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Media Release: Rights Aotearoa welcomes Race Relations Commissioner Dr Melissa Derby’s comments that hate speech protections must extend to religious groups and LGBTQIA+ Communities

Media Release: Rights Aotearoa welcomes Race Relations Commissioner Dr Melissa Derby’s comments that hate speech protections must extend to religious groups and LGBTQIA+ Communities

Rights Aotearoa welcomes Race Relations Commissioner Dr Melissa Derby’s comments on TVNZ's Q&A program yesterday.

Media Release: Rights Aotearoa utterly condemns the Free Speech Union for bringing anti-transgender campaigner Helen Joyce to New Zealand

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 Newsletter #2

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

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

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

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

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.