A new report from New Zealand’s Independent Monitoring Mechanism (IMM) highlights the realities and challenges disabled people faced during the COVID-19 emergency.
The report, Making Disability Rights Real in a Pandemic, Te Whakatinana i ngā Tika Hauātanga i te wā o te Urutā, examines New Zealand’s adherence to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (Disability Convention) during the COVID-19 emergency from late March to mid-June 2020. New Zealand’s IMM partners are the Disabled People’s Organisations (DPO) Coalition, the Ombudsman, and the Human Rights Commission (HRC).
At the centre of this report are the stories of disabled people as they lived through this troubling time.
Wednesday, 20 January 2021, 2:02 pm
A new report from New Zealand’s Independent Monitoring
Mechanism (IMM) highlights the realities and challenges
disabled people faced during the COVID-19
emergency.
The report, Making
Disability Rights Real in a Pandemic, Te Whakatinana i ngā
Tika Hauātanga i te wā o te Urutā, examines New
Zealand’s adherence to the United Nations Convention on
the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (Disability
Convention) during the COVID-19 emergency from late March to
mid-June 2020. New Zealand’s IMM partners are the Disabled
People’s Organisations (DPO) Coalition, the Ombudsman, and
the Human Rights Commission (HRC).
At the centre of
A braille version of this report is available on request via email.
Executive Summary
The COVID-19 emergency and the new Alert Level system required people to change their everyday lives suddenly to prevent the spread of COVID-19. New Zealanders had to physically distance; confine themselves to their homes, sometimes for weeks on end; and radically change the way they worked and learned. While disabled people voiced some positive experiences of the COVID-19 emergency, the restrictions exposed, and exacerbated, some existing inequities in disabled people’s enjoyment of human rights.[i]
Making Disability Rights Real in a Pandemic
Te Whakatinana i ngā Tika Hauātanga i te w
Press Release – Office of the Ombudsman A new report from New Zealands Independent Monitoring Mechanism (IMM) highlights the realities and challenges disabled people faced during the COVID-19 emergency. The report, Making Disability Rights Real in a Pandemic, Te Whakatinana i ng Tika …
A new report from New Zealand’s Independent Monitoring Mechanism (IMM) highlights the realities and challenges disabled people faced during the COVID-19 emergency.
The report, Making Disability Rights Real in a Pandemic, Te Whakatinana i ngā Tika Hauātanga i te wā o te Urutā, examines New Zealand’s adherence to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (Disability Convention) during the COVID-19 emergency from late March to mid-June 2020. New Zealand’s IMM partners are the Disabled People’s Organisations (DPO) Coalition, the Ombudsman, and the Human Rights Commission (HRC).
Press Release – Office of the Ombudsman
Chief Ombudsman Peter Boshier says holding government to account is never more important than in a time of crisis.
Mr Boshier says the highlight of the year ending 30 June 2020 was managing a busy, and expanding, programme of work, while providing independent oversight of the impact of government actions to combat COVID-19.
“The pandemic which swept the world in 2020 is undoubtedly the defining event of the past year. It has also further defined the role of Ombudsman.”
Mr Boshier says the need is stronger than ever to encourage public trust in government by making sure people are treated fairly.