Your chance to comment on Aotearoa’s human rights record
Source: Human Rights Commission
Te Kāhui Tika Tangata, the New Zealand Human Rights Commission is encouraging organisations and individuals to make submissions to the United...
Health inequity concerns raised by Race Relations Commissioner
Source: Human Rights Commission
The Race Relations Commissioner Meng Foon has called on the government to respond to concerns around health inequity from the Pacific...
Meng Foon: In times of crisis we need to look deeply in the mirror
Source: Human Rights Commission
This first appeared in The Spinoff on September 20, 2021.
Most of us here in Aotearoa New Zealand, I think, care about...
The use of te reo Māori
Source: Human Rights Commission
May I complain about the use of te reo Māori?
The Commission does not offer its dispute resolution service for complaints about...
Human Rights Commission says “Te reo Māori is a right”
Source: Human Rights Commission
The Human Rights Commission will no longer consider individual complaints over the use of te reo Māori or the term Pākehā.
It...
Human rights in relation to COVID-19
Source: Human Rights Commission
Learn about your human rights in relation to COVID-19
Even in times of crisis, people have human rights that safeguard their dignity....
Victimisation
Source: Human Rights Commission
Victimisation
Victimising people because they have claimed their rights under the Human Rights Act or because they have made a disclosure under...
Racial disharmony
Source: Human Rights Commission
Racial disharmony
It is unlawful to cause or excite hostility against groups of people, or bring them into contempt, because of their...
Sexual and racial harassment
Source: Human Rights Commission
Sexual and racial harassment
Sexual and racial harassment are particular types of discrimination.
Sexual harassment is unwelcome or offensive sexual behaviour that is...
Responsibility to adopt new face-covering rules and also ensure they are not a reason...
Source: Human Rights Commission
As New Zealanders outside Auckland move into level 2 the Human Rights Commission is reminding people to wear masks, but also...
Aroha to those injured by terrorist attack on Friday
Source: Human Rights Commission
The Human Rights Commission extends Aroha and sympathies to all those injured and terrorised by the attack in Auckland on Friday.
Race...
Hate speech laws and red lights
Source: Human Rights Commission
By Chief Human Rights Commissioner Paul Hunt
This opinion piece by the Chief Commissioner Paul Hunt first appeared in the NZ Herald
Red...
