Disabled people losing out in job market
Disabled people have more difficulties getting and keeping work. They are often in jobs below their skill level, and are twice as likely to be unemployed as non-disabled people. These findings are...
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Talking with disabled people
A New Zealand Sign Langauge sign for "talk" The Human Rights Commission wants to meet with disabled people to hear their stories and to make sure disabled people’s voices are included in its work. This...
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Nicola Owen welcomed to the Human Rights Commission
Nicola Owen (right) and Shae Ronald Nicola Owen, from Auckland Disability Law, has started work at the Human Rights Commission on a six-month secondment (short-term contract). Ms Owen will be...
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Human Rights Commission gets bigger disability role
Rosslyn Noonan, Chief Human Rights Commissioner The Government has announced it will establish a full-time Disability Rights Commissioner within the Human Rights Commission. It also announced that the...
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A case of puppy Justice
Justice, the puppy Tauranga woman Laura Eitjes found herself in the limelight last year when she set out on an unintended journey towards justice. While holidaying in 2007, Laura and her friend’s stay...
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Fighting for disability rights
Judy McGregor EEO commissioner Disabled people continue to have to fight for their rights because society denies them justice, respect and a fair go. Recently at the fantastic DPA Conference held in...
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Applications invited: Senior Policy Advisor (Disability), Human Rights...
Human Rights Commission Senior Policy Analyst (Disability), Strategic Team Fixed term to June 2013, part time (0.6 or 0.8 FTE) Auckland, Wellington or Christchurch The Human Rights Commission...
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New Chief Commissioner has experience in disability issues
The new Chief Commissioner of the Human Rights Commission David Rutherford has valuable experience in the disability sector and has expressed his deep interest in ensuring the human rights of disabled...
View ArticleDisability Convention resource available in multiple formats
The Disability Convention was the first human rights convention of the 21st century. The convention affirms the need to ensure human rights are recognised for disability communities. The new resource...
View ArticleHistoric first meeting on Disability Convention monitoring framework
On 12 July, 2011, the first meeting between the Ministerial Committee on Disability Issues and the three agencies charged with monitoring progress on the protection and implementation of disabled...
View ArticleLack of data hinders effective disability policy delivery
The lack of statistics about disabled people in the workplace is a major problem, says Equal Employment Opportunities Commissioner Dr Judy McGregor. “It means we often cannot analyse where disabled...
View ArticleChief Commissioner: disability action plan will pay dividends
Chief Human Rights Commissioner Rosslyn Noonan says the decision to integrate a disability action plan with the rebuilding of Christchurch will continue to pay social and economic dividends for decades...
View ArticleMainstreaming is the theme for International Day of Persons with...
On 3 December, the United Nations asks us all to acknowledge the approximately 15 per cent of the population who are people with disabilities.The day provides opportunities for all stakeholders to...
View ArticleTe Papa and Commission event focuses on disability and Pacific peoples
The Human Rights Commission is joining up with Te Papa museum in Wellington in an event that focuses on disability and Pacific peoples. A film called The Orator is being shown at a theatre in the...
View ArticlePacific advocate for change
One of the key speakers at The Orator’s screening is Pati Umaga. He became a tetraplegic about six years ago after slipping in the bathroom, and is an example of a disabled Pacific person who is a high...
View Article‘Everybody In’ conference draws international interest
This week saw the opening of an inaugural three day conference focusing on disability issues which was held at the University of Otago in Dunedin. Organisers say they had to close registrations early...
View ArticleShakespeare urges need to challenge view of disability
The Everybody In conference includes guest speaker Dr Tom Shakespeare, a social scientist who has researched and taught at the Universities of Cambridge, Sunderland, Leeds and Newcastle. A prolific...
View ArticleNew ‘Disabled Athlete of the Year’ award
The Halberg Trust, organisers of the the annual Westpac Halberg Sports Awards for nearly 50 years, has just introduced a ‘Disabled Sportsperson of the Year’ category and the winner, like those from the...
View ArticleDiscrimination complaints service want to hear from Pacific people
The Human Rights Commission says over the last year it received about 1350 complaints about unlawful discrimination and around 400 of those related to a person’s disability. Of that number just three...
View ArticleJustice is paws ahead
Justice the ‘guide dog in training’ has successfully passed his 20 walk assessment and been formally accepted into formal training with a guide dog trainer. Justice’s story began four years ago when...
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