2025 is Auckland Women’s Centre’s 50th birthday! Yes, we’ve been crashing several waves of feminism into patriarchal monuments for half a century now, from 1975. Rā whānau ki a tatou! Turning 50 feels good. It feels big. It feels like something to celebrate – with a whole festival season of 50th birthday events: Ladi6: AWC 50th ...
Public Statement of the Coalition for the Safety of Women and Children re the Crown’s disestablishment of Te Pūkotahitanga, a Māori partnership body for the elimination of family violence and sexual violence 2 July for immediate release The following can be attributed to Leonie Morris, the Chair for the Coalition for the Safety of Women ...
Feminist math = community power By our collective powers combined, we can create spectacular things for all wāhine and women in Aotearoa. In other words, a lot of people donating a little goes a long way. So: thank you for joining the Fab 500 in our 50th year, and standing in solidarity with women with ...
Tues 10 June for immediate release from Aotearoa Free From Stalking Changes to the proposed anti-stalking law are welcome but they don’t go far enough say community victim advocates. Leonie Morris, Manager of the Aotearoa Free From Stalking (AFFS) project at the Auckland Women’s Centre, says it is unlikely the bill will cover stalkers who ...
The Regulatory Standards Bill is a deliberately boring name – but it is nothing short of constitutional warfare. It is an extremist move to steal power away from Māori, women and democracy (that’s all of us) in order to give even more power to corporations & their wealthy owners. What is and is not in ...
Click the union names for events listings: NZCTU and E Tu. Click here to make a submission to the unofficial People’s Select Committee on Pay Equity by 31 July 2025 The below is based on our May 7 newsletter, with updates re the People’s Select Committee. May 6 was “a dark day for New Zealand ...
Emma Jehle-Elvidge now looks after Women’s Support (free advice, referral and information), and coordinates our community education programme. Emma is a fantastic addition to our team, as the wonderful Awatea Mita continues as kaiwhakatuhono for our Aotearoa Free From Stalking project. Kind, practical and energetic, Emma finished her studies in Law and Arts (sociology ...
By Awatea Mita (justice scholar and kaiwhakatuhono for Aotearoa Free From Stalking) Aotearoa New Zealand often touts a strong history of supporting women’s rights, taking great pride in being the first country to grant women the right to vote in 1893. However, we have regressed, and it might come as a revelation to some that ...
Media release, 1 May 2025 Auckland Women’s Centre is the latest in a growing number of organisations expressing serious concerns regarding the draft Relationships and Sexuality Education (RSE) Framework for schools. Leonie Morris, Project Lead for the Centre’s Aotearoa Free From Stalking campaign described the draft framework as “a significant failure in supporting the diverse ...
These descriptions are drawn from our community kōrero about the health system with Lady Tureiti Moxon and Dr Elana Curtis in March 2025. Healthcare for Māori should not just be needs-based but also rights-based Whereas “equitable outcomes” can refer to any two or more groups – not just ethnic groups, and not just Māori – ...
