Tag: human rights commission
In early 2021, Wellington Pride Festival cancelled an application for a stall at Out In The City for the group Lesbian Action for Visibility Aotearoa (LAVA). Now their right to refuse LAVA’s stall will be debated at a Human Rights Review Tribunal next year.
Wellington Pride Co-Chairs Tasmin Prichard...
Justice Minister Paul Goldsmith has appointed Dr Stephen Rainbow as head of the anti-discrimination Human Rights Commission. Craig Young assesses what the appointment of a centre-right gay man, means for the commission.
At sixty-three, Rainbow has had a broad spectrum of political affiliations, starting with Labour in the eighties and...
"We all have the right to be free from discrimination and treated with fairness and respect,” the HRC says.
The Human Rights Commission has written to NZ police, asking them to improve their processes for dealing with transgender people.
The intervention from the HRC comes after an incident in which...
The ACT Party leader speaks to express about abolishing the Human Rights Commission and gives his prediction on the referendum results set to be realised this afternoon.
ACT Party leader David Seymour is calling for the abolition of the Human Rights Commission (HRC), telling express it has done nothing...
