Media Release: Rights Aotearoa utterly condemns the Free Speech Union for bringing anti-transgender campaigner Helen Joyce to New Zealand
For immediate release
2 October 2025
RIghts Aotearoa
Rights Aotearoa Newsletter #2
Let's build a community around universal human rights
Media Release: Media Council Upholds Complaint Against RNZ Over Coverage of Transgender Teen's Death
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 1 October 2025
Rights Aotearoa Weekly Newsletter #1
Welcome to our very first newsletter hosted on Ghost.io
Rights Aotearoa's Submission on the Draft Standard Code of Conduct for Local Government
1. Introduction and Overview
1.1. Rights Aotearoa welcomes the opportunity to provide feedback on the Draft Standard Code of Conduct (the Draft Code) for members of local authorities, local boards, and community boards, developed pursuant to Clause 15, Schedule 7 of the Local Government Act 2002.
1.2. Rights
Letter to the Chief Human Rights Commissioner re Ia Tangata
I respectfully write to urge the Commission, under your leadership, to publicly call on the Government to adopt the recommendations of the Law Commission’s Ia Tangata report, and to do so by reference to New Zealand’s binding international human rights obligations.
Rights Aotearoa's Submission to the People's Select Committee on the Equal Pay Amendment Act 2025
In May 2025, under the cover of parliamentary urgency, the Government extinguished the employment rights of over 300,000 workers in Aotearoa New Zealand.