New sex education curriculum should be age appropriate and scientifically accurate
The Women’s Rights Party welcomes the announcement that the Relationships and Sexuality Education Guidelines are to be removed as of the end of Term 1 next year. The current guidelines, which cover Years 1-10, are to be replaced by a refreshed curriculum that would define the core knowledge and skills students should learn at each
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More Delays In Action On Use Of Puberty Blockers With Children
More than four years ago, questions were being raised both in New Zealand and internationally about the safety and long-term use of puberty blockers to treat children experiencing “sex-related distress”. Today [Thursday, 21 November], the Ministry of Health announced it had been instructed by the Government to consult on whether there should be additional safety
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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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Australian decision shows changes to Human Rights Act would harm women
“Tickle v Giggle” illustrates why legal sex self-ID and ‘gender identity’ erodes boundaries that allow women to meet in women-only spaces.
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