Advocating for Women
Proposal
Current
We have lost our right to speak, we have been cancelled in academia and the mainstream media. We cannot rely on the Police to treat us as citizens worthy of protecting our rights to assemble and to speak.
Replace as follows
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”. In the same year, the Women’s Rights Party contested the General Election with a List of 12 exceptional women from all over the country. As a registered democratic political party that is advocating strongly for the interests of women and children, we are an organised force for change.
Rationale
The original words were written shortly after the mob violence women, and some men, encountered at Albert Park on 25 March 2023 and reflected the failure of Police to protect those who came to speak and to hear from from UK women’s rights activist Kellie-Jay Keen.
Since then we have reclaimed our right to assemble. Women are speaking out, despite having been cancelled. There have been public meetings with inspirational speakers. The huge counter-protests in Auckland and Wellington have dwindled, and the experience with the Police at the “Let Women Speak” event on 20 September 2023 was far more positive than six months earlier.
The Women’s Rights Party contested the 2023 General Election with a List of 12 exceptional women from all over the country. We are a registered democratic political party that is advocating strongly for the interests of women and children.
Our members are active in saving women’s sports, challenging gender education in schools, and a range of subversive actions (e.g. stickering, chalking, questioning and challenging those in authority).
Our current Policy in relation to Te Tiriti o Waitangi states that the Women’s Rights Party “advocates for the economic and social equity, health and wellbeing of wāhine Māori and their whānau”. By singling out wāhine Maōri in terms of economic and social equity, health and well-being, it could seem as if we are excluding other women from these goals.*
Members have raised issues facing women with disabilities. Other members have raised issues facing refugee and migrant women who may feel isolated for cultural and language reasons. As our name suggests, we are for women’s rights. And that benefits all of humanity.
*It should be noted that the original statement was under the Te Tiriti o Waitangi section so it is appropriate in that context.
