SPCS

SOCIETY FOR PROMOTION OF COMMUNITY STANDARDS INC.

Marriage Shouldn’t Be Redefined – says Family First NZ

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In a Media Release dated 11 May 2012, Bob McCoskrie – Director of Family First NZ, a registered charity with the Charities Commission, stated:

Marriages are a matter of significant public concern, as the record of almost every culture shows. If it weren’t for the fact that sexual intercourse between a man and a woman leads to children and brings with it a further obligation to care for those children, the notion of marriage would probably never have existed, and the state would not have been interested in it. [Read more…]

Human Rights Action Trust Aotearoa/New Zealand – charity offering “legal advocacy service”

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The Human Rights Action Trust Aotearoa/New Zealand is a Charitable Trust that was registered as a charity (Reg. No. CC37775) with the Charities Commission currently on 30 June 2008. In its Trust Deed, available on the Commission’s website (www.charities.govt.nz), the Trust states its key Principles to include:

2.1 Pursuing social justice in Aotearoa/New Zealand through the promotion of, and respect for, the human rights of all persons, including the promotion of New Zealand’s obligations under international human rights law [e.g. The United Nations Universal Declaration of Humans Rights – to which the New Zealand government is a signatory].

2.2 Promoting an understanding of the inalienability, interdependence and universal application of all human rights laws.

2.4 Promoting the importance of human rights in the development and implementation of policy.

All three laudable principles designed to advance and promote community standards, clearly undergird an intended programme of political advocacy spelt out in the Trust’s statement of purposes, that include:

3.2   Provide policy advice to Government agencies, Parliamentary committees and such other legislative or Executive organs on the content of draft Bills proposed from a human rights perspective.

3.3   Provide a high quality, legal advice and advocacy service to bring litigation on matters relating to human rights or other issues of significant public interest.

It appears that the Charities Act 2005, as interpreted by the Charities Commission, permits registered charities to have such laudable principles and purposes as outlined above, involving a degree of “political advocacy” in the form of “advice” advanced to Parliamentary Committees by charity members or their representatives. [Read more…]

Human Rights Advocacy – a registered charity exposing violations of human rights

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Human Rights Advocacy is a Charitable Trust registered as a charity with the Charities Commission. It was registered on 1 June 2011 (Reg. No. CC46647) to “Encourage action to end systematic, institutional human rights violations [and] establish a more effective human rights monitoring and protection system” (see: www.hradv.org). Its Trust Deed defines its purposes as including:

s. 3.1.1     To expose violations of human rights to the public and United Nations.

s.3.1.3      To lobby for and support international human rights resolutions.

s. 3.1.4      To promote and publish human rights materials promoting The Universal Declaration of Human Rights.”

The Charities Commission records the Human Rights Advocacy [“HRA”] website as www.hradv.org and has the HRA Trust Deed available on its website (www.charities.govt.nz)

The HRA’s attractive website homepage features a colour photo of numerous human rights advocates holding up flags outside our Parliament buildings (presumably protesting against alleged human rights violations?). The HRA website seeks to expose the alleged persecution of Falun Gong practitioners by the Chinese and Vietnamese governments and highlights HRA’s lobbying efforts to seek to have human rights legislation upheld by the New Zealand Government. [Read more…]

SAFE (organisation) – registered charity that engages in “animal rights advocacy”

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SAFE (Save Animals from Exploitation Inc.) is a registered charity (Reg. no. CC40428) with the Charities Commission. The Wikipedia entry for the organisation defines it as an “animal advocacy group“, whose “purpose is to oppose practices of perceived unnecessary animal exploitation and experimentation.” SAFE “actively campaigns against current intensive pig and chicken farming practices, is opposed to duck shooting, live sheep exports, genetically engineering animals and vivisection on beagles [a much-loved dog breed] and other animals [some less loved!].” SAFE also devotes considerable efforts to get the law changed with respect to improving animal welfare (political advocacy). [Read more…]

‘Sin Precinct’ warning over Chows’ brothel plan

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A 15-STOREY brothel complex in the heart of downtown Auckland would lead to an explosion of sexually transmitted diseases, child sex-slavery, moral bankruptcy, drug warfare and a curse on everyone in New Zealand, according to some of the submissions to Auckland Council on the proposal.

Of the 200 submissions on a proposed development called the Penthouse Club, across the road from SkyCity, almost every one was against the project. There was only one submission which even conditionally supported it.

The majority were concerned with issues of morality, criminality and health… [Read more…]