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Explore the history of human rights including information about human rights in New Zealand. SCIS no: 1923468

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Human rights are the rights and freedoms that every person ought to enjoy. Civil and political rights largely define what governments should not do to people, such as treat them cruelly, detain the...

Human rights

Digital cartoons by Chicane on political and social issues in New Zealand and internationally. Title transcribed from item. Quantity: 2 digital cartoon(s).

What human rights

What human rights

Poster featuring printed excerpts from New Zealand political parties (National and Labour), alongside current laws. A large red X stamped over the top. Text top and bottom reads "What human rights ...

Queer rights are human rights

Queer rights are human rights

Images relating to the Homosexual Law Reform,1985, and ongoing LBGTQI activism. NZ has grown up a bit since the 80s, there's still lots of work to do though...

Human rights for gangs

Human rights for gangs

Paula Bennett says criminals have fewer human rights. So will National's new policy for tackling methamphetamine encroach on gang member's rights?

Aussie flouts human rights

Aussie flouts human rights

Digital cartoon by Malcolm Evans on political and social issues in New Zealand and internationally. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Australia's deportation policy

Australia's deportation policy

A set of resources on the impact of Australia's recent deportation policy on New Zealanders settled there.

Images on human rights

Images on human rights

A set of images on human rights.

Brutal seas: meet the men enslaved to catch our fish - Pt 3

Brutal seas: meet the men enslaved to catch our fish - Pt 3

Investigator Tim McKinnel has spent time undercover investigating human rights abuses aboard fishing boats. Videographer - Luke McPake Producer - Tess McClure

World Human Rights Day

World Human Rights Day

Human Rights Day is celebrated annually across the world on 10 December. The date was chosen to honor the United Nations General Assembly's adoption and proclamation, on 10 December 1948, of the Un...

Human friendship

Human friendship

A painting by Nigel Brown.

United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child

United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child

New Zealand is a party to a range of United Nations human-rights treaties. Among these is the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, ratified by New Zealand in 1993. While the treaty...

Research papers

Making disability rights real

This report reflects the information and data currently available on disabled people. The partners in the monitoring mechanism agreed to focus on certain aspects of the...

Research papers

Disability Rights in Aotearoa New Zealand - 2010 Convention Coalition Report

The aim of the monitoring project is to provide robust information that Disabled People’s Organisations (DPOs) and government can use to formulate better disability policy. The project...

The most peaceful nation?

The most peaceful nation?

New Zealand has an international reputation as a peaceful nation with a good human-rights record. This is reflected in this 2010 cartoon, which appeared after the Institute for Economics and Peace,...

2017 Women's March

2017 Women's March

On 21 January 2017, millions of people around the world, including New Zealand, took part in the largest global human rights demonstration ever, the Women’s March.

Letter from Tom T K Poata to Trevor Richards

Letter from Tom T K Poata to Trevor Richards

Letter from Tom Poata on behalf of the Maori Organisation on Human Rights to Trevor Richards of HART Quantity: 1 piece. Physical Description: Typescript letter 205mm x 260mm

Human Rights Tribunal rules Fairfax cartoons 'not unlawful'

The cartoons, about school breakfasts, were unlikely to "cause hostility against or bring into contempt" Māori and Pacific peoples, the tribunal found.

US and UK undermine human rights

US and UK undermine human rights

The two champions of democracy are being singled out for actively undermining human rights law in their so called war on terror.

Annual Report On Human Rights

Annual Report On Human Rights

The study was compiled with the help of American embassies using information given by governments, NGOs, academics and the media.

Civil rights advocates: protection orders breach human rights

Civil rights advocates: protection orders breach human rights

Civil rights advocates and lawyers say a new law to keep the worst violent and sexual offenders locked up indefinitely would breach international human rights legislation.

First human trafficking conviction in NZ

First human trafficking conviction in NZ

Faroz Ali has been found guilty of human trafficking - the first such conviction in New Zealand - and convicted of dozens of other charges. RNZ reporter Edward Gay joins Checkpoint.

Human Rights Commission launches racism campaign

Human Rights Commission launches racism campaign

The Human Rights Commission has launched New Zealand's first-ever nationwide anti-racism campaign and is asking people to share their experiences of racism.

Torture in New Zealand prisons : a briefing / editor: Ti Lamusse.

Human rights in New Zealand

Human rights in New Zealand

Human rights stories in New Zealand which touch upon civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights including discrimination against race and women, rights of the child, rights of persons ...

Te Whakapuakitanga o te Ao mō ngā Tika Tangata

Universal Declaration of Human Rights Booklet – Māori.

The Fight to Vote School Journal Curriculum Level 4: May: 2017

Susan Paris tells the story of women’s fight and victory to vote in New Zealand.

Fault lines: Human Rights in New Zealand

A report on the weak areas of New Zealand and human rights.

Debating human rights

Debating Human Rights – universal or relative to culture?

Philosophy of human rights

Philosophical basis and content of the doctrine of human rights.

Human rights speeches

Human rights speeches that changed The world.

World report 2018

Human Rights Watch summarises human rights issues in more than 90 countries.

Campaigners for human rights

Famous campaigners who fought for human and civil rights.

Human rights stories

Real life situations that reason why human rights is important.

Poems on human rights

Powerful poems on human rights issues.

Human rights heroes of 2017

So. 2017. Quite a year, right? For all the really, really, really bad things that went down, some good ones happened too.

