Story: Human rights

More links and websites

• Human rights

  New Zealand’s commitment to international human rights, on the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade’s website.

• Human Rights Commission

  The Human Rights Commission works to safeguard human rights in New Zealand.

• International human rights instruments

  Information on the international human-rights treaties of the United Nations that New Zealand has ratified.

• New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990

  Information about the Bill of Rights, from the Ministry of Justice.

• United Nations: human rights

  Information about human rights, from the United Nations.

More suggestions and sources

• Bedggood, Margaret, and Kris Gledhill, eds. Law into action: economic, social and cultural rights in Aotearoa New Zealand. Wellington: Thomson Reuters, 2011.
• Lauren, Paul Gordon. The evolution of international human rights: visions seen. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998.
• Rishworth, Paul, and others. The New Zealand Bill of Rights. Auckland: Oxford University Press, 2003.
• Simpson, Alfred William Brian. Human rights and the end of empire: Britain and the genesis of the European Convention. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.