🇳🇿 is pleased to participate in 🇰🇭's UPR. We commend Cambodia’s positive progress on LGBTQI+ rights, and call on Cambodia to re-enfranchise political parties, open up civic space, reverse the forced closure of media outlets and release all remaining political prisoners. Our

📣 New Zealand is urging both Israel and Hamas to agree to an immediate ceasefire to avoid the further humanitarian catastrophe that military action in Rafah would unleash.

Press release: beehive.govt.nz/release/ceasef…

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We're saddened by the passing of a stalwart of the global disability community, New Zealander Sir Robert Martin (KNZM). As an elected member on United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons w/ Disabilities, his passionate activism was felt both here & NZ Mission Geneva.

Moe mai I te rangimarie.

New Zealand🇳🇿 is grateful for the opportunity to engage on Vietnam's UPR. We welcome 🇻🇳’s progress towards establishing a NHRI and progress for persons with disabilities. We encourage protection of freedom of expression, enforcement of obligations under the Convention Against

New Zealand 🇳🇿engaged in 🇨🇱's #UniversalPeriodicReview today and recommended Chile ensure full access to sexual and reproductive health services, strengthen measures to advance the rights of Indigenous Peoples, and remove the death penalty as a punishment from the Military

New Zealand call’s on Afghanistan 🇦🇫 to rescind discriminatory edicts and decrees; permit women and girls to access education and work, remove barriers to their participation in society ; and investigate and prosecute all cases of violence against women. See our statement here ➡️

🇳🇿’s Minister of Justice Paul Goldsmith presented New Zealand’s 4th Universal Periodic Review at the United Nations in Geneva today – an interactive exchange with 88 countries on 🇳🇿’s human rights progress and priorities #unhumanrights #UPR46

#AWS 2024Vienna off to a great start

Strong momentum and great panel discussions as the international community discusses urgency of new rules and limits on autonomous weapons systems #AWS

Thanks to our fantastic hosts MFA Austria 🇦🇹 looking forward to day 2!

New Zealand has updated its Disarmament and Arms Control Strategy for 2024-2026. Check it out ⬇New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs & Trade @DisarmamentNZ
 
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Congratulations to 🇳🇴 Norway MFA for successfully hosting #EWIPAOslo

A significant gathering of States, armed forces, humanitarian actors, civil society activists, the United Nations and the ICRC

Explosive weapons have devastating effects when used in populated areas

#UPR46 | 🇳🇿 #NewZealand 's human rights record will be examined by the 🇺🇳United Nations Human Rights Council's Universal Periodic Review Working Group.

🗓️Monday 29 April 2024
⏲️09:00 (GMT+2)
🏛️United NationsGeneva
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New Zealand 🇳🇿 appreciated the opportunity to participate in the Interactive Dialogue with the Fact-Finding Mission on Venezuela 🇻🇪 at #HRC55 . We remain deeply concerned by the deteriorating human rights situation in Venezuela, and call for free and fair elections in 2024 ➡️

Here it is! Today marks the launch of the first ever guide to our historical records, available now ➡ mfat.govt.nz/en/about-us/wh…
This guide will help researchers explore the stories of generations of diplomats who have shaped New Zealand’s role on the world stage. 🌏 #MFATHistory

The latest report of the CoI on Human Rights in Ukraine 🇺🇦re-confirms that torture used by Russian authorities has been “widespread and systematic”. New Zealand 🇳🇿recognises the importance of all dimensions of accountability and of ensuring that the rights and needs of the

10 years after the COI on Human Rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, New Zealand reiterates our concerns about the dire human rights situation in DPRK. We call on the DPRK to give access to the international community. We commend efforts by North Korean victims

On this day March 11, New Zealand 🇳🇿celebrates being one of the 56 member nations of the Commonwealth. The theme for #CommonwealthDay and the upcoming Heads of Government meeting #CHOGM in Samoa is ‘One Resilient Common Future: Transforming our Common Wealth.’ More info: