The draft sixth periodic report of New Zealand - Children’s Convention from the United Nations

The State party is requested to submit in writing the information requested below (21,200 words maximum), if possible before 30 June 2021. The replies should take into consideration the Committee’s recommendations contained in its concluding observations (CRC/C/NZL/CO/5) adopted on 30 September 2016. The Committee may take up all aspects of children’s rights set out in the Convention and the Optional Protocols thereto during the dialogue with the State party.

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Report contents

• List of acronyms
• New developments
• Rights under the Convention and Optional Protocols:
  • General measures of implementation:
    • Reservations, legislation, policy and strategy
    • Allocation of resources
    • Data collection
    • Children’s rights and the business sector
  • Definition of the child
  • General principles:
    • Non-discrimination
    • Best interests of the child
    • Right to life
    • Respect for the views of the child
  • Civil Rights and Freedoms:
    • Right to identity
    • Right to privacy
    • Access to appropriate information
  • Violence against children:
    • Freedom of the child from all forms of violence
    • Harmful practices
  • Family environment and alternative care:
    • Family environment
    • Children deprived of a family environment
    • Adoption
  • Children with disabilities
  • Basic health and welfare:
    • Health, including mental health, and health services
    • Climate change
    • Standard of living
  • Education, leisure and cultural activities
  • Special protection measures:
    • Asylum-seeking, refugee and migrant children
    • Children belonging to minority or indigenous groups
    • Economic exploitation, including child labour
    • Administration of child justice
  • Optional Protocol on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography
  • Optional Protocol on the involvement of children in armed conflict
• Statistical information and data