A just society will maintain the rights that women have fought for.
We are women and men who believe in democracy, equality and biological reality. Clarity about sex is critical for safeguarding the human rights of everybody.
The Party honours the women of Aotearoa NZ, who won the right to vote in 1893, the first self-governing nation in the World to legislate women’s suffrage.
The Women’s Rights Party has formed 130 years later out of a concern for the erosion of the rights of women and girls.
We combine this history with the imperative to create a society in which women are autonomous, and all women, men and children can live in harmony with each other to protect the future for our children and their children.
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New Zealand’s Retirement System Fails Women
NZ’s pension system scores poorly on income adequacy, and it is women who suffer the most in retirement New Zealand’s retirement system – made up of mostly of KiwiSaver and NZ Super – scores poorly by international standards in terms of the income people receive in retirement, slipping from 25th to 28th place out of
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Does this government want the people’s views to be heard?
“…I fear that this government doesn’t really want to hear from those whose views don’t align with theirs.”
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Our Submission on Improving Arrangements For Suffogacy Bill
The Health Select Committee has called for submissions on its much improved revised Surrogacy Bill However, the Women’s Rights Party and the Women’s Declaration International, to which we are a signatory, support women’s and girls’ rights to physical and reproductive integrity. We therefore oppose women’s exploitation through surrogacy and related practices. Reproductive integrity includes a
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Surrogacy commodifies women
Submissions will close today [midnight, 18 September] on the latest version of the Improving Surrogacy Arrangements Bill now before the Health Select Committee. The revised Bill, in the name of ACT MP Nicole McKee, has undergone significant changes to the former Labour MP Tamati Coffey’s 2022 Member’s Bill, and incorporates recommendations of a subsequent Law
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Misogyny behind attacks on women’s rights campaigners and women politicians
A man who threw what turned out to be tomato juice at UK women’s rights advocate Kellie-Jay Keen and Tania Sturt, an organiser of the “Let Women Speak” event in Auckland’s Albert Park on 25 March last year, has been convicted of assault charges against the two and was discharged today [3 September]. The attack
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