal sexual harassment claims and the Commission’s organisational culture. The report on the Ministerial Review was released by the Minister of Justice on 15 May 2018. The Commission has taken seriously its obligations to respond to the 31 recommendations. We invested in a team of two senior seconded personnel together with a response team, Te Röpü Arotake (Review Group) of 11 staff, and we established a response programme. Te Röpü Arotake provided the Chief Executive with robust advice and input in addressing the Ministerial Review recommendations. The response programme grouped the 31 recommendations into three programme categories: • Leadership and culture • Governance • Organisational processes and systems. The recommendations encompassed revised policies, practices and procedures (particularly relating to sexual harassment), improved Commissioner induction, training, review of Commissioner support resourcing, policy consultation, and general training for all in human rights in the context of the workplace. Of the 31 recommendations, all but one (assigned to the Ministry of Justice) have started and virtually all have been completed. We have developed an effective and genuinely consultative approach for reviewing all our workplace policies, which we will continue to use. Those workplace policies explicitly identified for urgent review have been completed and implemented. An independent quality assurance review was undertaken in December 2018 and a final review in June 2019. The review found that the Commission has responded in an appropriate, positive and substantive manner consistent with the Ministerial Review intent. 56 Human Rights Commission