We are asking that the House of Representatives urgently stop the National Library from sending overseas published books from its collection to the Philippines, require it to publicly consult about the best way of preserving, managing and offering these books to the public. We believe this has been decided without enough consideration, and that these books are of universal interest and are a historical part of the National Library of New Zealand. Most of the Overseas Published Books Collection, featuring over 600,000 books from many countries, will soon leave our country, to go to the Philippines where they may be digitized by Internet Archive. The Library has already disposed of many of these overseas published books and we believe none will ever come back again.

Stopping and preventing forced marriage is a community responsibility. We want members of the community, civil society organisations, marriage celebrants, educational institutions, government agencies and religious organisations and leaders to pledge a commitment to ending forced and under-age marriage in communities living in Aotearoa. If someone is at risk or in a forced marriage, take action and refuse to be a by-stander. You can support them to get help so they can acess safety by contacting relevant agencies and organisations like Shakti (0800 SHAKTI). If you are marriage celebrant, make sure to screen the marriage for free and informed consent before conducting a ceremony. By signing this pledge you or your organisation commits to supporting the end of forced marriage in New Zealand.

As the world is beginning to realise that our current lifestyle isn’t quite the best for our own health and for our environment, microfiber pollution has become an untalked about issue currently happening on our planet, where more than 5.35 trillion microfiber particles shedded from synthetic clothing is in our oceans. How do they get there? Our washing machines! Microfibers being shed from synthetic garments are able to make their way from washing machines, travel through drains and end up in waterways. By signing this pledge, we would like people to support action on eradicating microfibers from New Zealand to protect our rivers, oceans and environment.

We, Kyle MacDonald - Psychotherapist and Mike King - Suicide Prevention Ambassador, ask Facebook to urgently review its Community Standards and their implementation, to no longer allow the posting of videos or links to videos, of people completing suicide. Recent events have shown that Facebook are unwilling to block such videos or links and we are concerned that the viewing of such videos, apart from being horrifying and disturbing, can increase the likelihood of others taking their own lives.

We call upon the Health Select Committee to replace section 13C to delete the complicated process for designating a safe area, and instead add language to create safe areas around all places where abortions are provided from assent.

Dear Samoan Government, We are asking you to deeply consider reforming section 67, 68 and 71 of the Crimes Act 2013. Currently, the law means Samoan men cannot engage in homosexual activity without receiving a prison sentence. We want you to reform these laws, to allow for homosexual relations and relationships, but to also protect landlords or household caregivers from being prosecuted for holding a place of residence for gay people. The current law states that homosexual relations could result in a max. 7 year prison sentence and holders of residence could face a max. 5 year prison sentence. Your stance in terms of justice of these laws is not enough; saying that you will be less tough in terms of prosecution is deficient. We are asking for these laws to be abolished, so that there is no potential leg room for prosecution.

We would like the Hamilton City Council to declare a climate emergency so that urgency is taken when making climate action. Our Climate is in a state of emergency because we have failed to act upon the warnings that science has given us for over 40 years and the council needs to recognise this. Declaring a Climate Emergency would send a message to society that now is the time to act and therefore ensure current and future generations have a place to live in the years to come. The current plan put in place by the government isn't good enough. 2050 is too late. 2025 may even be too late unless we start taking action right now.

We want Greater Wellington Regional Council to agree to a moratorium on any current consents and to not allow any water-bottling from the Waiwhetu aquifer.

Create a safe crossing on Cobham Drive, Evans Bay

Please sign our petition to join us in calling on our sanctioned trusts and outrigger canoe clubs to enter into a tri-polynesian waka ama sanction agreement (aotearoa new zealand, maoli hawaii and tahiti french polynesian) including multi-hull racing as a popular competitive sport, to work with polynesian expert navigators to implement a strategic policy with timeline as a registered and licensed event for future representatives to enter Olympic games. “The Olympic rings symbol expresses the activity of the Olympic Movement and represents the union of the five continents and the meeting of athletes from throughout the world at the Olympic Games.” (Olympic Charter, Rule 8). The International Olympic Committee (IOC) may admit an activity into the Olympic program in one of three different ways: as a sport; as a discipline, which is a branch of a sport; or as an event, which is a competition within a discipline. For instance, triathlon was admitted as a sport, debuting at the 2000 Games in Sydney. Athletes must first comply with the Olympic Charter and follow the rules of the International Federation (IF) governing their sport. The IFs establish the rules and organize qualifying events, while the National Olympic Committee (NOC) of the athlete’s country supports the athlete and is responsible for entering them for the Games. (1) Tokyo Olympics July 23 to August 8 in 2021 (although the games are now held in 2021, for marketing and branding reasons, it is still referred to as 'Tokyo 2020') (2) Paralympic Games August 24 to September 5, 2021. (3) Beijing 2022 04 Feb - 20 Feb 2022 (Peoples Republic of China) Olympic Charter: Chapter 5, Rules 40-44 https://stillmed.olympic.org/media/Document%20Library/OlympicOrg/General/EN-Olympic-Charter.pdf#_ga=1.171251561.879522158.1448460117 National Olympic Committees https://www.olympic.org/national-olympic-committees