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NZ's Pension System Scores Poorly On Income Adequacy, And It Is Women Who Suffer The Most In Retirement

Thursday, 17 October 2024, 6:04 pm | Women's Rights Party

The ranking, released yesterday by Mercer NZ, a financial services provider specialising in retirement and superannuation, looked at schemes' adequacy, sustainability and integrity. It ranked New Zealand a B overall, with a ranking of 14th mainly because ... More >>

Does This Government Want The People's Views To Be Heard?

Tuesday, 1 October 2024, 6:02 pm | Women's Rights Party

“I’ve never known Select Committees to have such tight timelines for oral submissions. I fear that this government doesn’t really want to hear from those whose views don’t align with theirs.” More >>

Surrogacy Commodifies Women, Says Women’s Rights Party

Wednesday, 18 September 2024, 6:53 pm | Women's Rights Party

While commercial surrogacy is technically illegal in New Zealand, the involvement of fertility services in surrogacy through assisted reproductive technology is a commercial activity paid for by intending parents, with potential harm for birth ... More >>

Misogyny Behind Attacks On Women's Rights Campaigners And Women Politicians, The Women's Rights Party Says

Sunday, 15 September 2024, 11:01 pm | Women's Rights Party

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 ... More >>

Tickle V Giggle: Implications For NZ

Saturday, 24 August 2024, 6:28 pm | Women's Rights Party

The case illustrates why legislating for both sex self-ID and the inclusion of ‘gender identity’ in sex discrimination legislation erodes boundaries that allow women to meet in women-only spaces, the Women’s Rights Party says. More >>

Sall Grover, ‘Tickle V Giggle’ To Tour New Zealand, 4-10 July

Saturday, 22 June 2024, 3:56 pm | Women's Rights Party

Public meetings are being held in Auckland [4 July], New Plymouth [6 July], Wellington [9 July], and Christchurch [10 July]. More >>

Don’t Wreck Queenstown Lakes District, Women’s Rights Party Urges

Tuesday, 28 May 2024, 7:20 am | Women's Rights Party

The Women’s Rights Party opposed the draft by-law changes and called on the Council to support the women of Queenstown and Wanaka with liveable wages, affordable housing, and effective exit services so women are not forced into prostitution to survive ... More >>

Health Ministry Should Ban Puberty Blockers, Women’s Rights Party Says

Friday, 19 April 2024, 9:36 am | Women's Rights Party

The Women’s Rights Party is calling on the Ministry of Health to ban the use of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones for children and young people experiencing gender-related distress. In March the National Health Service England banned the ... More >>

Midwifery Petition Presented To Parliament on 09 April

Wednesday, 10 April 2024, 11:40 am | Women's Rights Party

Mrs Hayes said the replacement of the words “woman” and “mother” with the broader term “whānau” was among other changes to the current midwifery scope of practice opposed by 90% of respondents in a feedback document released by the ... More >>

Midwifery Council Erasing The Words ‘women’ And ‘mothers’

Sunday, 28 January 2024, 9:45 pm | Women's Rights Party

Once a world leader in focusing the benefits of women-centred care, the government-appointed Midwifery Council that regulates the practice of midwifery is now intending to erase the words “woman” and “mother” from its scope of practice. The replacement ... More >>

Coalition Agreement Sheds Light On Gender Ideology That Has Captured Policy And Law Making

Tuesday, 28 November 2023, 9:30 am | Women's Rights Party

“Ring the bells, ring the bells that still can ring; forget your perfect offering; there is a crack in everything; that’s how the light gets in.” So sang Leonard Cohen in his 1992 “Anthem” which sums up Women’s Rights Party members’ reaction ... More >>

Women’s Rights Party Supports #NoExcuses Campaign To Combat Violence Against Womenwomen's rights

Monday, 27 November 2023, 10:08 am | Women's Rights Party

The Women’s Rights Party wholeheartedly supports the United Nations 16-day #NoExcuse media campaign, launched on November 25 to mark International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. The campaign launch coincided with White Ribbon Day in ... More >>

Women’s Rights Party calls for an enquiry into the medicalisation of children with gender dysphoria

Saturday, 18 November 2023, 8:19 am | Women's Rights Party

Children under 18 should not be given puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, or gender reassignment surgery in order to change the appearance of their biological sex, the Women’s Rights Party says. More >>

Younger Voters And Aucklanders Most Likely To Consider Voting Women’s Rights Party This Election

Wednesday, 27 September 2023, 11:42 am | Women's Rights Party

  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. In a poll conducted by Curia Market Research commissioned by the Women’s Rights ... More >>

Women's Rights Party Commemorating Suffrage Day With Actions Around The Country

Monday, 18 September 2023, 7:47 pm | Women's Rights Party

Most years women attend early breakfasts on Suffrage Day [tomorrow, Tuesday, 19 September] to listen to speeches from high profile women celebrating the successes of women in business, the Public Service and politics. After all we currently have ... More >>

Women’s Rights Party Pleased To See Women’s Rights As An Election Issue

Saturday, 19 August 2023, 3:51 pm | Women's Rights Party

The Women’s Rights Party is taking to the road on a nationwide tour from today to meet with New Zealanders concerned about the erosion of sex-based rights, just as politicians from the Left and Right are desperately trying to avoid making this ... More >>

Changes To Human Rights Act Will Harm Women And Girls, Women's Rights Party Says

Friday, 11 August 2023, 6:24 pm | Women's Rights Party

A new Bill to add “gender identity or expression” as prohibited grounds for discrimination will harm women’s sex-based rights, currently protected in the Human Rights Act 1993, the Women’s Rights Party says. The Human Rights (Prohibition of ... More >>

Safer Online Services And Media Platforms Proposal Will Silence Women

Monday, 31 July 2023, 11:11 am | Women's Rights Party

The Women’s Rights Party says the Government’s proposal for “Safer Online Services and Media Platforms” will silence dissenting voices, and censor conversations about topics that urgently need discussion. In its submission to the “Safer Online ... More >>

Pay Equity About Sex-based Discrimination; Not Gender

Saturday, 8 July 2023, 6:18 pm | Women's Rights Party

The Women’s Rights Party congratulates Te Whatu Ora employed midwives on their interim pay equity settlement, which goes some way to addressing the established undervaluation of these midwives due to the fact that midwives are almost all women. ... More >>

Paddy Gower’s Issues Is A “fail” On So Many Levels, Women’s Rights Party Says

Friday, 30 June 2023, 5:38 am | Women's Rights Party

There were so many holes in Paddy Gower’s investigation into transgender issues, you could write a book about it, the Women’s Rights Party says. “Of course, several have written books outlining the harm that gender identity ideology is doing to our ... More >>

 

 
 
 
 
 

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