by admin | Mar 19, 2023 | Statement
On 19 March 2023 we wrote to Hon. Michael Wood, Minister of Immigration, to voice our concerns about the expected arrival of British anti-trans campaigner Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull, also known as Posie Parker, to Aotearoa. Over the weekend images showing far-right...
by Gaylene Middleton | Oct 25, 2019 | Statement
Dear Dr. Abdul Malik, I am writing urgently to you on behalf of the Humanist Society of New Zealand upon receiving the very disturbing news of the abduction in Peshawar of Professor Mohammad Ismail. Professor Ismail was abducted from the gates of Peshawar High Court,...
by admin | Aug 5, 2018 | News, Statement
This weekend over 130 humanists from dozens of countries gathered in Auckland for a series of events hosted by the Humanist Society of New Zealand and the New Zealand Association of Rationalists and Humanists. The events focussed on ending persecution against...
by admin | Jan 11, 2015 | Statement
The Humanist Society of New Zealand is appalled and deeply concerned by the recent attack on the offices of the magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris, France, on Wednesday 7 January that resulted in the deaths of twelve people and the wounding of eleven others, four of them...