UNCRPD recommendations: General principles and obligations (Articles 1-4)

This page sets out the Government’s response to recommendations about how disability rights are considered across government.

The UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities recommends that the State party:

CO 6 (a)

Develop strategies to strengthen commitment across all government portfolio areas to ensure disability is recognised as a cross-cutting issue, that meaningful partnerships are developed with organisations of persons with disabilities to ensure close consultation and active involvement in legislative and policy processes to implement the Convention, including co-design, co-production and co-evaluation, and that organisations of persons with disabilities are appropriately resourced to build capacity to participate in partnerships across government portfolio areas.

Response: Whaikaha is leading work responding to CO 6 (a).

 external URL Read recommendation CO 6 (a) on the Human Rights Monitor website external URL

CO 6 (b)

Develop legislative and policy frameworks that reflect the Treaty of Waitangi, the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples to ensure that Māori persons with disabilities are closely consulted and actively involved in decision-making processes and that their right to self-determination is recognised.

Response: No action is currently planned for CO 6 (b).

Read recommendation CO 6 (b) on the Human Rights Monitor website external URL