The Human Rights Commission is to investigate schools' anti-bullying policies to see whether children's rights to safety are being protected.The move follows calls for a national inquiry by parents of bullying victims at Hutt Valley High School. The...
The Human Rights Commission is to investigate schools' anti-bullying policies to see whether children's rights to safety are being protected.The move follows calls for a national inquiry by parents of bullying victims at Hutt Valley High School. The...
[24 June 2008] - Green New Zealand MP Sue Bradford, who pushed through the anti-smacking legislation last year, says new police data on the impact of the law should silence its critics.The police review of child assault complaints over a six...
The General Assembly,Reaffirming the purposes and principles contained in the Charter of the United Nations, including developing friendly relations among nations based on respect for the principle of equal rights and self-determination of peoples,...
[14 April 2008] - Child poverty is finally on the way down in two of the three rich countries where it increased the most in the 1980s and 90s - Britain and New Zealand.The chief executive of Britain's Child Poverty Action Group, Kate Green, says...
In Arabic[3 April 2008] – UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has welcomed the entry into force of the first international treaty on the human rights of persons with disabilities, after the required twentieth country ratified the landmark...
This book traces the history of New Zealand’s long journey towards the emergence of our children into full citizenship. It explores key aspects of the intense debate that gripped the nation, including the growing recognition of children rights...
[21 February 2008] - Fears that human rights education for children will undermine parents and families have been quashed by strong evidence that it has the opposite effect, according to visiting Canadian researchers."Children who learn their...
[22 January 2008] - A Human Rights Commission report which calls for greater recognition of the rights of transgender people found evidence of discrimination against children especially worrying. The report, which follows an 18-month inquiry,...
The General Assembly,Recalling all its previous resolutions on the rights of the child, in particular its resolution 54/149 of 17 December 1999, in which it strongly supported the work of the open- nded inter-sessional working groups and urged them...
