SiteMap

• About HRN
  Learn about the aims and activities of the Network and the people involved.
  • About the HRN
    Learn about the aims and activities of the Network, and the people involved.
  • HRN Trust
• Support Us
  Raising funds for the Human Rights Network.
  • Donate to the Human Rights Network
    The Human Rights Network relies on financial donations, project funding and donations of professional services and time to survive.
  • Funding the Human Rights Network
    The Human Rights Network relies on donations from members and grants.
  • Support the Human Rights Network
    Different ways to support the Human Rights Network of Aotearoa New Zealand.
• Projects
  Projects being carried out by Human Rights Network members.
  • Human Rights Approach to Development
    Aim: To further NZ's commitment to a human rights approach to development.
  • Funders
    Organisations who fund human rights activities.
  • Make Poverty History Campaign
    Aim: To bring about urgent policy reform on the linked issues of trade, aid and debt and the national issue of child poverty in New Zealand/Aotearoa.
  • Building human rights communities education initiative
    Project purpose: To explore and promote the development of New Zealand schools and early childhood education centres as "human rights communities" - ie communities that explicitly recognise, respect and are committed to human rights.
  • Aotearoa Global And Development Education Network
    Workspace for a number of global/development education practitioners developing a new association.
  • Article28
    Article28 is a non-profit endeavour for promotion, education and facilitation aimed at contributing to the realisation of Article 28 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Everyone is entitled to a social and international order in which human rights and freedoms can be fully realised. Membership is by invitation based on expertise in a relevant field
• Voices
  What people are saying about putting human rights into practice.
  • The importance of civil society organisations in promoting and protecting human rights and harmonious race relations
    Speech for the Annual General Meeting of the Human Rights Network, Wellington, 16 April 2004, by Joris de Bres, Race Relations Commissioner.
  • HRC Speakers Forum: Human Rights and the Foreshore and Seabed
    Human Rights Commision Speakers Forum in Wellington by Hon Dr Michael Cullen on 01 June 2004.
  • Social Justice is Gaining Momentum
    The very controversial economic, social and cultural rights first championed by New Zealand at the United Nations almost 56 years ago, have finally got significant recognition in this country in the Human Rights Commission's major study, Human Rights in New Zealand Today, released last month.
  • Duncan Sarkie's Speech at HR Film Festival
    I’m a writer, and I once attended a playwrights conference – a world playwrights conference with delegates gathered from all around the world – Chile, the Phillipines, Papua New Guinea, Ghana, South Africa, the Netherlands, Poland, many corners of the globe. Unfortunately everyone there assumed I was a Russian writer based on my pale skin and general impoverished look.
• Polls
  • New Site Look
    What do you think of the new site?
  • HR Schools
    Are you in favour of having NZ schools as human rights communities?
• News
  Human rights news on a variety of global and local themes, submitted by Network members.
• Events
  Events related to human rights submitted by network members for publication on this site.
  • Downloads
    Collection of documents / attachments to various events.
• Communities
  Communities formed by and for Network members.
  • Education
    A collaborative workspace for all those interested in the right to education, including human rights education.
  • International Development
    A collaborative workspace for those interested in international development and human rights
• About human rights
  Describes human rights.
  • About human rights
    Human Rights are those rights that everyone everywhere has by virtue of being human.
  • Human rights instruments
    Declarations, conventions and other instruments that seek to represent the world's human rights norms.
• Big issues
  Significant domestic and international human rights issues.
  • Great National Debate and Human Rights
    Articles and links relating to the 'great national debate' taking place in Aotearoa New Zealand on rights for Maori and non-Maori, and the future of Aotearoa New Zealand.
  • War on Terrorism
    An eclectic collection of articles looking at the "war on terrorism" and its effect on different dimensions of human rights.
  • Ahmed Zaoui
    Articles and links about the case of Ahmed Zaoui.
• Human rights topics
  Information on specific human rights issues and themes.
  • Children
    "The child, by reason of his physical and mental immaturity, needs special safeguards and care, including appropriate legal protection, before as well as after birth"
  • Development
    Development, n. the progressive realisation of human rights.
  • Disability
    "Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control."
  • Economic, social and cultural rights
    Organisations and websites dedicated to economic, social and cultural rights.
  • Education
    "Everyone has the right to education. Education shall be free...in the elementary and fundamental stages....Technical and professional education shall be made generally available and higher education shall be equally accessible to all on the basis of merit. Education shall be directed to the full development of the human personality and to the strengthening of respect for human rights.... "
  • Environment
    The right to live in a healthy or satisfactory environment.
  • Ethnic minorities
    A focus on the rights of migrants and refugees.
  • Freedom of expression
    "Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers"
  • Gender
    "All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights."
  • General
    Human Rights links of a general or cross-cutting nature.
  • History
    The history of human rights.
  • Indigenous people
    "Indigenous peoples have the right to the full and effective enjoyment of all of the human rights and fundamental freedoms which are recognized in the Charter of the United Nations and in the human rights law. Indigenous individuals and peoples are free and equal to all other individuals and peoples in dignity and rights, and have the right to be free from any kind of adverse discrimination, in particular that based on their indigenous origin or identity. Indigenous people have the right of self-determination...."
  • International Law
    International law and human rights.
  • Peace and security
    Including the arms trade and the International Criminal Court.
  • Poverty
    "Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family..."
  • Regional
    Topics with a strong regional focus.
  • Technology
    Technology and human rights.
  • Torture
    "No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment."