The United Nations Committee Against Torture (UNCAT) has called on
the New Zealand Government to respect their obligations to the
Convention Against Torture on the matter of failing to provide adequate
redress to over a thousand people who were historically abused as
children while in NZ Staterun institutions.
The historic abuse claims processes, which are handled by New Zealand’s Ministry of Social Development, were questioned by several NZ groups, including NGOs and NZ’s national human rights body, who submitted shadow reports to the UNCAT for New Zealand’s 6th Periodic Review before the Committee in May 2015. These reports raised a number of serious human rights concerns including long delays in settling claims, the failure of the NZ Government to provide an independent and impartial investigation of cases of historic abuse, and failing to provide adequate redress to victims of abuse.
http://newzealandchildabuse.com/uncat-finds-new-zealand-in-violation-of-historic-abuse-claimants-human-rights/
The historic abuse claims processes, which are handled by New Zealand’s Ministry of Social Development, were questioned by several NZ groups, including NGOs and NZ’s national human rights body, who submitted shadow reports to the UNCAT for New Zealand’s 6th Periodic Review before the Committee in May 2015. These reports raised a number of serious human rights concerns including long delays in settling claims, the failure of the NZ Government to provide an independent and impartial investigation of cases of historic abuse, and failing to provide adequate redress to victims of abuse.
http://newzealandchildabuse.com/uncat-finds-new-zealand-in-violation-of-historic-abuse-claimants-human-rights/