September 18, 2024The Health Select Committee has called for submissions on its much improved revised Surrogacy BillHowever, the Women’s Rights Party and
September 17, 2024Submissions will close today [midnight, 18 September] on the latest version of the Improving Surrogacy Arrangements Bill now before the
May 29, 2024The Queenstown Lakes District Council is currently consulting on a draft by-law that would relax certain requirements and expand the
May 13, 2024The Women’s Rights Party is concerned that questions being circulated by a committee of CEDAW (the Convention for the Elimination
April 18, 2024The Women’s Rights Party is calling on the Ministry of Health to ban the use of puberty blockers and cross-sex
April 9, 2024Midwifery Council’s proposed revised Scope of Practice was presented to Parliament. It is not fit for purpose.
March 5, 2024Women across New Zealand should be very concerned that a man who smashed a woman’s eye socket in what was- January 31, 2024It is 20 years since the passing of the Prostitution Reform Act 2003, which fully decriminalised prostitution in New Zealand.
January 10, 2024The Christchurch City Council has excluded the word 'sex' from inclusion policy. This is incongruent with NZ human rights law- December 21, 20232023 was a big year for New Zealand women. Our new party ended 'no debate' and gave women a political
November 27, 2023The coalition agreement heralds the first disruptions in the flow of gender ideology into our schools, universities, public services and
November 26, 2023The Women’s Rights Party is calling on the new Government to fund single-sex shelters, women-only refuges, women-to-women counselling and peer- November 17, 2023While many countries were restricting use of puberty blockers and hormones, New Zealand is becoming more of an outlier in
October 24, 2023The New Zealand Women's Rights Party support healthy debate. The Government must act now to actively defend democratic values, and
October 23, 2023Lawmakers require accurate recording of the sex of victims and perpetrators to produce legislation that is fit for purpose. Current- October 17, 2023We endorse changes to the Act allowing automatic name suppression for all victims of sexual violence. But there are serious
October 13, 2023Women’s rights in Aotearoa are being actively eroded, and the government has not yet addressed the concerns that have been
September 25, 2023"In bureaucracy, we are no longer 'women and men', we are 'persons'. But words are boats which carry meaning. I
September 22, 2023The Women’s Rights Party commemorated Suffrage Day with actions that recalled the determined efforts of those who won the right- August 19, 2023The Women’s Rights Party is taking to the road on a nationwide tour from today to meet with New Zealanders
August 11, 2023The addition of the terms “sex characteristics”, “secondary sex characteristics “ and “variations of sex characteristics” in the Bill do
