Human Rights Commission and Office of Human Rights Proceedings — Annual Report, year ended 30 June 2025
Human Rights Commission — Te Kāhui Tika Tangata; Office of Human Rights Proceedings — Te Tari Whakatau Take Tika Tangata
Publisher: Human Rights Commission — Te Kāhui Tika Tangata
Official data
Statutory oversight
2026-10-10
Next review: 2027-04-10
New Zealand
Medium confidence
verified
Primary-source safeguarding audit, 10 October 2026
Evidence boundary: Joint report for the year ended 30 June 2025, not a study of older-person prevalence or a separate OPCAT report. Contacts, complaints, ground entries, mediation and assistance decisions have different denominators; age grounds do not identify 65+ complainants and unique-person counts are not established. Remedy categories and a narrative intervention-resolution percentage are internally inconsistent and remain unresolved. Audit assurance does not cover every narrative case account. Historical roles, service descriptions, advocacy and plans are not verified current guarantees or enacted implementation. Exact first-release day is unknown; approval/audit and technical PDF-production dates remain separate. All 128 original pages were extracted, relevant sections and the grounds table inspected, and the official PDF is byte-identical to the bundle.
Short Answer
Joint 2024–2025 human-rights annual report, with age/disability complaint-ground data, mediation and legal-assistance activity, and unresolved internal reporting discrepancies.
Why it matters
Use this report to distinguish historical information, mediation, adjudication and assistance pathways, and to examine accessibility issues and correctly labelled administrative indicators. Retain each table’s denominator and resolve publisher inconsistencies before computing remedy rates or making year-on-year comparisons.
Key Points
- •The preserved 128-page file is the joint annual report of the Commission and Office of Human Rights Proceedings for the year ended 30 June 2025, rather than a separate older-person or OPCAT report (physical pp.1–4).
- •It reports 8,376 enquiries and complaints received, 652 alleged-unlawful-discrimination complaints received and 793 such complaints closed. Administrative contacts and different lifecycle counts are not a verified unique-person total (physical pp.57, 65 / printed pp.56, 64).
- •The closed-complaint grounds table records 230 disability entries (29%) and 35 age entries (4%), with 804 total ground entries. That denominator differs from 793 closed complaints, and age entries are not specifically a 65+ category (physical p.61 / printed p.60).
- •The report describes free information and voluntary, impartial mediation, with the Commission not adjudicating complaints. Tribunal adjudication and applications to the Office of Human Rights Proceedings for assistance are distinct pathways (physical pp.18, 55, 74–76). These are reporting-period descriptions, not present-day service guarantees.
- •It records 86 mediations with 66 full or partial resolutions. These activity/outcome counts do not guarantee an individual remedy (physical pp.62, 66 / printed pp.61, 65).
- •The Office of Human Rights Proceedings reports 57 decisions and nine grants of assistance: seven for Tribunal representation and two for settlement negotiation. Assistance is described as discretionary (physical p.76 / printed p.75).
Full Summary & Notes
This joint annual report describes the Human Rights Commission and Office of Human Rights Proceedings for the year ended 30 June 2025. The 128-page original covers human rights, Te Tiriti, disability and violence-prevention work, complaints, mediation, discretionary legal assistance, organisational performance and audited statements. It records 8,376 enquiries and complaints received and 793 alleged-unlawful-discrimination complaints closed. Its separate grounds table records age and disability entries, not older-person prevalence or the same denominator as closed complaints. The report distinguishes voluntary mediation from adjudication and contains a selected mobility-device/luggage-policy case. Internally inconsistent remedy counts and an unexplained intervention-resolution percentage limit comparison. Its historical activities and administrative statistics do not establish current service guarantees, unique users or implemented government reforms.
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