New Zealand
Overview
New Zealand received criticism from the UN Human Rights Committee and Committee on the Rights of the Child for its high rates of Indigenous Māori incarceration, child poverty and domestic violence. The state’s refugee resettlement quota was marginally increased.
Death penalty status
Abolitionist for all crimes
Does not use the death penalty
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