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Stop Demand
Calls for action to stop sexual violence
Stop Demand works to reduce demand that drives the global sex trade. It works to identify, challenge and seek a shift in attitudes and beliefs that underpin and sustain all forms of sexual violence, sexual exploitation and sexual denigration of women and children. Stop Demand's key platform is education - through public awareness raising, calling for local and global action, co-ordinating campaigns, mobilising the community in particular the male community, media engagement, and collaborating with governmental and non-governmental agencies.
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Sex Buyers In The Spotlight In ‘Buying Her’ Film, Premieres In New Zealand
Tuesday, 27 February 2024, 11:28 am | Stop Demand
As a nation that has decriminalised and normalised prostitution and the buying of sex, the film Buying Her is both powerful and relevant. A first-of-its-kind film/documentary, Buying Her explores the lives of men who buy sex and what drives them. First-hand ... More >>
Roast Busters’ Sex Crimes Case Ends Abysmally
Wednesday, 23 August 2023, 2:13 pm | Stop Demand
It was a case that shocked the nation. Videos taken and distributed by a pack of young West Auckland men, crudely self-styled as ‘Roast Busters’, depicted the men sexually violating drunk girls, many under aged. Politicians spoke out. Leaders ... More >>
Prostitution’s Collateral Damage, 20 Years On
Monday, 26 June 2023, 9:49 am | Stop Demand
This week’s 20-year anniversary of New Zealand decriminalising prostitution offers little to celebrate, say advocates who lobbied against the law change in 2003. Stop Demand, which works to end sexual violence and exploitation, says the collateral ... More >>
Prostitution’s Collateral Damage, 20 Years On
Monday, 26 June 2023, 5:47 am | Stop Demand
This week’s 20-year anniversary of New Zealand decriminalising prostitution offers little to celebrate, say advocates who lobbied against the law change in 2003. Stop Demand, which works to end sexual violence and exploitation, says the collateral ... More >>
Mama Hooch Rapists’ WhatsApp Group Members Called Out
Friday, 26 May 2023, 11:45 am | Stop Demand
A group calling for action to stop sexual violence against women and children has welcomed the lifting of name suppression for the predatory Christchurch-based brothers, Daniel Jaz (40) and Roberto Jaz (38). However, it says a spotlight also needs to ... More >>
Prison For Incestuous Feral Grandfather Welcomed
Wednesday, 3 November 2021, 4:41 pm | Stop Demand
A 66-year-old grandfather who, in the 1980s, was charged with incest, rape and sodomy on his daughter but acquitted, has today been sentenced to four years 10 months jail for more recent charges of incest in relation to his granddaughter, and one charge ... More >>
Brierley’s Sentence Welcomed By Child Advocacy Group
Thursday, 14 October 2021, 2:10 pm | Stop Demand
Today’s sentencing of Ron Brierley to 14 months imprisonment for possessing child sex abuse material has been welcomed by child advocacy group Stop Demand Foundation. Stop Demand says that a prison sentence was fitting, both as a punishment and as ... More >>
Are Ministers being gagged on lockdown family violence?
Thursday, 16 September 2021, 2:34 pm | Stop Demand
Sir Ron Brierley Must Be Stripped Of Knighthood
Thursday, 1 April 2021, 1:22 pm | Stop Demand
Today’s guilty plea in Sydney by New Zealand-born businessman Sir Ron Brierley, to charges of possessing child sex abuse material, should pave the way for the former high-flyer to be stripped of his knighthood, says a long-time campaigner and law ... More >>
Prison for prominent predator’s live online child sex shows
Tuesday, 18 September 2018, 2:28 pm | Stop Demand
A prison sentence handed down today to 75-year-old former North Shore Community Board Chair Martin Lawes, for sustained child sexual exploitation of impoverished children in the Philippines, has been welcomed by child advocacy group Stop Demand. More >>
NZME and Herald slammed for sex trade ads for ‘young girls'
Thursday, 23 August 2018, 2:39 pm | Stop Demand
Three months after the New Zealand Herald came under fire for its role in sex crimes against an Auckland teenager, the paper continues to advertise ‘young girls’ for sex. More >>
UPDATE: NZ Herald silent on facilitating sex crimes
Tuesday, 22 May 2018, 3:33 pm | Stop Demand
UPDATE: Further to our media release, we can confirm that we have now received a response from the NZ Herald Editor, Shayne Currie, who writes: “Thank you for your e-mails. We are reviewing this case, and will continue to do what we can to ensure ... More >>
NZ Herald silent on facilitating child sex crimes
Tuesday, 22 May 2018, 2:49 pm | Stop Demand
New Zealand’s largest circulating newspaper, The New Zealand Herald, has come under fire for its role in facilitating child sex crimes against an Auckland girl, and its refusal to discuss its sex trade advertisements with an advocacy group working ... More >>
Auckland men paid up to $200 to sexually violate teen’s body
Thursday, 19 April 2018, 4:40 pm | Stop Demand
Auckland men paid up to $200 to sexually violate teen’s body, facilitated by NZ Herald In what has been described as one of New Zealand’s most “sickening” criminal cases , on Tuesday an Auckland mother was jailed for six years and 11 months ... More >>
NZ’s Child Sex Crimes Ranking Demands Urgent Response
Wednesday, 20 September 2017, 11:06 am | Stop Demand
Sexual violence advocacy group Stop Demand Foundation says that a UN report that ranks New Zealand as being in the top seven countries for child sex crimes, highlights the urgent need for action. More >>
NZ's shocking level of child rape
Tuesday, 28 June 2016, 10:13 am | Stop Demand
Stop Demand Foundation, which calls for action to stop sexual violence against women and children, is calling on the incoming Children’s Commissioner Andrew Becroft to address, as a priority, New Zealand’s shameful litany of sex crimes being committed ... More >>
Labour’s Response on Sex-for-Rent Ironic
Monday, 1 February 2016, 1:20 pm | Stop Demand
The Labour Party’s “shock, horror” response to the exposure of a growing sex-for-rent trend amongst some landlords and tenants is ironic given Labour was behind normalising the sale and purchase of commercial sexual services, says a group that addresses ... More >>
Judge soft on global child rape trade
Wednesday, 23 December 2015, 5:17 pm | Stop Demand
A group that has spent years campaigning for tougher penalties for those who fuel the global child rape trade has condemned what it describes as “another shocking” decision. More >>
Discharge for child sex exploiter condemned
Wednesday, 2 December 2015, 9:20 am | Stop Demand
A group that has spent years campaigning for tougher penalties for those who fuel online child sex abuse material has condemned a judge’s decision to discharge an offender. More >>
“Sexual violence” march ahead of Boobs on Bikes
Tuesday, 6 October 2015, 3:08 pm | Stop Demand
Tomorrow’s controversial Boobs on Bikes march, led by pornographer Steve Crow and featuring international porn stars, will be preceded by a sexual violence and harms of pornography march organised by advocacy group Stop Demand Foundation. More >>
