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Happy Holidays 2025
Happy Holidays to you all from the team at Amnesty International
22 December, 2025
Our Domestic Work
If I Was Prime Minister
JustSpeak and Amnesty International Aotearoa New Zealand have launched a report that places the voices of rangatahi at the centre of efforts to improve how we approach justice issues.
19 December, 2025
Our Domestic Work
People power: ASB divests from Motorola over Israeli apartheid
ASB advised that it has divested its Kiwisaver funds from Motorola Solutions, Inc. This is a major win for all New Zealanders who have campaigned tirelessly to end Israel’s systematic oppression and atrocities against Palestinian people.
19 December, 2025
Conflict
Sustainable peace requires international justice for all victims of all crimes in Israel and the OPT
Two months since the ceasefire was announced and all living Israeli hostages were released, Israeli authorities are still committing genocide against Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip with total impunity by continuing to deliberately inflict conditions of life calculated to bring about their physical destruction, without signalling any change in their intent.
11 December, 2025
Our Domestic Work
Welcoming the Interim Report from the Youth Online Harm Inquiry
Amnesty International Aotearoa New Zealand and Tāhono Trust welcome the Interim Report from the Education and Workforce Select Committee, from their Inquiry into youth online harm.
11 December, 2025
Human rights
Fijian Indian youth advocate wins Amnesty International award
22-year-old Fijian Indian curator and community organiser Dylan Chand was announced today as the winner of Amnesty International Aotearoa New Zealand’s Gary Ware Legacy Award.
10 December, 2025
Human rights
On Human Rights Day, we say "Thank You"
Every year on 10 December, we celebrate the day in 1948 that the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. This couldn’t happen without the support of genuinely kind and caring individuals like you. Without your humanity, your aroha and your strength, none of Amnesty’s mahi over the past 6 decades would have been possible.
09 December, 2025
Human rights
Auckland Sky Tower lights up yellow for Human Rights Day
This year on Wednesday 10 December, the Sky Tower will be lit up yellow in honour of Human Rights Day, which commemorates the anniversary of one of the world’s most groundbreaking global pledges.
07 December, 2025
Our Domestic Work
Amnesty International is leaving ASB
Amnesty International Aotearoa New Zealand is moving its banking from ASB, in light of the bank’s ongoing investments in Motorola Solutions, Inc. due to its complicity in illegal Israeli settlements.
02 December, 2025
Climate breakdown
A Duty of Care and a Test of Our Humanity: Climate Displacement in the Pacific
In early October 2025, Jacqui Dillon, our Executive Director, had the privilege of travelling to Tuvalu to deliver Amnesty’s first climate report from the region: ’Navigating Injustice: Climate Displacement in the Pacific’.
20 November, 2025
Our Domestic Work
Amnesty International agrees with Minister Stanford
Amnesty International Aotearoa New Zealand agrees with Minister Erica Stanford's statement that we have to make social media companies change their behaviours.
19 November, 2025
Human rights
A whirlwind trip for Dr Agnès Callamard
During her visit to Aotearoa, Amnesty International’s Secretary General met Ministers, Members of Parliament, allies, activists, members, and supporters, amplifying human rights across the motu. Dr Callamard reminded us that, as authoritarian practices spread, we must keep asking: “Is it human? Is it right?”
29 October, 2025
Human rights
Heads up, we're doing something new and different
Watch: Amnesty International's Kaiwhakahaere Matua, Jacqui Dillon, shares the exciting launch of our new brand campaign. From 13 October, you'll see us on billboards and radio, supported online and through social media. Our message highlights how these authoritarian practices deny people their rights, their dignity, and in some cases their homes and lives. And we pose a powerful question… Is it human? Is it right?
11 October, 2025
Human rights
Discriminatory migration system fails Pacific People facing climate change and disasters
Authorities in Aotearoa New Zealand are failing people most at risk of climate-related harm in the Pacific islands, subjecting them to discriminatory migration policies that tear families apart and disregard children’s rights, Amnesty International said in a new report published today.
08 October, 2025
Human rights
Statement: Global Sumud Flotilla
Media statement on the interception of the Global Sumud Flotilla by Israeli forces
02 October, 2025