Update 14 May: You can read our submission on the RSE guidelines here. April 2025 The government is attempting to impose its extremist transphobic, racist, colonial and misogynistic views on the next generation via wholesale changes to education about relationships & sexuality. You can let them know what they’re doing is unacceptable. The sensitive and ...
Tautoko to Tamatha Paul and everyone else working hard to ameliorate authorities’ immediate and ongoing responses to crisis and emergency – whether due to violence, other crimes, and/or health emergencies including mental distress. Many individuals and communities have reason not to trust the police, including many women experiencing family violence, sexual violence or other forms ...
Our expanded counselling programme now has a fantastic coordinator to provide supervision to students on placement with us, and to match women seeking counselling with the best-fit counsellor for them. We’re delighted that our inaugural counselling services coordinator is Veronica Cusack, one of our very first placement students (after a career change), now graduated! Veronica ...
Update 9 May 2025: We received a reply from the Minister – note it is dated 9 May, while mentioning an opportunity to give feedback on the draft RSE framework which closed on… 9 May. The Minister’s response is here (in non-accessible form, with non-live links, as it was sent to us). We already knew ...
(aka: don’t sleep on MāoriPlus, they have amazing material from Aotearoa and around the world) International Women’s Day is celebrated on Saturday 8 March this year – so we’ve curated a weekend reading/watching/learning list for you all – several parts fun to some parts serious – on the extremely timely 2025 United Nations theme: “For ...
Karawhiua – you can do it! Telling personal stories can make a difference. Part of the usual process of law-making – turning Bills into Acts of Parliament – is the public getting to have their say on the proposed new law. Anybody can write a submission to whichever select committee of MPs is reviewing the ...
Ma te kotahitanga e whai kaha ai tātou In unity we have strength The Auckland Women’s Centre “Aotearoa Free From Stalking” submission on the anti-stalking bill (aka the Crimes Legislation (Stalking and Harassment) Legislation Bill) made 15 recommendations urging critical changes to ensure the bill meets its goals. Our submission is informed by the 90 ...
This Waitangi Day 2025, we’re reflecting on wāhine Māori thought leadership for activism and advocacy: The quotes above are just some of the huge encouragement for change-makers which incredible thinkers have shared in our community kōrero over the last five years. These particular quotes from Tracey McIntosh, Debbie Ngarewa-Packer and Ngāhuia te Awekōtuku speak to ...
Let’s make the new anti-stalking law as good as possible Kia kaha, kia maia, kia manawanui! We want a law to help survivors and whānau, and prevent stalking – this submission guide advises on how you can help. Submissions and Parliament’s informal anonymous survey are now open on the Crimes Legislation (Stalking and Harassment) Amendment ...
Ways you can inform the anti-stalking law We are encouraging people to inform the Crimes Legislation (Harassment and Stalking) Amendment Bill, particularly if they feel able and safe to share real-life stories of stalking which are relevant to the parts of the Bill which need to change (click here for our submission content guide). There ...
