Rights Aotearoa just wrote to the Minister of Health urging him to ignore the FSU's correspondence concerning the Nursing Council's draft code of conduct for nurses. www.rightsaotearoa.nz/letter-to-th...

Rights Aotearoa has just written to the Prime Minister asking him to admonish Winston Peters for using the antisemitic dogwhistle phrase 'globalists'. www.rightsaotearoa.nz/letter-to-th...

Rights Aotearoa's first letter of the year. An urgent situation the Government must address immediately. www.rightsaotearoa.nz/letter-to-pa...

Rights Aotearoa welcomes New Zealand’s decision to co-sign the joint statement condemning atrocities and violations of international humanitarian law in Sudan. Clear, united condemnation is essential to accountability and the protection of civilians. www.regjeringen.no/en/whats-new...

Media Release: Is NZ First beginning to see sense? A ban on fireworks replaces attacks on trans community. www.rightsaotearoa.nz/media-releas...

Third, we have written urgently to the Chief Human Rights Commissioner. www.rightsaotearoa.nz/letter-to-st...

Second, we have written urgently to the Minister of Education. www.rightsaotearoa.nz/letter-to-ho...

First of three posts about the erasure of rainbow youth from the curriculum. This is a media release. www.rightsaotearoa.nz/media-releas...

Damn right.

First of three posts about the erasure of rainbow youth from the curriculum. This is a media release. www.rightsaotearoa.nz/media-releas...

Content warning: torture and children Urgent letter to the Honourable Louise Upston regarding the alleged torture of children at Gloriavale. www.rightsaotearoa.nz/letter-to-ho...

Why does Rights Aotearoa focus on universal human rights as opposed to Civil Liberties - a new page on our website. www.rightsaotearoa.nz/universal-hu...

Why does Rights Aotearoa focus on universal human rights as opposed to Civil Liberties - a new page on our website. www.rightsaotearoa.nz/universal-hu...

This week's newsletter! www.rightsaotearoa.nz/rights-aotea...

Media Release - Rights Aotearoa Commends BSA for Closing Regulatory Loophole. www.rightsaotearoa.nz/media-releas...

Here are my prepared remarks - I won't speak to all of my content as it's slightly too long. The eagle-eyed amongst you will see that Rights Aotearoa has updated its house font from Helvetica Neue to Helvetica Now.

You can also find the remarks here. www.rightsaotearoa.nz/oral-submiss...

Wish me luck, team - I am appearing in front of the Governance and Administration Committee tomorrow at 8am to make my oral submission against the Public Service Amendment Bill. Once again, it is a bill not grounded in evidence. DEI is crucial for avoiding bias in organisations.

🔽🔽🔽Emergency media release 🔽🔽🔽 The F&E select committee reported back yesterday. 98.7% of 166k submissions against the Regulatory Standards Bill. But the Govt is going ahead. "This is an attempted constitutional coup d'état by other means." - Paul Thistoll www.rightsaotearoa.nz/media-releas...

Are you subscribed to our mailing list? Please sign up to get a weekly newsletter and occasional other dispatches from the front lines of the defence of human rights. Sign up using the link in this week's newsletter 🔽🔽🔽 www.rightsaotearoa.nz/rights-aotea...

This bill is so badly worded at present, there is no way to know beforehand whether you are breaking the law. It's Kafka-esque. It doesn't define 'near'. It's amateur hour. www.rightsaotearoa.nz/media-releas...

Small favour: sign up for the Rights Aotearoa mailing list at 👉 www.rightsaotearoa.nz It’ll be our main communications channel in the future (besides BSky): a weekly Thursday newsletter + the occasional urgent human rights hot take. No spam, NO YELLING, just substance.

Rights Aotearoa has written to Dr Rainbow, urging the HRC, under his leadership, to publicly call on the Government to adopt the recommendations of the Ia Tangata report, and to do so by reference to New Zealand’s binding international human rights obligations. www.rightsaotearoa.nz/letter-to-th...

Rights Aotearoa welcomes Melissa Derby's support for extending hate speech protections to include religious groups and the LGBTQIA+ community, as expressed in her appearance on TVNZ's Q+A this morning. She explicitly said that the LGB included the 'T' RA will issue a formal press release tomorrow.

