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Arthritis Staff Conference 8 November 2013

Arthritis Staff Conference 8 November 2013. Paul Gibson Disability Rights Commissioner Human Rights Commission. Twenty years ago. Human Rights Act new grounds for complaint Disability Sexual orientation. Your human rights and making complaints.

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Arthritis Staff Conference 8 November 2013

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  1. Arthritis Staff Conference8 November 2013 Paul Gibson Disability Rights Commissioner Human Rights Commission

  2. Twenty years ago • Human Rights Act new grounds for complaint • Disability • Sexual orientation

  3. Your human rights and making complaints • A guide for disabled people and their families

  4. Range of Processes includes: • ‘Enquires’ • Complaints of discrimination • Class action • Mediation

  5. Range of Processes includes: continued • Litigation • Broader Human Rights matters • Powers of Inquiry • Part 1A (government) and part 2 • Human rights issues are broader than discrimination

  6. Promotion, protection, monitoring human rights approach • Accountability against international conventions • Participation of effected in decision making • Balancing rights, prioritising vulnerable

  7. University course shifts to inaccessible premises • Disability plan across whole university • Funding to all tertiary education

  8. TV channel made comments People First said were insulting • HRC helped them go to Broadcasting Standards Authority • Channel forced to apologise

  9. Customer found no wheelchair accessible counter • At mediation, organisation agreed to make accessible; and • To better understand disability perspective; and • To make all new counters accessible; and • Apologised and made payment

  10. Resolving issues for individuals is important • Changing systems to prevent discrimination and other human rights violations is the bigger goal

  11. What are Human Rights? • ‘Respect for the inherent dignity of all people is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world’ • ‘he tangata, he tangata, he tangata’

  12. New Zealand’s Human Rights Successes • Treaty • Peace • Women • Social Welfare and Support • Transgender • Disability

  13. United Nations Disability Convention • New Zealand’s role in development • Robert Martin • Kiwis with learning intellectual disability are global leaders, worthy of a Nobel Peace Prize

  14. International Comparisons • Kimberley South Africa • Apartheid, truth and reconciliation • Kimberley Australia

  15. International Comparisons - continued • Stolen generations, sorry • Kimberley New Zealand • Institutionalisation • As yet no apology

  16. Violence, Abuse, Neglect, Bullying • Of disabled people in residential families • In relationships • Of students with arthritis in schools

  17. How to make disability issues a priority • Celebrate • Acknowledge past • We need to create the interest, the energy, the resources for disability issues today

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