Submissions and advocacy

As a collective, we make submissions and statements about policies and laws that affect rainbow wellbeing.

Statements

Submission guide: make a submission to support trans, non-binary and intersex human rights (September 2024)

Statement on Mental Health and Addiction Community Sector Innovation Fund (28 August 2024)

Rainbow communities condemn the disestablishment of Te Aka Whai Ora (28 February 2024)

Key election issues for the 2023 General Election: healthcare, housing, education and rights.

Collective submissions

• Ia Tangata issues paper - September 2024

• Residential Tenancies Amendment Bill - July 2024

• Feedback on recommendations made to New Zealand’s 4th Universal Periodic Review of Human Rights - June 2024

• Fast Track Approvals Bill - April 2024

• Pae Ora (Healthy Futures) (Improving Mental Health Outcomes) Amendment Bill - April 2024

• Electoral (Lowering Voting Age for Local Elections and Polls) Legislation Bill - October 2023

• Human Rights (Incitement on Ground of Religious Belief) Amendment Bill - February 2023

• Review of the Search and Surveillance Act 2012 - June 2022

• Conversion Practices Prohibition Legislation Bill - September 2021

• Births, Deaths, Marriages, and Relationships Registration Bill - September 2021

Note: not all of these submissions were made on behalf of the whole Collective. Each document lists the organisations that signed on to the submission.