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Submission on 2024 Education and Training Amendment Bill – Charter Schools submission
Humanist Society of New Zealand Submission on 2024 Education and Training Amendment Bill – Charter Schools submission 29 July 2024 admin@humanist.nz About the Humanist Society of New Zealand The Humanist Society of New Zealand is a national charity working to promote Humanism, support and represent the non-religious and promote a secular state and equal treatment…
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Civil Union Bill and the Relationships (Statutory References) Bill – Justice and Electoral Committee
Introduction This submission is from the Humanist Society of New Zealand. The Humanist Society of New Zealand (Inc.) represents the interests of non-theistic people in New Zealand. We seek to build a more humane society based on human and other natural values. New Zealand census figures indicate that 25% of the population have no religious…
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Crimes (Abolition of Force as a Justification for Child Discipline) Amendment Bill – Justice and Electoral Committee
Introduction This submission is on behalf of many of the members within the Humanist Society of New Zealand who support the Crimes (Abolition of Force as a Justification for Child Discipline) Amendment Bill. These members of the Humanist Society would like to make an oral presentation to the Committee. The Humanist Society of New Zealand…
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Embryonic Stem Cell Research – Ministry of Health
Presented to the Ministry of Health “The Humanist Society of New Zealand (Inc.) represents the interests of non-theistic people in New Zealand. We seek to build a more humane society based on human and other natural values. New Zealand census figures indicate that 25% of the population have no religious beliefs and that 40% of…
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Draft National Statement on Religious Diversity – Race Relations Commissioner
Introduction This submission is from the Humanist Society of New Zealand. The Humanist Society of New Zealand (Inc.) represents the interests of non-theistic people in New Zealand. We seek to build a more humane society based on human and other natural values. New Zealand census figures indicate that a third of the population has no…
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Human Tissue Bill – Health Committee
Introduction This submission is from the Humanist Society of New Zealand. The Humanist Society of New Zealand (Inc.) represents the interests of non-theistic people in New Zealand. We seek to build a more humane society based on human and other natural values. New Zealand census figures indicate that approximately a third of the population has…
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Assisted Reproduction – ACART Government Health Committee
The Humanist Society of New Zealand (Inc.) represents the interests of non-theistic people in New Zealand. We seek to build a more humane society based on human and other natural values. New Zealand census figures indicate that approximately a third of our population has no religious belief. The Humanist Society is mostly in agreement with…
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Teaching Religious Diversity in Schools – Minister of Education
The Humanist Society of New Zealand represents the interests of non-theistic people in New Zealand. We seek to build a more humane society based on human and other natural values. New Zealand census figures show that approximately a third of the population has no religious belief. The Humanist Society of New Zealand is concerned about…
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Submission on Updating the Education Act 1989
Our Society adheres to the fundamentals of modern Humanism as expressed in the Amsterdam Declaration of 2002, in which Article 4 states: Humanism insists that personal liberty must be combined with social responsibility. Humanism ventures to build a world on the idea of the free person responsible to society, and recognises our dependence on and…
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Abortion and Euthanasia
The Humanist Society of New Zealand is currently finalizing a manifesto ahead of the upcoming political elections in September. There are many things worth lobbying for, but two that are being focused on are changing the laws around Abortion and Euthanasia. The first thing the word Abortion brings to my mind is the big red “Abort –…
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Submission on the End of Life Choices Bill
Today we made a submission in support of the End of Life Choices Bill. You can read our submission below. Justice Committee SecretariatCommittee SecretariatJustice CommitteeParliament BuildingsWellington 29 January 2018 To the Justice Committee, Submission on the End of Life Choices BillThis submission is from the Humanist Society of New Zealand (Inc.) We wish to appear…
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Submission to MoE on Religious Instruction
Overview In general terms, the document does a good job of trying to bring potential issues with offering religious instruction to the attention of schools. These issues are both legal and ethical, and it is important that the focus of this document is kept on the rights and wellbeing of the children. We would like…