Bringing to life humans rights educational package

The Bringing Human Rights to Life Education Package is offered as an aid to educators who teach ages 17 and up in a classroom.

People who fought for human rights / civil rights

A selection of famous people who fought for, campaigned and promoted human/civil rights and freedom.

8 great heroes of human rights

From Nelson Mandela to Mahatma Gandhi to Jimmy Carter, these tireless advocates have made the world a better place.

Why Saudi Arabia is about to judge NZ's human rights record

Justice Minister Andrew Little expects New Zealand's next United Nations human rights review, being partly overseen by Saudi Arabia, will show improvements from 2014.

Why we should care about human rights

The Universal Declaration emerged from the horrors of World War II.

30 cartoons to illustrate the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

The UN Human Rights Office together with the Cartoon Movement celebrate the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by launching a cartoon contest.

International human rights legislation

The Universal Periodic Review is a process in which the human rights situation in all Member States of the United Nations is reviewed by the Human Rights Council once every four to five years.

New Zealand and the United Nations – Universal Declaration of Human Rights

On 10 December 1948 the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

The case against human rights

Many believe that international human rights law is one of our greatest moral achievements.

What are human rights

This simplified version of the 30 Articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights has been created especially for young people.

United for human rights

What are human rights?

A Pinterest board with human- rights related images and slogans.

Amnesty International

Browse our research and campaigning across the world, with all the latest news, blogs, and reports.

Human rights explained

Everything you need to know about your human rights and why they matter.

Human rights in 2066

Human rights may be based upon values that have ancient origins…. but this does not mean they are static and never changing.

Human Rights - Artwork. Human rights - artwork https://www.pinterest.nz/ledo514/human-rights-artwork/?lp=true Human Rights - Artwork

What are the universal human rights?

The basic idea of human rights is that each one of us, no matter who we are or where we are born, is entitled to the same basic rights and freedoms.

Three fundamental freedoms

A 1949 newspaper article looking at the 3 fundamental human rights and freedoms that need to be respected.

Human rights data

Charts, maps and data on human rights issues.

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is a milestone document in the history of human rights.

UN to scrutinise NZ's human rights record

New Zealand's human rights record - including the high rate of family violence and a disparity in health outcomes for Maori versus non-Maori - will come under scrutiny from the UN Human Rights Coun...

Know your rights

In New Zealand, the rights of individuals are protected by a wide range of laws.

New Zealand has a strong history of protecting and promoting human rights both at home and internationally.

Human rights and freedoms

Human rights are the basic rights and freedoms we’re all entitled to, no matter what our age, ethnicity, culture, religion or sex.

The Human Rights Commission

The Human Rights Commission was set up in 1977 and works under the Human Rights Act 1993. Our purpose is to promote and protect the human rights of all people in Aotearoa New Zealand.

Updated human rights news

Rights are human rights' placard

Women's March outside Parliament buildings, Wellington, featuring 'Women's Rights Are Human Rights' placard

Leaflet, 'March for Human Rights'

A short history of human rights

The belief that everyone, by virtue of her or his humanity, is entitled to certain human rights is fairly new.

"We might strike special medal for Robert Mugabe... for taking world spotlight off our human rights record." 9 July, 2008

China’s special medal for Robert Mugabe

China was heavily criticised for human rights abuses during the preparation of the 2008 Olympic Games. The spotlight was on China until Robert Mugabe came under fire from Human Rights Watch for a c...

New Zealand Citizens All Black Tour Association :All Black - Maori issue; sign the protest petition against racial discrimination. [1959]

All Black – Māori protest racial discrimination

At one stage Apartheid was so predominant in South Africa that it was compulsory for visiting sports teams to be all-white only. Amidst protests, New Zealand did send a rugby team to South Africa i...

Bromhead, Peter, 1933-:Human rights... 18 November 2013

Human rights issues in Sri Lanka

New Zealand Prime Minister John Key does the balancing act on his way to Sri Lanka for the most controversial Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in 2013. India and Canada boycotted the meeti...

WOMEN'S SALARIES. (Otago Daily Times 21-9-1895)

Women’s salaries

An indignant woman raises the unfairness of the gender pay gap with the Otago Education Board in 1895. Women teachers were to take home £200 less than men. In 1967 the United Nations adopted the De...

"No, please, don't take our waterboard... We can't live without it!! Noooo!!!" "I see Obama hasn't completely abandoned torture..." 24 January 2009.

Torture at Guantanamo Bay prison

Guantanamo Bay, a US prison for militants and suspected terrorists captured by the United States received worldwide condemnation from human rights organisations for various forms of torture, one of...

United Nations concern over the rights of Kiwi children. 21 January 2011

Concern over rights of Kiwi children

The Convention on the Rights of the Child was adopted by the United Nations in 1989 and by New Zealand in 1993. It includes civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, and sets out in d...

"Where's this person who wants to see me about facilities for the disabled?" "They're trying to get their wheelchair up the stairs." 24 July, 2006.

Improving facilities for the disabled

The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities was adopted by the United Nations on December 2006 and ratified by New Zealand in September 2008. This human right makes disability discri...

Winter, Mark 1958- :Syria - human rites. 28 May 2012

Syria – human rites

This image is about human rights violations in Syria since the pro-democracy protests in 2011. In the ensuing civil war, detention, torture, enforced disappearance, evacuations, killings and chemi...