The Commission is New Zealand's National Human Rights Institution and holds an A accreditation which allows speaking rights at UN Convention and Treaty bodies. The New Zealand Human Rights Commission is an independent crown entity, and operates under the mandate of the Human Rights Act 1993. On social media, we aim to create a positive space where people are able to publicly contribute their views to this page, without fear of abuse, harassment or exposure to offensive or inappropriate content. When contributing your views, please ensure that you:
- protect your personal privacy and that of others by not including personal information about yourself or about others in your posts, (such as names, email addresses, private addresses, phone numbers or other identifying information);
- represent your own views and not impersonate or falsely represent any other person;
- do not abuse, harass or threaten others;
- do not post anything which: racially or religiously vilifies others, incites, induces, aids, assists, promotes, causes, instructs or permits violence, discrimination, harassment, victimisation or hatred towards others, or is likely to humiliate or intimidate others, particularly on the basis of their s*x, gender identity, race, colour, national origin, religion, ethnicity, age, s*xual orientation or any disability;
- do not make defamatory or libelous comments;
- do not use hateful, obscene or offensive language;
- do not post material that infringes the intellectual property rights of others;
- do not post multiple versions of the same view; and
- do not promote commercial interests in your posts. Posts may be edited by the moderator for length or to remove unacceptable parts of contributions. Repeated abuses of the Acceptable Use Policy will result in being banned from the page.
