Committee on the Covenant on Economic Social and Cultural Rights Shadow Report: Aotearoa New Zealand
Year: 2018
Type: other
Abstract: A recent analysis by Came, Cornes and McCreanor (2018) of public health policy from 2006-2016 showed only 12 policy documents out of 49 developed by the Ministry of Health mentioned the Treaty/te Tiriti and/or treaty principles.The references were categorised from rhetorical, aspirational, practical through to substantive.The majority of the references were at the lower level of rhetorical or aspirational statements.Health policy needs to be strengthened to fulfil the government's obligations under te Tiriti. Recommendations:-All social and economic policy needs explicitly articulate how it fulfils the NZ government's te Tiriti o Waitangi obligations -detailing how policy addresses each article or provision of the Māori text -to inform prioritisation and investment decisions.B. Article 2 (1) Right to freely dispose of natural wealth and resources Example 1).Ihumātao Recently the NZ government supported the plans of transnational corporation Fletcher Residential Ltd to build high-priced dwellings on confiscated land at Ihumātao, South Auckland.The Government used the discriminatory provisions of the Housing Accords and Special Housing Areas Act 2013 to establish Special Housing Area 62 (SHA62) on this land.
Language: English
Subfield: Law
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2981090053