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2024 UN CEDAW releases Concluding Observations on NZ's 9th CEDAW report
UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW publishes Concluding observations on the 9th periodic report of New Zealand's progress on the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW/C/NZL/9). View the Cabinet paper (August 2025) and New Zealand’s Human Rights Monitor website for the government's response to recommendations
2024 Let's talk about it: Review of relationships and sexuality education published
Let's talk about it: Review of relationships and sexuality education (Education Review Office | Te Tari Arotake Mātauranga, 2024) report published
2024 Strengthening and expanding local and regional family violence and sexual violence networks report published
Strengthening and expanding local and regional family violence and sexual violence networks (New Zealand Family Violence Clearinghouse, 2024) report, commissioned by Te Puna Aonui, published
2024 Te Whāriki Manawāhine o Hauraki report published
He whare, he taonga: Connecting mahi tūkino and housing poverty in Hauraki: Wāhine give voice to compassionate solutions (Te Whāriki Manawāhine Research, 2024) report published
2024 Sport Integrity Commission | Te Kahu Raunui launched
Sport Integrity Commission | Te Kahu Raunui launched. The Commission is an independent Crown entity tasked with promoting and protecting the safety and well-being of participants and the fairness of competition in the sport and recreation sector. This includes protecting participants from abuse and harm.
2024 Online misogyny and violent extremism report published
Online misogyny and violent extremism: Understanding the landscape (Te Mana Whakaatu | Classifications Office, 2024) report published
2024 Nga Vaka o Kāiga Tapu Champions of Change initiative launched
The Nga Vaka o Kāiga Tapu Champions of Change initiative is aimed at fostering holistic and culturally embedded social environments that empower Pacific peoples to address and prevent family violence by partnering with Pacific ethnic specific communities.
2024 National Rape & Sexual Abuse Crisis Line continues
National Rape & Sexual Abuse Crisis Line - 0800 88 33 00 (formally the National Support Line for Survivors of Sexual Abuse & Their Whanau) is now administered by the Wairarapa Rape & Sexual Abuse Collective Inc. following the closure of the National Collective of Rape Crisis and Related Groups of Aotearoa
2024 Whanaketia, final report of the Abuse in Care Inquiry released
Whanaketia: Through pain and trauma, from darkness into light, the multi-part final report of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Historical Abuse in State Care and in the Care of Faith-based Institutions (Abuse in Care Inquiry) released on 24 July 2024
2024 Public apology to survivors of abuse in care delivered
The Prime Minister and seven public sector leaders formally apologised to survivors of abuse in care on 12 November 2024, following the release of the final Abuse in Care Inquiry report in July 2024
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