New Zealand Women's Rights Party

Children should not be subjected to questions in court about consent to alleged sexual activity

We endorse changes to the Act allowing automatic name suppression for all victims of sexual violence. But there are serious concerns over data collection.

White Camellia Episode Three: The Cost Of Kindness

Kindness should not be used as an excuse to shut down dissent: Chimene del la Varas describes the cost to women of “kindness”.

Submission of the New Zealand Women's Rights Party to the United Nations: Universal Periodic Review 2024

Our Submission to the United Nations: Aotearoa New Zealand Universal Periodic Review 2024

Women’s rights in Aotearoa are being actively eroded, and the government has not yet addressed the concerns that have been repeatedly raised by women. The Women’s Rights Party hope the UPR Review will take this issue seriously.

Nearly half of voters aged 18-39 [49%] said, in a Curia Poll, they would consider giving the Women’s Rights Party their party vote in the upcoming Election.

Younger voters and Aucklanders most likely to consider voting Women’s Rights Party this Election

Overall 47% said “No” to the question: “Should men who identify as women (often called “transwomen”) be allowed to have free and unchecked entry into all designated single-sex spaces for women and girls?”

130 years of the women's vote in Aotearoa New Zealand

White Camellia Podcast – Marking 130 Years of Women Voting in Aotearoa

This episode marks a period in our history when women struggled for recognition as full human beings and asks the question – is it really so different today?

Words Are Boats

“In bureaucracy, we are no longer ‘women and men’, we are ‘persons’. But words are boats which carry meaning. I agree I am a person, but that I am a Woman is much more relevant – and important.”

Jill Ovens talks Posie Parker and Women’s Suffrage Day

Jill Oven discussess Posie Parker and police interference in New Zealand women’s political activity

New Zealand Women's Rights Party - Suffrage Day 2023 - 130 Year commemoration

Commemorating Suffrage Day with actions around the country

The Women’s Rights Party commemorated Suffrage Day with actions that recalled the determined efforts of those who won the right for all women to vote, both here in New Zealand, and in the United Kingdom, where universal suffrage was not attained until 1928..

News

Children should not be subjected to questions in court about consent to alleged sexual activity

White Camellia Episode Three: The Cost Of Kindness

Our Submission to the United Nations: Aotearoa New Zealand Universal Periodic Review 2024

Younger voters and Aucklanders most likely to consider voting Women’s Rights Party this Election

White Camellia Podcast – Marking 130 Years of Women Voting in Aotearoa

Words Are Boats

Jill Ovens talks Posie Parker and Women’s Suffrage Day

Commemorating Suffrage Day with actions around the country

We are the only political party in New Zealand that puts women first.