Ministry of Health should place higher priority on mental health of women and girls
Everyone who needs mental health support in New Zealand, including women, deserves timely access to quality mental health and addiction support, the Women’s Rights Party said in its submission to the Ministry of Healths draft Mental Health and Wellbeing Strategy. Submissions closed this week. However, aside from references to pregnant women and parents with young
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Our Submission on the Draft Mental Health and Wellbeing Strategy
Introduction The Women’s Rights Party was formed in 2023 as a voice for women whose interests were being ignored by most sectors of society in the name of inclusivity. As a registered democratic political party that is advocating strongly for the interests of women and children, we are an organised force for change. The Women’s
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Mum’s the word – NOT! Health NZ skirts around using the word ‘mother’, unless it’s unavoidable.
Health NZ has recently released Tuituia te Kahu – the national Bereavement Care Pathway for Perinatal Loss. This 184-page “framework of nine national standards” is designed to guide “compassionate, consistent, high-quality care for whānau who experience perinatal loss and outline optimal perinatal bereavement care across the health system”. Women’s Rights Party Co-leader Jill Ovens says
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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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