Claire Achmad
Claire Achmad | |
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.jpg) Achmad in 2024 | |
| Chief Children's Commissioner | |
| Assumed office 1 November 2023 | |
| Preceded by | Frances Eivers |
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| Born | Claire Indrawati Achmad Waitākere Ranges, New Zealand |
| Alma mater | Leiden University |
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Claire Indrawati Achmad is a New Zealand lawyer, and is the Chief Children's Commissioner for New Zealand.
Early life and education
[edit]Achmad has a Pākehā mother and a Javanese father. She grew up in the Waitakere Ranges, and was educated at Titirangi Primary School, Glen Eden Intermediate School, and Avondale College, where she was head girl in her final year.[1][2] After completing a Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws at the University of Auckland, Achmad earned a PhD titled Children's Rights in International Commercial Surrogacy: Exploring the Challenges from a Child Rights, Public International Law Perspective at the University of Leiden.[3]
Career
[edit]Achmad worked in child advocacy for the Human Rights Commission, World Vision in Melbourne, UNICEF, and Barnardo's Aotearoa.[1][4]
Achmad is a member of the Asia New Zealand Foundation's Leadership Network.[1][5] In 2007 Achmad was named CLANZ-Bell Gully Young Corporate Lawyer of the Year.[6] The University of Auckland included Achmad in their '40 under 40' profiles of young alumni "who continue to shine in both their professional and personal lives".[7]
Achmad was chief executive of the collective organisation Social Service Providers Te Pai Ora o Aotearoa from 2021 to 2023.[8] In November 2023 she was appointed to a five year term to lead Mana Mokopuna, the Children and Young People’s Commission, which had previously been the Office of the Children’s Commissioner. She replaced Judge Frances Eivers, who returned to the bench.[9][8] She had been Deputy Children's Commissioner since July 2023.[10] As Commissioner Achmad has expressed concerns about government plans to run military-style bootcamps for young offenders.[11]
Selected works
[edit]- Sekhar Bandyopadhyay, SungYong Lee, Alex Tan, Andrea Chloe Wong, Sanjana Hattotuwa, Claire Achmad (30 May 2019). "Political spectrums in Asia". Asia Media Centre : Helping New Zealand media cover Asia. Retrieved 18 September 2024.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - Achmad, Claire (2015). "Combatting Statelessness". New Zealand International Review. 40 (1): 22–26. ISSN 0110-0262.
- Achmad, Claire; Vonk, Machteld (1 October 2019). "Upholding the law on international commercial surrogacy: at whose cost?". Tijdschrift voor familie- en jeugdrecht.
- Claire Achmad (1 January 2017), Protecting the Locus of Vulnerability: Preliminary Ideas for Guidance on Protecting the Rights of the Child in International Commercial Surrogacy, pp. 513–540, doi:10.1163/9789004295056_026, Wikidata Q130316792
- Claire Achmad (13 March 2020). "Realising treaty-based protection in Aotearoa's child welfare system". Policy Quarterly. 16 (1). doi:10.26686/PQ.V16I1.6457. ISSN 2324-1098. Wikidata Q130316791.
References
[edit]- ^ a b c "Children's Commissioner Claire Achmad wants young voices heard - The University of Auckland". www.auckland.ac.nz. Retrieved 18 September 2024.
- ^ Achmad, Claire; Leete, Nicola (2024). "Reimagining education: An interview with Dr Claire Achmad, Te Kaikōmihana Matua – Chief Children's Commissioner". Kairaranga. 25 (1). doi:10.54322/0cj2x559. ISSN 1175-9232.
- ^ Achmad, Claire Indrawati (2018). Children's Rights in International Commercial Surrogacy: Exploring the Challenges from a Child Rights, Public International Law Perspective (PhD thesis). University of Leiden. Retrieved 18 September 2024.
- ^ "New Chief Children's Commissioner: Claire Achmad". RNZ. 1 November 2023. Retrieved 18 September 2024.
- ^ "Claire Achmad". Asia Media Centre | Helping New Zealand media cover Asia. Retrieved 18 September 2024.
- ^ "40 under 40: Claire Achmad - The University of Auckland". www.auckland.ac.nz. Retrieved 18 September 2024.
- ^ "40 Under 40 - The University of Auckland". www.auckland.ac.nz. Retrieved 18 September 2024.
- ^ a b "Dr Claire Achmad". Mana Mokopuna. 15 August 2023. Retrieved 18 September 2024.
- ^ "Chief children's commissioner appointed". NZ Herald. 18 September 2024. Retrieved 18 September 2024.
- ^ ZB (18 September 2024). "The new Children's Commissioner tells John all about her vision for New Zealand's tamariki". ZB. Retrieved 18 September 2024.
- ^ "Children's commissioner concerned about boot camps". Otago Daily Times Online News. 24 June 2024. Retrieved 18 September 2024.
External links
[edit]- Report, Achmad talking about the Ministry of Child Poverty Reduction 2023-2024 annual report on the child and youth wellbeing strategy. Via Waatea News