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Emergency Housing Standards Urgent
MEDIA RELEASE: December 21, 2020 Community Law Centres O Aotearoa (CLCA) is calling on Government agencies to ensure emergency housing providers meet basic standards as competing pressures mount over the Summer holidays. “Handing over millions of dollars of taxpayer funding to private…
COVID-19 FUNDING SUPPORT WELCOMED
MEDIA RELEASE: August 5, 2020, Community Law Centres welcome the additional Government funding announced to help address increased demand for free legal services due to COVID-19. Minister of Justice Andrew Little today announced an additional $3.47m over three years for Community Law Centres…
Community Law launches te reo Māori resource
Te reo Māori speakers can now read about the legal status of te reo Māori in te reo Māori thanks to a new bilingual chapter in the Community Law Manual. As part of Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori, Community Law is…
CLCA Board calls for nominations for an Independent Board Member
Robyn Rauna has advised she has taken a position as Chief Executive of Tamanuhiri Tutu Poroporo Trust and consequently needs to relinquish her Independent Governance role on the CLCA Board. We thank her for the significant contribution she has made to Community…
New Foreign Nationals Package Inadequate Press Release
A new package to help foreign nationals stuck in New Zealand due to Covid-19 is inadequate and needs to be supplemented with the emergency benefit, say Community Law Centres O Aotearoa (CLCA) and the Human Rights Commission (HRC). The assistance programme began…
Chatbot to help workers released
MEDIA RELEASE March 4, 2020 Chatbot to help workers released Community Law Centres o Aotearoa in partnership with Citizen AI has this week released a new chatbot for people having problems at work. Workbot provides information about your rights and responsibilities as…
Parliament Petitioned to Take Australian Human Rights Abuses to UN
PRESS RELEASE The New Zealand Parliament will be petitioned to take a strong position on Australia’s severe immigration detention, deportation and citizenship impediments for New Zealanders when Australia appears before the United Nations in 2020. Community Law and the Human Rights Commission…
Kathryn Beck, CLCA Board Member, is elected New Zealand Law Society President
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