Story: Human rights
Page 5. External links and sources
More links and websites
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Human rights
New Zealand’s commitment to international human rights, on the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade’s website.
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Human Rights Commission
The Human Rights Commission works to safeguard human rights in New Zealand.
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International human rights instruments
Information on the international human-rights treaties of the United Nations that New Zealand has ratified.
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New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990
Information about the Bill of Rights, from the Ministry of Justice.
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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.
How to cite this page
Paul Rishworth, Human rights, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/story/192415/sources (accessed 4 June 2026).
Story by Paul Rishworth, published 28 November 2011, updated 1 June 2016.