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Media Release: Rights Aotearoa Backs Urgent Legal Action To Stop Blocker Ban

Media Release: Rights Aotearoa Backs Urgent Legal Action To Stop Blocker Ban

Rights Aotearoa unequivocally supports the urgent legal action filed today by the Professional Association for Transgender Health Aotearoa (PATHA) to halt the Government’s discriminatory ban on puberty blockers.

Media Release: Government Bans Trans Youth While Protecting Cisgender Access to Puberty Blockers.

Media Release: Government Bans Trans Youth While Protecting Cisgender Access to Puberty Blockers.

Rights Aotearoa condemns the Government’s decision today to ban the prescription of puberty blockers for transgender youth as an act of unlawful discrimination and political interference in clinical medicine.

Media Release: Draft Curriculum Erases Rainbow Students and Breaches Human Rights Obligations

Media Release: Draft Curriculum Erases Rainbow Students and Breaches Human Rights Obligations

Wellington — Rights Aotearoa completely and utterly condemns the Ministry of Education's draft Health and Physical Education curriculum, released yesterday, which completely erases references to diverse sexual orientations, gender identities, and intersex variations.

Media Release: Rights Aotearoa Calls on Government to Reject Social Media Age Ban

Media Release: Rights Aotearoa Calls on Government to Reject Social Media Age Ban

Rights Aotearoa is urging the Government not to support the Social Media (Age-Restricted Users) Bill, which would ban under-16s from social media platforms.

MEDIA RELEASE – Broadcasting standards must protect all New Zealanders – regardless of platform

MEDIA RELEASE – Broadcasting standards must protect all New Zealanders – regardless of platform

Rights Aotearoa commends BSA for closing regulatory loophole

Media Release: Rights Aotearoa's CEO Files Complaint with New Zealand Media Council Over Stuff Opinion Column

Media Release: Rights Aotearoa's CEO Files Complaint with New Zealand Media Council Over Stuff Opinion Column

Rights Aotearoa CEO has lodged a formal complaint with the New Zealand Media Council regarding an opinion column published by Stuff titled "Chlöe Swarbrick: How Should We Define Her Contribution to Politics" (12 October 2025).

Media Release: Rights Aotearoa calls for united Opposition commitment to repeal the Regulatory Standards Act in the first 30 days of any future left-wing coalition government, should the Bill become law.

Media Release: Rights Aotearoa calls for united Opposition commitment to repeal the Regulatory Standards Act in the first 30 days of any future left-wing coalition government, should the Bill become law.

The select committee's report, released yesterday, represents only cosmetic adjustments to legislation that remains fundamentally unconstitutional, anti-democratic, and catastrophically harmful to human rights and Te Tiriti o Waitangi.