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From Paul Gibson, Disabilities Commissioner, Human Rights Commission
Tom Shakespeare, world renown disability academic, writer, and activist, and disability advisor to the World Health Organisation was travelling to NZ to be part of the inaugural Disability Studies...
View ArticleCommission follows up on human rights issues in post-quake Canterbury
Bruce Coleman is the project manager for the Human Rights Commission’s work post earthquake project. The Commission regards the post-earthquake situation as a pressing priority for human rights and a...
View ArticleDisabled people remain in limbo
Ruth Jones, a member of the Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority’s community forum, is concerned that too many disabled people remain in limbo one year on. She works with disabled and non-disabled...
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Ruamoko 22/2 the second year: a city disabled?
A year ago, the Welfare Working Group released a report with a strong focus on incentives and sanctions on beneficiaries to reduce benefit uptake. Many disabled people on benefits are already...
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A family’s story
Andrea Lamont’s 19-year-old son Tyler has cerebral palsy and is a wheelchair user. He is also visually impaired and autistic. Since last February’s quake his caregiver has been his mum as employed...
View ArticleNew recreation centre fails first test
If the newly-completed Graham Condon Recreation and Sport Centre in Papanui is an example of how the rebuild is happening, then people with disabilities have cause for concern. Disability groups who...
View ArticleThe Canterbury quake: one year on
This special edition of Manahau looks at how the Christchurch rebuild is responding to the needs and issues of people with disabilities a year on from the earthquake that levelled much of the city and...
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Paul Gibson’s Editorial: New Zealand Sign Language Week
At 5am on 6 February 2012, Aotearoa New Zealand celebrated its founding day in its three official languages. (View this article in NZSL.) Amongst the dawn chorus of priests, politicians, and...
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See how to communicate
A unique nationwide online sign language translation service promises to open a raft of ways for Deaf people to better connect in their work and life. Seeflow, based in Auckland, offers a new service...
View ArticleSpeech not the only way to communicate
Voice Thru Your Hands is a voluntary organisation set up by a Palmerston North mum Alison Attwell to bring the benefits of NZSL to those with delayed speech and other disabilities. (View this article...
View ArticleFirst Deaf MP wants a fully accessible Parliament
The country’s first Deaf MP Mojo Mathers wants to ensure Parliament is fully accessible to all New Zealanders. (View this article in NZSL.) The Green MP in her first term was at the centre of a furore...
View ArticleNew leader for Disabled Persons Assembly
Rachel Noble has been working as the DPA’s chief executive for just a few weeks and says it’s a privilege to be in her new role. Rachel is Deaf and was previously the CEO of Deaf Aotearoa for more...
View ArticleSkytower climber’s feat to raise attention for disabled Samoans
Jordon Milroy is a 22-year-old student of social sciences at the Auckland University of Technology who will be climbing up the Sky Tower last week (17 April). For many non disabled people it would...
View ArticleMarae plan to lift accessibility
The Waikato District Health Board continues to be part of a wider group, including CCS Disability Action, on a project to improve accessibility for marae. “The focus of the project is to enable all...
View ArticleChanges affect Māori mental health services
Funding for Māori mental health services has suffered a downturn says Rangi McLean who works for a Māori public health provider Hāpai Te Hauora Tāpui in Auckland.Rangi says the plan is to consolidate...
View ArticleGaps identified in services for disabled indigenous people
It’s time to look at disabilities from indigenous perspectives, says Dr Huhana Hickey, a lawyer, advocate and disabled Māori woman with multiple sclerosis.“I have recently returned from Toronto where...
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How Karangahape Rd earned its name
Ike Rakena manages Makaurau Marae, left tetraplegic after a rugby league accident, he acknowledged the kaupapa that sees his marae founded by an ancestor with a disability. The ancestor Hape’s story is...
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Manahau, mana hauā, and Matariki
A crescent moon gives a toothless grin from a sinking sky into an icy hauāuru sunset. The star cluster Matariki (and star Puanga) have been seen twinkling before dawn. The transition between years is...
View ArticleNgā Tapuwae o Hape (the Footsteps of Hape)
A two day hui for Māori to discuss disability issues will be held at Makaurau Marae from Friday 22 June in the Auckland suburb of Māngere. Jointly hosted by the Human Rights Commission,the Disabled...
View ArticleDisability advocate honoured in Queen’s Birthday and Diamond Jubilee Honours
The Commission would like to congratulate Chief Executive of DPA, Gary Williams of Ngāti Porou, who has been recognised in the recent Queen’s Birthday and Diamond Jubilee Honours by being awarded the...
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