Human Rights

Amnesty International   (www.amnesty.org.nz)  

Homepage of Amnesty International.

Human Rights Commission   (www.hrc.co.nz)  

Acts to uphold the Human Rights Act 1993.

Human Rights Film Festival   (www.humanrightsfilmfest.net.nz)  

A film festival featuring documentaries from across the globe and touching on a range of human rights issues. The event, held in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch, aims to increase awareness of human rights issues and raise New Zealand’s profile as a human rights society internationally.

Barrier Free New Zealand   (www.barrierfreenz.org.nz)  

Aiming to facilitate and encourage solutions for the provision of Universal Access for all people.

ACYA   (www.acya.org.nz)  

Providing human rights for the youth of New Zealand.

Right to Life New Zealand   (www.right-to-life.org)  

A Pro-Life organisation concerned with life issues such as Abortion, Euthanasia, RU 486, and Bio-ethical issues such as cloning, personhood and stem cell research.

FreeZaoui.org.nz   (www.freezaoui.org.nz)  

Find out more about the dissent over the way the New Zealand Government has treated refugee Ahmed Zaoui.

Council for Socially Responsible Investment   (www.csri.org.nz)  

A socially responsible investment definition, socially responsible investing and ethical investing.

Violence Free Wairarapa Campaign   (www.vfw.org.nz)  

The campaign is a Wairarapa wide community response to the violence that we have all suffered.

Building Tomorrow   (www.buildingtomorrow.org.nz)  

Preventing child abuse in New Zealand.

Human Rights Network   (www.humanrights.net.nz)  

A network of New Zealanders - individuals, non-governmental and other organisations - sharing information to pursue national and international progress in human rights.

Hate Speech   (www.hatespeech.co.nz)  

Hate speech legislation is unnecessary and undesirable. New Zealand law already sets clear and enforceable limits on speech and strikes a fair balance between freedom of speech and the protection of racial, religious and other identifiable minority groups.

The Good Mother - An E-Novel about Child Abuse (kathy.orcon.net.nz/goodmother.html)  

Kathy M. Dixon's novel is now available in e-book form and here you can sample 'The Good Mother' - prologue and chapter one - for free.

Stop Demand   (www.stopdemand.org)  

Global action to stop all forms of sexual violence against children.

Palestine Human Rights Campaign   (www.palestine.org.nz)  

Informing the New Zealand public about Palestinian resistance to Israeli occupation and to expose and counter anti-Arab and anti-Palestinian racism and propaganda.