Making disability rights real in a pandemic | Te whakatinana i ngā tika hauātanga i te wā o te urutā: The Independent Monitoring Mechanism’s report on the New Zealand Government’s response to the COVID-19 emergency
Making disability rights real in a pandemic | Te whakatinana i ngā tika hauātanga i te wā o te urutā: The Independent Monitoring Mechanism’s report on the New Zealand Government’s response to the COVID-19 emergency
DPO Coalition, Ombudsman and Human Rights Commission
- Wellington, New Zealand : Office of the Ombudsman, 2021
- electronic document (74 pages) ; PDF. Other formats available
The COVID-19 emergency and the new Alert Level system required people to change their everyday lives suddenly to prevent the spread of COVID-19. New Zealanders had to physically distance; confine themselves to their homes, sometimes for weeks on end; and radically change the way they worked and learned. While disabled people voiced some positive experiences of the COVID-19 emergency, the restrictions exposed, and exacerbated, some existing inequities in disabled people’s enjoyment of human rights.[i]
This report directly reflects disabled New Zealanders’ experiences of the COVID-19 emergency and details areas where the Government did well and where improvements are needed. Based on all the information analysed, the IMM considers there are seven key areas where urgent attention is required. (From the Executive summary). Record #7005
978-0-473-55900-7
COVID-19
DISABLED PEOPLE
HUMAN RIGHTS
MĀORI
PANDEMICS
SOCIAL SERVICES
SUPPORT SERVICES
KOWHEORI-19
MATE KORONA
MATE URUTĀ
RĀTONGA KI TE IWI
TĀNGATA WHAIKAHA
TOKO I TE ORA
NEW ZEALAND
The COVID-19 emergency and the new Alert Level system required people to change their everyday lives suddenly to prevent the spread of COVID-19. New Zealanders had to physically distance; confine themselves to their homes, sometimes for weeks on end; and radically change the way they worked and learned. While disabled people voiced some positive experiences of the COVID-19 emergency, the restrictions exposed, and exacerbated, some existing inequities in disabled people’s enjoyment of human rights.[i]
This report directly reflects disabled New Zealanders’ experiences of the COVID-19 emergency and details areas where the Government did well and where improvements are needed. Based on all the information analysed, the IMM considers there are seven key areas where urgent attention is required. (From the Executive summary). Record #7005
978-0-473-55900-7
COVID-19
DISABLED PEOPLE
HUMAN RIGHTS
MĀORI
PANDEMICS
SOCIAL SERVICES
SUPPORT SERVICES
KOWHEORI-19
MATE KORONA
MATE URUTĀ
RĀTONGA KI TE IWI
TĀNGATA WHAIKAHA
TOKO I TE ORA
NEW ZEALAND