by Peter Harrison | Aug 14, 2017 | News
We strongly support the right of people to end their lives when due to persistent chronic suffering or terminal illness they rationally choose to do so. To keep people alive against their will in the face of unending suffering is quite simply inhuman. This is not...
by Peter Harrison | Aug 14, 2017 | News
We seek the repeal of laws which criminalize speech against religion. While this law has not successfully been used to achieve a conviction it has been invoked on occasion. But more seriously this law gives moral cover for other countries not only to enact blasphemy...
by Peter Harrison | Jul 3, 2017 | News
The NZ Rationalists and Humanists have committed to meeting donations dollar for dollar up to $50,000 to support the campaign to end the discriminatory practice of religious instruction in New Zealand primary schools. David Hines and Tanya Jacob have filed a case...
by Peter Harrison | Jan 1, 2017 | Schools Campaign
A complaint against the Human Rights Commission has been laid by the New Zealand Association of Rationalists and Humanists, citing the HRC’s failure to address state sanctioned religious discrimination in primary schools. Peter Harrison, President of the Rationalists...
by Peter Harrison | May 20, 2011 | Blog, Journal
In life if you only aim for what is easily achieved you will only ever achieve the mediocre. It is better to challenge yourself and fail than to sit on the sidelines and watch others take up the challenge. The fact is that we have only one life, and the only measure...
