Learning videos for international integrity organisations

Making Disability Rights Real

This webinar covers the background, role and function of New Zealand’s Independent Monitoring Mechanism (IMM), and how the Chief Ombudsman practically undertakes his work to protect and monitor the rights of disabled New Zealanders. The webinar discusses the New Zealand IMM  report “Making Disability Rights Real”, which was published in 2020.

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Making disability rights real in places of detention

The Chief Ombudsman of New Zealand visits places where people are detained to check their treatment and conditions under OPCAT. The Chief Ombudsman is also one of three partners of New Zealand’s Independent Monitoring Mechanism (IMM), which promotes, protects and monitors the implementation of the Disability Convention.

This webinar explores the inherent links between OPCAT and the Disability Convention and how these can work together in the interests of disability rights. New Zealand Ombudsman staff present important considerations for people with disabilities in places of detention and some experiences from New Zealand.

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Making Disability Rights Real in a Pandemic

This webinar covers how COVID-19 affected disability communities in New Zealand, and the New Zealand Independent Monitoring Mechanism (IMM) report "Making Disability Rights Real in a Pandemic".

The webinar features Chrissie Cowan, CEO of Kāpō Māori Aotearoa New Zealand, who speaks about Tāngata Whaikaha Māori (disabled Māori) experiences of the pandemic, including an outline about why Ombudsman institutions can, and should, include disabled people’s voices (in particular indigenous people’s voices), in their monitoring under the Disability Convention.

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Prison Inspection Processes Under the Optional Protocol to the Convention Against Torture (OPCAT)

This webinar presents the basics of how the New Zealand Office of the Ombudsman undertakes inspections of prisons under the Optional Protocol to The Convention Against Torture (OPCAT). The example of the visit to the Auckland Prison is used to detail the practical steps inspectors undertake during prison inspections, and how the reporting is completed after a visit.

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Data and the Ombudsman

This training video provides an overview of what data is, how data is used by the New Zealand public sector, along with the Ombudsman's journey with data.

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A discussion with Chief Ombudsman Peter Boshier and Victorian Ombudsman Deborah Glass on the United Nations Resolution on the Role of the Ombudsman 

This webinar features the New Zealand Chief Ombudsman and the Victorian Ombudsman (Australia) discussing the United Nations Resolution on the Role of the Ombudsman 2020 (The Resolution). The Resolution provides an important advocacy tool for Ombudsmen to draw on to highlight their importance and role in a country.

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Learn more about how the Chief Ombudsman regards The Resolution as an important tool for Ombudsmen.

Read the full version of the United Nations Resolution on the Role of the Ombudsman