Appendix 1: Resources and links

IMM guides and information

Making disability rights real leaflet

https://www.hrc.co.nz/your-rights/people-disabilities/our-work/ making-disability-rights-real/

This short, plain language leaflet explains how New Zealand’s Independent Monitoring Mechanism (IMM) is made up and what it does.

Reasonable accommodation of people with disabilities in New Zealand guide

http://www.ombudsman.parliament.nz/resources-and- publications/guides/disability-rights-guides

This guide assists disabled people to understand their rights to ask for reasonable accommodation. It also informs employers, state sector agencies, and other persons providing services to the public, of their obligation to provide reasonable accommodation to persons with disabilities where necessary.

New Zealand

Auckland Disability Law

http://aucklanddisabilitylaw.org.nz

Auckland Disability Law works to support disabled people living in the region to access legal services and information.

Complaint Line

http://www.complaintline.org.nz/

Complaint Line is an easy to use online tool to find out contact information about key disputes resolution and investigation agencies in New Zealand. It offers three ways to search for this information.

Community Law Centres

http://communitylaw.org.nz/our-law-centres/

Community Law Centres offer free legal information throughout New Zealand.

The following links to information on Community Law website about the UNCRPD:

http://communitylaw.org.nz/community-law-manual/chapter-15- disability-rights/rights-that-are-recognised-internationally-the-un- disability-convention/enforcing-your-rights-under-the-disability- convention/

Office for Disability Issues

http://www.odi.govt.nz/

The Office for Disability Issues is a strategic and whole-of- government focused policy group, located within the Ministry
of Social Development. It provides dedicated policy support to the Minister for Disability Issues. This Office is also a focal point in government on disability issues.

International

IMM for Northern Ireland

www.equality.ni.org

The IMM for Northern Ireland have produced two helpful resources about the CRPD-OP. These are available in PDF format:

• Guide to making a complaint under the Convention

• A plain language version of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and Optional Protocol.

  International Disability Alliance (IDA) – Factsheet on the Optional Protocol to the CRPD

  https://www.internationaldisabilityalliance.org/resources/ida- factsheet-optional-protocol-crpd

  IDA have produced an in-depth factsheet on the process to making a complaint to the UN Disability Committee.

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United Nations Human Rights – Office of the High Commissioner

http://www.ohchr.org/EN/

Details international human rights bodies and treaties. It also offers a country’s overview under the tab ‘Human Rights by Country’. This includes information about the:

• UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD)

• Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD-OP).

  Ratification Status for New Zealand: http://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_ layouts/TreatyBodyExternal/Treaty.aspx?CountryID=124&Lang=EN