ACTivate

After years of false starts, Labour and National have teamed up to co-sponsor a bill requiring companies to investigate their supply chains for risks of forced labour. Listen to Rebekah Armstrong, Head of Advocacy and Justice at World Vision New Zealand explain why this political cooperation is momentous, how the new law will work, and the difference it will make to businesses, consumers and victims/survivors. Also, Take Action re Iran protests. Sign a petition calling on the international community to urgently act to stop further protest bloodshed in Iran: https://www.amnesty.org/en/petition/end-protest-massacres-in-iran/

Listen to Campaigns Manager, David Vega talk about Amnesty Aotearoa's new report titled: “Navigating injustice: Climate displacement from the Pacific Islands of Tuvalu and Kiribati to Aotearoa New Zealand".   The report shows how existing migration pathways are not an answer to the humanitarian needs of people seeking safety from the impacts of climate change and disasters. They are labour-focussed – making them arbitrary and discriminatory. Amnesty Aoteroa is calling on the NZ Government to establish a rights-based humanitarian visa to allow Pacific People most impacted by climate change to move to or continue living in NZ. Because, we're all in this together.

ACTivate is a monthly show brought to you by the Christchurch branch of Amnesty International Aotearoa/New Zealand, an organisation dedicated to campaigning for human rights.

It's White Ribbon Day this month and election year is looming, so what better way to stand up against violence towards women by listening to this engaging conversation on harmful online misogyny. Then pick up a pen and write to your local MP on reforming the law.

You'll hear Dr Mudgway explain that violent gender-based online abuse is significantly harming female politicians, changing the way they campaign, what hot button topics they avoid speaking about in public and the length of time they stay in the job. New Zealand needs a tougher response. Dr Mudgway recommends an online safety regulator with enforcement powers, regulating tech companies and codes of conduct around elections.

Listen to part 2 of Catherine's interview with wellbeing economist Paul Dalziel who explains that the RSB will make it more difficult to pass legislation that seeks a proportionate reduction of individual property rights for a major contribution to the public good, for example some climate change policies.

Paul argues the bill will increase red tape, slow down law making and won't make New Zealand more prosperous. His view is that there is nothing in the bill that is visionary about raising the wellbeing of future generations.

Paul's takeaway message is that we should look to the Welsh, "Well-being of Future Generations (Wales) Act 2015" as an alternative way to design regulatory standards, "the way to frame it should be about the wellbeing of future generations based on widespread consultation and input from experts to...create consensus rather than adopting a narrow libertarian property rights framework that... will constrain the future path of Parliament twisted into a certain direction."