"When someone argues that fewer trans people should exist, when they liken... healthcare to child abuse, when they advocate criminal penalties for doctors following...best practice —That is .... eliminationist rhetoric dressed up in the language of concern." www.rightsaotearoa.nz/media-releas...

We just sent out our second newsletter. Please share and sign up - our focus right now is on building up our newsletter subscriber base organically. www.rightsaotearoa.nz/rights-aotea...

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This is my response to their provisional opinion.

See below - a final decision from the Ombudsman that Brooke Van Velden can rely on professional legal privilege to redact the human rights analysis of the pay equity changes. I gave it my all, team. Attached to the second post is my response to their provisional opinion.

We were on Ghost.io before it was made fashionable by Farrier ;-) We just sent out our first Ghost-hosted newsletter, though just now. Please read and then sign up! :-) www.rightsaotearoa.nz/rights-aotea...

Despite my industrial-strength ADHD, Rights Aotearoa will send out a newsletter each Thursday outlining our activities and key human rights news. There will be the occasional extra email when important events require it, but we will not clog up your inbox! Please sign up at www.rightsaotearoa.nz

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Rights Aotearoa's Submission on the Draft Standard Code of Conduct for Local Government www.rightsaotearoa.nz/rights-aotea...

Rights Aotearoa has written to Dr Rainbow, urging the HRC, under his leadership, to publicly call on the Government to adopt the recommendations of the Ia Tangata report, and to do so by reference to New Zealand’s binding international human rights obligations. www.rightsaotearoa.nz/letter-to-th...

Our CEO will be making an oral presentation of Rights Aotearoa's written submission to the People's Select Committee on Pay Equity in the morning session this Thursday, the 25th at 10.35 am. Our written submission is here: www.rightsaotearoa.nz/rights-aotea...

Our submission to the People's Select Committee on the Equal Pay Amendment Act 2025. www.rightsaotearoa.nz/rights-aotea...

Please read my article below, which argues that we must retire the false marketplace of ideas analogy and replace it with a more coherent model. *How can a good idea beat a bad idea when the owner of X alters the algorithm to win by brute force?* constellation-of-rights.ghost.io/the-death-of...

Democracy is not self-executing. It requires active protection. Yesterday, Doyle’s speech reminded us that we failed that test. The right to participate in the political process without fear is a universal human right—and we will defend it with all our strength www.rightsaotearoa.nz/yesterday-we...

Democracy is not self-executing. It requires active protection. Yesterday, Doyle’s speech reminded us that we failed that test. The right to participate in the political process without fear is a universal human right—and we will defend it with all our strength www.rightsaotearoa.nz/yesterday-we...

We’ve written to Minister Goldsmith, urging him to act on the Law Commission’s Ia Tangata report. The law must make the implicit explicit: clear protections for trans, non-binary & intersex people. Parliament must act—dignity can’t wait. #HumanRights #IaTangata www.rightsaotearoa.nz/letter-to-pa...

We stand with the Lemkin Institute's call for GANHRI to withdraw the UK EHRC's accreditation. The EHRC has abandoned its mandate, systematically eroding trans & intersex rights. A captured institution cannot be a human rights body. #TransRights www.lemkininstitute.com/_files/ugd/c...

We welcome Te Aka Matua o te Ture'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. www.rightsaotearoa.nz/rights-aotea...

We welcome Te Aka Matua o te Ture'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. www.rightsaotearoa.nz/rights-aotea...

With the imminent release of the Final Document of the Ia Tangata project from the Law Commission, we thought it would be a good time to revisit the submission we made when we were still called Countering Hate Speech Aotearoa. www.rightsaotearoa.nz/countering-h...

This is the last in my 3-part series on Foucault and Human Rights. Please repost and sign up for my personal blog. constellation-of-rights.ghost.io/biopolitics-...

Please sign up for my Personal Blog - Constellation of Rights. This is my second essay in a three-part series. Will pop the third one up later. constellation-of-rights.ghost.io/from-panopti...