“The New Zealand Permanent Mission strongly supports the GGC Parity Panel Pledge. The Pledge is a concrete expression of New Zealand’s commitment to gender equality and to the empowerment of women and girls to participate fully in economic, social and political life.”

I, Carl Reaich, support the GGC Panel Parity Pledge.

On behalf of the New Zealand Permanent Mission to the United Nations in Geneva, I commit to also undertake the following:

• Give careful consideration to scheduling events in hours that are family and gender friendly.
• The New Zealand Permanent Mission will ensure appropriate representation of female staff in panels for the recruitment of new staff.
• As an extension to our GGC Panel Parity Pledge, aim in general to have at least one representative of the underrepresented sex as speaker when organizing panel discussions and events.  This will include a specific effort to also ensure men’s participation in debates and events on gender related issues.