Tag: Human Rights

Below is the letter that Keith Locke has sent today to the captors of Harmeet Sooden, via Al Jazeera.

Proposed amendments to terrorism legislation would undermine New Zealanders' rights to challenge terrorist designations, Green Party Human Rights Spokesperson Keith Locke says

Air New Zealand and Qantas are wrong to ban men from sitting alongside unaccompanied children on their planes, Green Party Human Rights Spokesperson Keith Locke says.

This afternoon I joined New Zealand unionists outside the Australian High Commission to express the solidarity of the Green Party with those in Australia resisting the repressive anti-union legislatio

Internal Affairs Minister Rick Barker's claim that the new 'e-passport' is mainly being introduced to enhance the security of the document is being disputed by Green Party Human Rights Spokesperson Keith Locke.

Green Party MP Keith Locke has expressed his sadness at the injury of a New Zealand SAS soldier in Afghanistan, and asked for a reassessment of the SAS role there.

Police commanders should make sure unacceptable behaviour within the force is reported to them, Green Police spokesperson Keith Locke says.

Keith is in Tonga over the next couple of days, as pro-democracy strikes escalate. frog spoke to him about why he's there, what he's doing, and what's happening. The interview is here (mp3, 8.45 mins, 1.0MB).

Green MP Keith Locke will travel to Tonga tonight to lend support to the movement for democratic reform there, which is currently focused around a month-long civil servants' strike.