In November last year, Dr. Claire Achmad was appointed to the role of Chief Children’s Commissioner – leading Mana Mokopuna – The Children and Young People’s Commission.

She’s brought with her a PhD in international children’s rights law from the Netherlands, has experience working for international, Australian, and New Zealand child rights organisations, and has published worldwide on a variety of child rights-related topics.

Last week, Mana Mokopuna reported on the recent Royal Commission of Inquiry into Historical Abuse in State Care and in the Care of Faith-based Institutions and called for some real change to procedure to honour the survivors of that abuse and do more to protect. The next day they offered an analysis of the current government’s new child poverty targets, concerned that concerned the Government has lost ambition for ending child poverty in Aotearoa New Zealand.

Dr. Claire Achmad joined Sunaina Born on Breakfast to discuss the reports and further the kōrero of what we can be doing to protect and uplift children in Aotearoa.