CRPD Article
Recommendation
Status
Women with
Disabilities
(Article 6)
Work be continued and strengthened to assist women with
disabilities in obtaining education and employment and in
combating domestic violence. Organizations representing
women and girls with disabilities be involved in these
programmes.
YELLOW
Children with
Disabilities
(Article 7)
Work be increased to ensure that all children with
disabilities are able to access government and related
services, including to receive support to express their
views.
YELLOW
Accessibility
(Article 9)
Enact measures to ensure that all public buildings, as well
as public web pages providing services for all, are made
accessible to persons with disabilities, and recommends
that consideration be given to ensuring that new future
private houses are made fully accessible.
YELLOW
The exemption of factories and industrial premises where
fewer than 10 people are employed, from the accessibility
requirements of the Building Act 2004 and the Building
Code, be discontinued.
Equal
Recognition
before the Law
(Article 12)
Immediate steps to revise the relevant laws and replace
substituted decision-making with supported decisionmaking.
YELLOW
Access to
Justice (Article
13)
Examine the processes for the assessing of compensation
by the Accident Compensation Corporation to ensure that
adequate legal aid is available and that its processes are
fully accessible to all claimants, and finally to ensure that
this mechanism has a human rights focus.
RED
Access to
Justice (Article
13)
Organisations representing persons with disabilities be
consulted about the proposal to establish an accident
compensation tribunal. The Committee also recommends
that the tribunal adopt a flexible approach to the admission
of evidence, and that those who lack the means should be
given adequate legal aid to ensure full access to the
tribunal.
GREEN
Access to
Justice (Article
13)
Training programmes be run on the Convention and on the
Rights of Persons with Disabilities who come before
New Zealand courts and tribunals.
YELLOW
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