NZ Humanists
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Submission on 2024 Education and Training Amendment Bill – Charter Schools submission
Humanist Society of New Zealand Submission on 2024 Education and Training Amendment Bill – Charter Schools submission 29 July 2024 admin@humanist.nz About the Humanist Society of New Zealand The Humanist Society of New Zealand is a national charity working to promote Humanism, support and represent the non-religious and promote a secular state and equal treatment […]
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Submission on the End of Life Choices Bill
Today we made a submission in support of the End of Life Choices Bill. You can read our submission below. Justice Committee SecretariatCommittee SecretariatJustice CommitteeParliament BuildingsWellington 29 January 2018 To the Justice Committee, Submission on the End of Life Choices BillThis submission is from the Humanist Society of New Zealand (Inc.) We wish to appear […]
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2021 Freedom of Thought Report
Humanist New Zealand, promoting humanism, secularism, reason, and science is pleased to see the Launch of the Freedom of Thought Report 2021 prepared by Humanists International. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948 enshrines the fundamental right to freedom of thought, conscience, and religion in article 18. Article 18 of the International Covenant on Civil […]
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Humanists New Zealand supports ban on so-called “conversion therapy”
On 7 September the Humanist Society made a submission in support of the ban of so-called “conversion therapy”. You can read our full submission below. About Humanist Society of NZ (Inc.) The Humanist Society of New Zealand (Inc.) is a secular organisation that supports Human Rights. Humanism embodies a secular approach to ethics and morality, and […]
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Humanist NZ’s views on the Ministry of Justice’s discussion document “Proposals against incitement of hatred and discrimination”
This response is from the Humanist Society of NZ (Humanist NZ), a secular organisation with an interest in Human Rights with a particular emphasis on the rights of non-religious people. The Ministry of Justice is considering changes to legislation in response to the report from the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the terrorist attack at […]
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Please Help Nigerian Humanist Mubarak Bala
Humanists around the world have been eagerly watching and waiting for developments in the case of human rights advocate Mubarak Bala, President of the Humanist Association of Nigeria. On 28 April 2020, Mubarak was arrested and taken from his home in Kaduna state, Nigeria, by officers from Kano State Police Command, after he was accused […]
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Submission to the Health Select Committee currently considering the Crimes (Definition of Female Genital Mutilation) Amendment Bill
In January we made a submission in support of the Crimes (Definition of Female Genital Mutilation) Amendment Bill. We also proposed that an obligation be imposed upon all medical practitioners to provide relevant details to their local Medical Officers of Health whenever, in their daily practice, they observe a case where FGM has been performed on […]
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Our oral submission on the Terrorism Suppression (Control Orders) Bill
On Thursday 14 November we appeared before the Foreign Affairs, Defence, and Trade select committee with our submission on the Terrorism Suppression (Control Orders) Bill. Our oral submission was supported by Gulalai Ismail, a Pashtun human rights activist who fled Pakistan after a First Information Report was raised by the Pakistani police, accusing her of an “anti-state and […]
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No religion overtakes Christianity in 2018 census results
Humanists are calling for an end to the concessions afforded to Christian groups, as the number of non-religious people overtakes all other belief groups in New Zealand combined. This week, the release of data from the latest census has confirmed that New Zealand’s non-religious population continues to grow, with 48% of the population now identifying […]
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Humanist Society welcomes the repeal of New Zealand’s Blasphemy Law
Humanist New Zealand congratulates members of the New Zealand parliament on their unanimous vote this week to repeal Section 123 of the Crimes Act 1961, the law against Blasphemous Libel. Humanist NZ has long called on the government to scrap our outdated blasphemy law. This landmark decision is a clear sign of our country’s commitment […]
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Submission to MoE on Religious Instruction
Overview In general terms, the document does a good job of trying to bring potential issues with offering religious instruction to the attention of schools. These issues are both legal and ethical, and it is important that the focus of this document is kept on the rights and wellbeing of the children. We would like […]
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Freedom of Thought report for sixth year running shames New Zealand for discrimination against non-religious people
The 2017 edition of the 2017 Freedom of Thought Report has today highlighted “severe discrimination” against non-religious people in New Zealand. The report, published by the International Humanist and Ethical Union, has called New Zealand out for the severity of our outdated blasphemy law that is still lingering in our legislation, despite repeated attempts to […]