Contents 1. Introduction 2 2. Background and general matters of implementation 3 A. Implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals 3 B. Business and Human Rights 4 3. 4. 5. Inequalities 6 A. Material Deprivation 7 B. Housing 11 C. Education 13 D. Health 17 E. Employment 19 F. Criminal Justice System 22 G. Asylum Seekers 24 Violence and abuse 26 A. Women 26 B. Children and Young People 28 C. Disabled People 29 D. Transgender Women 30 Additional matters 32 A. Mental Health in Detention 32 B. Legislative recognition of economic, social and cultural rights 33 C. The Optional Protocol to ICESCR 35 D. Realisation of economic, social and cultural rights in Tokelau 6. 35 Appendix 1: List of proposed questions to be included in LOIPR for New Zealand 36 1