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…]