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But after serving the maximum two terms, she was not replaced.
Chief Human Rights Commissioner Paul Hunt has also implored the government to appoint an Indigenous Rights Commissioner, doing so since 2019. Nobody in government is saying this is a bad idea. What they re saying is they don t have the money, he said. It s extremely disappointing.
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Chief Human Rights Commissioner Paul Hunt says he has been urging the government to appoint an Indigenous Rights Commissioner to an empty seat since 2019. Contemporary Aotearoa New Zealand requires a full-time race relations commissioner and a full-time indigenous peoples rights commissioner, Hunt said. One race relations commissioner responsible for all ethnic minority communities and tangata whenua was out-of-date .
He Puapua report to strengthen Māori rights.
Former Indigenous Rights Commissioner Karen Johansen, of Gisborne, Rongowhakaata, advocated for the human rights of tangata whenua between 2008 and 2017.
Photo: LDR / Alice Angeloni
The He Puapua report outlines policy options to give effect to the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP), which New Zealand committed to under the previous National government.
Earlier this month Māori Development Minister Willie Jackson laid out the government s next steps to meeting the declaration, with no allowance for a new Indigenous Rights Commissioner.
Aotearoa s only Indigenous Rights Commissioner Karen Johansen wants the role reinstated as part of the government s implementation of UNDRIP.