The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination has completed its consideration of the combined eighteenth to twentieth periodic report of New Zealand.
The Committee experts noted that New Zealand had implemented most of the recommendations made during the last review.
It asked questions about the status of the Treaty of Waitangi in domestic law, steps taken to tackle the problem of structural discrimination against Maori and Pacific people, the vulnerable state of the Maori and other community languages, the problem of hate language, and the situation of migrant workers.
The Committee also raised issues related to the protection of Maori rights, the transposition into domestic legislation of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, the effects of Christchurch earthquakes and of the global economic crisis on vulnerable groups, the over-representation of Maori in New Zealand’s prison population, and disparities among different ethnic groups in education and employment.
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