NZ UPR: Submissions and resources

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Universal Periodic Review of the NZ government
Submissions, reports, and resources

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Follow up to NZ's Universal Periodic Review - includes NGO oral interventions at the UN Human Rights Council session when NZ's outcome report was adopted, and NGO written statements submitted prior to the session

Follow up to NZ's Universal Periodic Review, July 2009 - the NZ goverment's response to the Universal Periodic Review Outcome Report

NZ's Universal Periodic Review, May 2009 - includes the Universal Periodic Review Outcome Report, media releases, live webcasts, and advance questions from UN member states
NGO feedback on the government's draft report, March 2009

NZ government's draft report, February 2009

UN documents for NZ's Universal Periodic Review, February 2009

NGO submissions to the Universal Periodic Review, November 2008

Other resources - includes a presentation on the combined NGO submissions, November 2008; and a paper on the Universal Periodic Review and the Pacific, December 2008

Information about the Universal Periodic Review

Follow up to NZ's Universal Periodic Review

NGO oral interventions to the Human Rights Council, 24 September 2009:
- Indigenous World Association and International Indian Treaty Council on behalf of Aotearoa Indigenous Rights Trust and Peace Movement Aotearoa
- Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, coordinated by Peace Movement Aotearoa, with WILPF Aotearoa, Action for Children and Youth Aotearoa, Aotearoa Indigenous Rights Trust, and Human Rights Foundation
- Amnesty International
NGO written statements to the Human Rights Council, 8 September 2009:
- International Indian Treaty Council, on behalf of Aotearoa Indigenous Rights Trust and Peace Movement Aotearoa
- Amnesty International
NZ goverment's response to the Universal Periodic Review Outcome Report, July 2009

NZ's Universal Periodic Review, May 2009

Report: Outcome of the Universal Periodic Review of New Zealand, 11 May 2009

Momentum Needed Following UN Report, Te Runanga o Ngai Tahu, 13 May 2009

UN Recommends Better Protection of the Human Rights of Maori, Aotearoa Indigenous Rights Trust and Peace Movement Aotearoa, 12 May 2009

Live webcasts

Preliminary overview of the Universal Periodic Review of the NZ government's human rights record, 7 May 2009

Caritas looking for New Zealand to sharpen up on human rights, Caritas, 7 May 2009

Questions submitted in advance by UN member states + Addendum 1

NZ government's final report, April 2009

NGO feedback on the government's draft report

Combined NGO feedback:

On children's rights, coordinated by Action for Children and Youth Aotearoa

On indigenous peoples' rights and the Treaty of Waitangi, coordinated by the Aotearoa Indigenous Rights Trust and Peace Movement Aotearoa

Single NGO feedback:

Amnesty International Aotearoa New Zealand

Caritas

Human Rights Foundation

Indonesia Human Rights Committee

Women's Studies Association

UN documents for NZ's Universal Periodic Review

Compilation documents:

Compilation of UN information on New Zealand, Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, February 2009

Summary of stakeholders' submissions, Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, February 2009

Submission:

Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, submission, November 2008

NGO submissions to the Universal Periodic Review

Combined NGO submissions:

On children's rights, coordinated by Action for Children and Youth Aotearoa

On economic, social, cultural, civil and political rights, including immigration issues, and the human rights of refugees and asylum seekers, coordinated by the Human Rights Foundation

On indigenous peoples' rights and the Treaty of Waitangi + Annex A, coordinated by the Aotearoa Indigenous Rights Trust and Peace Movement Aotearoa

Overarching NGO combined coalitions submission, coordinated by the Human Rights Foundation

Single NGO submissions:

Caritas

Other NGO submissions are available here

Other resources

Presentation on the combined NGO UPR submissions - power point - pdf
for the ANZTSR Conference, Human Rights Foundation and Peace Movement Aotearoa, 25 November 2008

Will the Universal Periodic Review make a difference in the Pacific? Natalie Baird, 10 December 2008

NZ's performance on racial discrimination | Peace Movement Aotearoa