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Here are some of the current political campaigns and issues of concern for women...

[Campaign for Fair Pay for NZ Nurses]

[Campaign to support Aung San Suu Kyi]

[Report by the United Nations into the progress of Women acheiving equality]

[Auckland DPB Action Group- download their leaflet (pdf format)]

[Press statement against the proposed war against Iraq from Auckland Women's Centre AGM]

[Letter to Government   on resolution passed by Auckland Women's Centre AGM against NZ support on the proposed war against Iraq]

[International  Womens Day Committee]

[Parliament gone into Urgency on Terrorism Bill]

[Please send a letter of protest about the woman being sentenced to death by stoning]

[Submissions needed: Ministry of Women's Affairs discussion Paper on Pay Equity]

[Auckland Women's Centre letter to MPS   on Terrorism Suppression Bill and responses from PM and Min of Foreign Affairs]

[Auckland Women's Centre Submission on Terrorism Suppression Bill]

[Auckland Women's Centre letter to PM on proposed changes to benefit entitlement for lesbian couples]

[Pay Equity: 12 Weeks Scheme Announced]

[War Against Terror- AWC Press Release]

[Time Use Survey]

[The Women's Health Strategy Discussion Document]

[Women's Studies Programmes Cut]

[Women's Equity Network]

[The Gisborne Cervical Screening Inquiry-report is out]

[Hidden Hunger Report] 

[Universal Basic Income for Women]

Updating bills currently  being considered by Parliament

International   Womens Day Committee is meeting regularly to organise for March 8 2003 activities. Contact janetbogle@hotmail.com; and/or to go to http://groups.yahoo .com Then type in   "m8womensday"  in the "Join a group" space.

Women4Peace is a new Auckland Group formed as a consequence of USA'S military response to the atrocities of Sept 11- download their poster

Time Use Survey

This report showed that, as we all already knew, that women continue to do much more work than men, mostly of the unpaid  variety. You can order or  download   a copy of the report from Statistics New Zealand.

The Women's Health Strategy Discussion Document (from MWA web site)

A draft of the Women's Health Strategy is available for public consultation. The Ministry is keen to receive feedback, particulary on the draft objectives, from women and women's organisations to ensure that the Strategy reflects the needs of New Zealand women.

Please contact Dairne Grant, c/- Ministry of Women's Affairs, PO Box 10-049, Wellington, or phone (04) 460 5852, or email grant@mwa.govt.nz , with your feedback.

 

Women's Studies Programme at Massey cut off at the knees

The final results of the Humanities and Social Sciences repositioning at Massey University are as follows: Two positions were disestablished while Jenny Coleman and Lynne Alice have been confirmed in the only two  remaining Women's Studies positions (which have yet to be specified).The courses and supervision available from 2001 from Massey staff remain unconfirmed at this time. The repositioning constraints on the programme remain in relation to the BA major and all on campus taught undergraduate level papers will be disestablished from this year; only core postgrad. papers will be taught as needed, and the programme reviewed within 2 years.

 

Women's Equity Network in New Zealand (WENinNZ)

This is a new email list set up by Lynne Dempsey (spokesperson for Divorce Equity) as a discussion forum for women who want to share ideas and information about women and justice issues. Right now the focus of the list is developing some strategies to get the Property (Relationships) bill through the Select Committee intact (or improved). Further down the track  it is envisioned that WENinNZ will be a space to organise effective lobbying, political action  and media  coverage to promote the interests of  women. Other concerns include the proposed reviews of the Guardianship Act and the Family Court; custody and access ideology.  Is the Domestic Violence Act working for women?

Click to subscribe to WENinNZ

 

*The Gisborne Cervical Screening Inquiry

The report of the Ministerial Inquiry into the under-reporting of cervical smear abnormalities in the Gisborne region.   The full rreport can be viewed at the inquiry's  own web-site. For all the background to the inquiry, the Women's  Health Action Web-site has an archive of published articles, information and analysis of the events and issues leading up to the inquiry.

*Hidden Hunger: Food and Low Income in New Zealand. Hidden Hunger is a report commissioned by  The New Zealand Network Against Poverty to highlight the issue of food poverty in Aotearoa/ NZ.  The report looks at the commons myths  people have about food poverty and outlines the facts about food and poverty in NZ. This report is an excellent resource and highlights the fact that too many people in NZ are going short of food especially women and children. The report is available on-line at the Crown Public Health Ltd web-site.