Policy development

Te Wai Ariki members have been appointed to various working groups and steering groups, including by Cabinet, to contribute to the development of policy and law, especially with regard to New Zealand’s international human rights obligations. For example: Claire and Tracey worked on the development of a national plan of action to realise New Zealand’s obligations under the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and Dr Claire Charters chaired the working group that wrote He Puapua, a guide for government on how it might achieve the rights of the UN Declaration.