Human Rights

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• ACYA   (www.acya.org.nz)

  Providing human rights for the youth of New Zealand.

• Amnesty International   (www.amnesty.org.nz)

  Homepage of Amnesty International.

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

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

• Building Tomorrow   (www.buildingtomorrow.org.nz)

  Preventing child abuse in New Zealand.

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

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

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Stop Demand   (www.stopdemand.org)

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

• 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.

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

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