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 Surrogacy 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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Changing The Future
Sandi Hall’s call for women to change the future opens with a quote from 20th Century novelist and journalist Martha Gellhorn. Sandi presented her collection of thoughts by women on the need for a political movement to champion women’s rights at the Women’s Rights Party Conference, 29 June 2024. The publication includes a forward by
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Should NZ law acknowledge ‘gender identity and expression’?
A review of the NZ Human Rights Act by the Law Commission could embed the absurdity of gender into NZ law.
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