The Council supports the right to protest. The Council was founded in response to the 1951 Waterfront Lockout. While our … Keep reading “Submission: Contraception, Sterilisation, and Abortion (Safe Areas) Amendment Bill”
Following up from our written submission, we also made an oral submission to the Governance & Administration Select Committee. … Keep reading “Submission: Oral re Internet Censorship (FVPC Amendment Bill)”
NZCCL chairperson Thomas Beagle was a panellist with David Hood on the Pulse of a Nation session at the New … Keep reading “Video: Pulse of a Nation at New Echo Systems”
The Committee of the NZ Council for Civil Liberties make its monthly meetings open to anyone who wishes to attend,
Transparency International and the PSA are hosting a discussion of the proposed changes to New Zealand's whistleblowing laws.
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The National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Otago is hosting New Ec(h)o systems: Democracy in … Keep reading “New Ec(h)o systems: Democracy in the Age of Social Media”
In December 2020, the Council took part in a closed evaluation of Aotearoa’s Government Chief Data Steward’s (GCDS) 2018 … Keep reading “Aotearoa’s Data Strategy”
The Council supports the Protected Disclosures (Protection of Whistleblowers) Bill and makes suggestions to strengthen it.
The ability to ‘blow … Keep reading “Submission: Protected Disclosures”
The Council opposes the Firearms Prohibition Orders (No 2) bill. The Council continues to oppose all legislation which misrepresents … Keep reading “Submission: Firearms Prohibition Orders”
The Council started off 2020 well with our policy and strategy sessions putting us in … Keep reading “Chairperson’s Report 2020”
Join our expert panel lead by our Chairperson Thomas Beagle for a discussion of the impact of facial recognition on … Keep reading “Panel: Facial Recognition & Human Rights”
We are disappointed that the government recently passed a law that would have been highly contentious if it hadn’t been … Keep reading “Urgency and overreach is not democracy”
Today the government announced that, while it supported the use of encryption on the internet, it was proposing to fatally … Keep reading “Media release: Government’s dangerous statement about encryption doesn’t make sense”
The Child Poverty Action Group, Greenpeace, Forest and Bird, JustSpeak, New Zealand Council for Civil Liberties and Amnesty International are … Keep reading “Joint calls for overhaul of OIA”
The 2020 election is approaching and the political parties are starting to make their promises. Rather than score the parties' … Keep reading “2020 Election: what we’d like to see from the parties”
The Council for Civil Liberties has made a slightly late submission to the Environment Select Committee on the Covid-19 Response … Keep reading “Submission: Covid-19 Response (Fast Track Consenting) Bill”
After complaints that the government rushed through the Covid-19 Public Health Response Act with barely 16 hours for a selected … Keep reading “Submission: Covid-19 Public Health Response Act”
The NZ Council for Civil Liberties made a submission to the Select Committee considering the Screen Industry Workers Bill.… Keep reading “Submission: Screen Industry Workers Bill”
We were recently asked if we would provide feedback on the government’s draft Covid-19 Public Health Response Bill. This … Keep reading “NZCCL response to the Covid-19 Public Health Response Bill”
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