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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Lawyers ask the Speaker’s Office why it has refused to fly theSuffrage flag on Suffrage Day?
Lawyers for a Women’s Rights Party member have written to the Office of the Speaker asking them to reconsider her request to fly the Suffrage flag annually on Suffrage Day, 19 September. The Women’s Rights Party says the Speaker’s Office declined the request on dubious grounds, initially saying: “We normally fly country flags of visiting
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Adding ‘transgender’ and ‘nonbinary’ to Human Rights Act not a priority, Government says.
Well, well – the Government has responded to the Law Commission’s ‘Ia Tangata’ report, saying it is not a priority at this time. This is the report that recommended adding “people who are transgender, people who are non-binary, and people with innate variations of sex characteristics” to the Human Rights Act and making wide ranging
read moreJill Ovens On The Peaceful Protest Outside Western Springs College
Jill Ovens, Secretary of the Women’s Rights Party talks about the peaceful protest outside Western Springs College in Auckland.
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Men should be banned from using women’s changing rooms at work
The Women’s Rights Party is calling on the Coalition Government to ban public sector policies that allow males identifying as women to access women employees’ changing facilities. On Friday a group of UK nurses from Darlington Memorial Hospital won their employment-tribunal claim challenging a workplace policy of the NHS Foundation Trust that employed them which
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Proposed data collection approach and content for the census
Tēnā koutou The Women’s Rights Party of New Zealand Aotearoa was formed in 2023 to focus on issues that directly impact on women and girls. We recognise that such interests are wide ranging, including women’s sex-based rights, women’s healthcare, our children’s education, and recognition of women’s contributions to society. We welcome the opportunity to provide
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