Wednesday, 20 January 2021, 2:02 pm
A new report from New Zealand’s Independent Monitoring
Mechanism (IMM) highlights the realities and challenges
disabled people faced during the COVID-19
emergency.
The report, Making
Disability Rights Real in a Pandemic, Te Whakatinana i ngā
Tika Hauātanga i te wā o te Urutā, examines New
Zealand’s adherence to the United Nations Convention on
the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (Disability
Convention) during the COVID-19 emergency from late March to
mid-June 2020. New Zealand’s IMM partners are the Disabled
People’s Organisations (DPO) Coalition, the Ombudsman, and
the Human Rights Commission (HRC).
At the centre of