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
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Media Release: Media Council Upholds Complaint Against RNZ Over Coverage of Transgender Teen's Death
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 1 October 2025
Rights Aotearoa Media Release: Law Commission report marks significant progress for the human rights of people who are transgender, people who are non-binary, and people with innate variations of sex characteristics.
Rights Aotearoa welcomes Te Aka Matua o te Ture | Law Commission's report Ia Tangata as a significant step forward in securing legal protections for people who are transgender, people who are non-binary, and people with innate variations of sex characteristics in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Media Release: Cultural Suppression of te reo Māori by the Coalition Govt
Rights Aotearoa: Minister’s ban on te reo Māori in Year-1 readers breaches New Zealand’s human rights obligations
Rights Aotearoa Utterly Condemns Winston Peters Repeated Use of the term 'Globalists', A Well-Worn Antisemitic Dog Whistle.
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RIGHTS AOTEAROA CONDEMNS IN THE STRONGEST POSSIBLE TERMS THE GOVERNMENT'S ERASURE OF TRANS PEOPLE FROM SPORTING LIFE
A statement directed towards Hon Judith Collins KC, Attorney-General
(CC: Dr Stephen Rainbow, Chief Human Rights Commissioner)
Media Release: Seymour Weaponised Office to Harass Academics, Luxon Must Act
Thursday, 26 June 2025
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
WELLINGTON, NZ – In a letter sent to the Prime Minister today, Rights Aotearoa condemns Deputy Prime Minister David Seymour for weaponising his office to launch a vicious online harassment campaign against academics. This is not free speech; it is a state-sanctioned pile-on designed