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Support For “What Is A Woman” Bill By Left-Leaning Party Voters Has Shifted Markedly In The Past Year
Wednesday, 20 May 2026, 4:44 pm | Women's Rights Party
The biggest shift has been amongst Te Pati Māori voters – a majority now support defining women and men in sex-realist terms. More >>
Ministry Of Health Should Place Higher Priority On Mental Health Of Women And Girls
Wednesday, 20 May 2026, 11:34 am | Women's Rights Party
The Women’s Rights Party is calling on Government to remove gender identity ideology in all its forms – from legislation, government policies, in our universities and schools, and in language used to describe women, particularly in women’s health. More >>
Mum’s The Word – Not! Health NZ Skirts Around Using The Word ‘Mother’, Unless It’s Unavoidable
Thursday, 16 April 2026, 9:10 am | Women's Rights Party
The word 'mother' can be found just 14 times in 184 pages, and then only where reference to mothers couldn’t be avoided as in what is contained on the death certificate. More >>
Lawyers Query Speaker's Office Refusals To Fly Suffrage Flag On Suffrage Day
Monday, 30 March 2026, 6:39 pm | Women's Rights Party
The lawyers have invited the Office of the Speaker to either grant the request, or alternatively provide a more coherent and rationally-consistent explanation for refusing the Request. They have yet to receive a response. More >>
Changes To Human Rights Act Not A Priority, Government Says
Wednesday, 25 February 2026, 9:33 am | Women's Rights Party
In its formal response to Parliament on 23 February, the Government said that as it “currently has significant commitments and priorities in the justice portfolio, progressing the Commission’s recommendations is not a priority at this time”. More >>
Ministry Needs To Correct Disinformation About Puberty Blockers Ban
Tuesday, 25 November 2025, 6:29 pm | Women's Rights Party
The Women’s Rights Party says the unquestioning use of puberty blockers for the rapidly expanding cohort of adolescent girls suddenly experiencing gender distress was a dereliction of medical ethics akin to the ‘Unfortunate Experiment’. More >>
Action On Puberty Blockers Welcome, But Why Did It Take So Long?
Thursday, 20 November 2025, 4:22 pm | Women's Rights Party
The Ministry of Health consulted on safety measures for the use of puberty blockers in gender-related health following the release of the evidence brief. This consultation closed 20 January. More >>
Top Cop Frames His Victim As The Villain And We Wonder Why Women Don’t Trust The Police
Thursday, 13 November 2025, 10:33 am | Women's Rights Party
The IPCA Report has highlighted the role of pornography and prevalence of sexual predators in our community, including in the Police, and disturbingly, how they are protected by many men in high places, the Women’s Rights Party says. More >>
Sex Matters In Life, Language And Law
Thursday, 4 September 2025, 5:03 pm | Women's Rights Party
The Law Commission’s recommendations include amending some of the exceptions to clarify that the provisions do not allow people to be excluded from spaces that match their ‘gender identity’. More >>
Sex Matters When It Comes To Human Rights
Sunday, 3 August 2025, 4:32 pm | Women's Rights Party
When it comes to women’s rights, sex matters. That is because, in addition to “sex” being a prohibited ground in terms of discrimination in the Human Rights Act 1993, there are a number of exceptions in the Act that allow positive discrimination to ... More >>
Pay Equity Law Breaches CEDAW, Women’s Rights Party Says
Thursday, 31 July 2025, 4:55 pm | Women's Rights Party
The Women’s Rights Party said the government was in breach of New Zealand’s commitments to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) by denying women the right: “To participate in the formulation of government ... More >>
Women’s Rights Party Complains To Human Rights Commission Over Its Misinformation About The Human Rights Act
Tuesday, 29 July 2025, 6:10 pm | Women's Rights Party
In her complaint to the HRC, Jill Ovens, co-leader of the Women’s Rights Party, said, “You can’t self-identify into a sports category and claim this is your human right.” More >>
Women's Rights Party On The Pay Equity Issue
Sunday, 11 May 2025, 2:22 pm | Women's Rights Party
The Women’s Rights Party says that cutting back on pay equity for women workers will have a long-lasting effect. More >>
Women Say Thank You, Associate Health Minister Casey Costello
Tuesday, 15 April 2025, 6:23 pm | Women's Rights Party
Women’s Rights Party Co-leader Jill Ovens says the issue is about language being used by Health NZ and the Ministry of Health in policies and health information relating to women's health. It is not about how individuals are treated. More >>
Saving Money With Cheap Lunches Is A Waste Of Money If Kids Can't Eat Them
Sunday, 9 March 2025, 12:39 pm | Women's Rights Party
Women’s Rights Co-leader Jill Ovens says the well documented failures of Compass and its partners to deliver edible food on time to our nation’s children is not actually saving money if the children cannot eat the meals. More >>
Call For Suffrage Day To Become A National Public Holiday
Tuesday, 4 March 2025, 3:42 pm | Women's Rights Party
The petition has been initiated by the Women’s Rights Party and Life Member Sandi Hall, a former leader of the New Zealand Women’s Political Party women, a feminist political party founded in 1982 that contested the 1984 snap election. More >>
Giving Police More Powers To Constrain Protest Is Not A Solution To Police Failings, Women’s Rights Party Says
Thursday, 20 February 2025, 8:03 am | Women's Rights Party
An Independent Police Conduct Authority report released yesterday [Wednesday, 18 February] puts the failure of policing the Let Women Speak event down to inadequate risk assessments and inadequate planning and resourcing as a result. More >>
Action On Puberty Blockers Too Little; Too Late, Women's Rights Party Says
Monday, 20 January 2025, 6:54 pm | Women's Rights Party
Women’s Rights Party Co-leader Jill Ovens says the questions are odd, given there are no safety measures currently in place, and the use of puberty blockers (GnRH) to treat conditions related to “gender distress” is not a registered use of the ... More >>
New Sex Education Curriculum Should Be Age Appropriate And Scientifically Accurate, Women’s Rights Party Says
Thursday, 12 December 2024, 6:23 pm | Women's Rights Party
The current guidelines, which cover 1-10 yrs, are to be replaced by a refreshed curriculum that would define the core knowledge & skills students should learn at each age, & will look at extending compulsory relationships & sexuality education to senior ... More >>
More Delays In Action On Use Of Puberty Blockers With Children
Thursday, 21 November 2024, 6:56 pm | Women's Rights Party
Women’s Rights Party Co-leader Jill Ovens says the Ministry has put New Zealand children at risk by continuing to allow “off-label” prescribing of puberty blockers at far higher rates than other similar countries. More >>
