OUR ESSENTIAL RIGHTS ARE BEING ERASED

Widespread rise of authoritarian practices threaten our human rights. Stand with us and resist these attacks together.

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When basic civil rights are being erased,

Increasingly we’re witnessing attacks against our civic freedoms. A systematic undermining of the essence of humanity whereby people experience fairness, equity, dignity and justice.

This widespread rise of authoritarian practices threatens our human rights. The antidote is the activation of community voice. The power of community that has sat at the heart of so many human rights movements.

Be the reason it never happens.

Our shared humanity is the catalyst for change. To protect our collective right to a thriving, healthy society, Amnesty International Aotearoa New Zealand is mobilising resistance.

Someone in New Zealand is losing a right today. Will you help us fight for it?

Right now in Aotearoa, rights are being quietly rolled back. Is it human? Is it right? Your donation makes this work possible.

Jeff

Right to protest narrowed.

Aiden

Move on orders affecting homeless.

Aria

Trans New Zealanders legal identity threatened.

Hana

Te Tiriti not honoured.

Sally

Online harm legislation is stalled.

Recent updates

A retired woman tries to hug a police officer during a weekly protest called by pensioners against the economic measures of Argentina's President Javier Milei and demanding an increase in their pensions in front of the National Congress in Buenos Aires on 30 July 2025.

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Annual Report 2025/26

The 2026 edition of Amnesty International’s annual report, The State of the World’s Human Rights, assesses national, regional and global developments across a wide range of human rights themes.

16 March, 2026

Agnes Callamard at a pōwhiri in Tāmakai Makaurau Auckland

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Agnès Callamard's call for Aotearoa to resist

A message from Amnesty International's Secretary General

16 March, 2026

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

Amnesty International Aotearoa New Zealand is part of a 10 million-strong global movement of people who stand for universal access to fairness, justice, dignity and inclusion – our essential civil rights. Standing together, our shared humanity holds the power to create change.