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.