Tag: Human Rights

The revelations that Air New Zealand has been flying Australian combat troops across the Pacific and up to the Iraqi border is an appalling piece of misjudgement by the airline, Green Party Foreign Affairs Spokesperson Keith Locke says.

Green MP Keith Locke today expressed concern about the deteriorating health of Iranian hunger striker, Ali Panah, after visiting him in Auckland hospital.

Green Party Human Rights Spokesperson Keith Locke and Chinese dissident Chen Yonglin will be among speakers at a rally being held at Parliament on Thursday the 19th of July.

The Greens will be supporting this bill to remove the sedition laws from the statute book. Those laws are not consistent with a vibrant democracy or with our New Zealand Bill of Rights Act.

Question 4

The Green Party has criticised the Government for equivocating about whether nor not the Prime Minister will meet the Dalai Lama when he visits Wellington next Tuesday.

New Zealand is privileged to have the Dalai Lama visiting our shores next week.

The Green Party is celebrating the 20th anniversary of New Zealand's Nuclear Free Legislation, but says there is still a lot to do.

Amnesty International's critical report should inspire New Zealand to improve its human rights record, the Green Party says.