The action alerts, updates and articles below are listed in date order; those listed by subject are on the topic index. Earlier alerts, updates and articles in date order are available via the Archived Action Alerts index.

• Airstrikes on Gaza: information, protests, and contact details, Peace Movement Aotearoa, December 2008
• End of year message, Peace Movement Aotearoa, December 2008
• UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples' petition to parliament - the first presentation of signatures to parliament was on 10 December 2008. Additional signatures may be sent up until 1 March 2009. Please note, signatures must be submitted on the printed form or they will not be accepted by the Office of the Clerk. If you have any difficulty opening or printing this petition, please contact us and we will post copies to you.
• Campaign Against the Taser to monitor taser use after rollout, Campaign Against the Taser, 12 December 2008
• Act now to support the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Peace Movement Aotearoa, updated 11 December 2008
• UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples' petition: presentation to parliament on Human Rights Day, Peace Movement Aotearoa, 10 December 2008 - photos and speech notes
• 'An introduction to Maori and the United Nations', Aotearoa Indigenous Rights Trust DVD launch, in Wellington on 21 November 2008 - the formatted copy of the launch invitation is available here, and press releases are available in te reo Maori and English.
• Universal Periodic Review: submissions on the NZ government's human rights record - deadlines are: Thursday, 23 October for joint NGO submissions; Monday, 10 November for single NGO submissions
• Seminar: Eliminating nuclear weapons + NZ's role in disarmament, National Consultative Committee on Disarmament, 17 and 18 October 2008 in Wellington
• Act now to support the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Peace Movement Aotearoa, 13 September 2008 - see updated edition, December 2008, above
• Applications for Local Peace Grants, and the 2009 Loxley Award, Quaker Peace & Service Aotearoa/New Zealand - deadline is 31 October 2008
• Support Waihopai Ploughshares on 17-18 September, Peace Movement Aotearoa and Waihopai Ploughshares, 10 September 2008
• Taser decision unprincipled and dangerous, Campaign Against the Taser, 29 August 2008
• Waihopai Ploughares: Fundraising for Iraq, 20 August 2008
• International Day of the World's Indigenous People, Peace Movement Aotearoa, 8 August 2008
• Cluster bomb vigils + Pacific meeting on 13 August, Peace Movement Aotearoa, 5 August 2008
• Help needed for the 2008 white poppy appeal, Peace Movement Aotearoa on behalf of CND, 30 July 2008
• Tangata Whenua Rights and the Constitution, Statement from Friends' Yearly Meeting (Aotearoa New Zealand), 11-13 July 2008
• New Master of Arts in Conflict Resolution - starts Semester 2, July 2008, at AUT
• Global military expenditure: 2007 figures now available, 11 June 2008
• Farewell for Carmen Smith, 10 June 2008
• Campaign Against the Taser calls for Police to release "sanitised" taser information, and to delay taser deployment decision, 6 June 2008
• 118 Days: Christian Peacemaker Teams Held Hostage in Iraq, published June 2008 - Support for Peacemakers abducted in Baghdad archive
• Vacancy: National Director, Peace Foundation, June 2008
• National speaking tour: Septer Manufandu, West Papua, Wednesday, 28 May to Wednesday, 4 June 2008
• Vietnam War/Tribute 08: Sign-on letter, protest and meeting, 30 May to 1 June 2008
• International Women's Day for Disarmament: protests, petition and information, Peace Movement Aotearoa / Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, May 2008
• ANZAC Ploughshares deflate Waihopai spy dome, 30 April 2008 - statement, support details and links to more information
• Left Behind: How social and income inequalities damage NZ children, Child Poverty Action Group, 28 April 2008
• Alternative ANZAC Day commemorations, and Waihopai prayer vigil, 25 and 27 April 2008
• Act now! NZ Superannuation Fund investments in death and destruction, No WARP! (Network Opposed to Weapons and Related Production), 15 April 2008 - if you have any difficulty opening or printing this action alert, please contact us and we will post copies to you
• Investing in whose future? NZ Super Fund invests in cluster munitions, nuclear weapons and human rights violations, No WARP! (Network Opposed to Weapons and Related Production), April 2008 - if you have any difficulty opening or printing this leaflet, please contact us and we will post copies to you
• Petition 'End government support for military exports', No WARP! (Network Opposed to Weapons and Related Production) - deadline for return of signatures is 30 September 2008. Please note, signatures must be submitted on this form or they will not be accepted by the Office of the Clerk. If you have any difficulty opening or printing this petition, please contact us and we will post copies to you
• 2008 National Peace Workshops, Whanganui, 14 to 16 March - information and registration
• Applications invited for Chair / Director of Peace and Conflict Studies Centre, University of Otago - deadline 10 March 2008
• Cluster munitions: what's on, and what you can do, February 2008
• Investing in whose future? NZ Super Fund investments in cluster munitions and nuclear weapons production, and companies linked to gross human rights violations, No WARP! (Network Opposed to Weapons and Related Production), February 2008 [updated April 2008]
• Depleted uranium petition and fact sheet to the NZ House of Representatives,ongoing - the deadline for return of petition forms will be available on this web page when it is confirmed
• Fly the Flag: competition, letters and donations, Te Ata Tino Toa / Peace Movement Aotearoa, February 2008

2007

• Season's greetings - end of year message, Peace Movement Aotearoa, 21 December 2007
• Act now: taser gun decision due soon, Peace Movement Aotearoa, 20 December 2007
• NZ 'terrorism': human rights violations, Contribution to 'Burn this CD: Responses to October 15', Peace Movement Aotearoa, December 2007
• Solidarity for West Papua: Marking West Papua Independence Day 2007, Peace Movement Aotearoa, November 2007 - updated with photos
• Waging peace, Margaret Bedggood, November 2007
• For freedom: demystifying terror in everyday life, one-day seminar on 10 November 2007 in Wellington
• 'Terror' raids: human rights in Aotearoa hui, 3 and 4 November, at Tapu Te Ranga Marae, Wellington
• NZ "terrorism" in perspective, started 15 October 2007
• Depleted uranium petition and fact sheet - To the NZ House of Representatives: "that the House emulate the Belgian Parliament's decision of 22 March 2007 by prohibiting in New Zealand the manufacture, use, storage, sale, acquisition, supply and transit of inert munitions and armour that contain depleted uranium [DU] or any other industrially manufactured uranium" - first deadline for return of petition forms is 31 January 2008

• 'Peace Past - Peace Future' Symposium, in Auckland on 27 October, Aotearoa New Zealand Peace and Conflict Studies Centre Trust
• Submissions due: Immigration Bill 2007, closing date is Friday, 2 November 2007
• Non violent resistance in Palestine, Part II: Action against the Wall, Christina Gibb, 5 October 2007 - includes photos
• Immigration Bill public meeting, in Auckland on 3 October, Human Rights Foundation, Amnesty International, and the Federation of Islamic Associations of New Zealand
• International Day of Peace and International Day of Prayer for Peace, 21 September 2007 - now updated with photos
• NZ votes against indigenous peoples' rights at the UN as Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples is adopted by overwhelming majority, Peace Movement Aotearoa, 14 September 2007 - includes UN News article and UN DPI summary of NZ government's statement
• September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows Statement, 11 September 2007
• Non violent resistance in Palestine, Part I: Dinner on Tel Rumeida, Mary Rose, 9 September 2007
• NZ Super Fund investment in companies involved in cluster munitions production, No WARP! 29 August 2007
• Pou Korero: a journalists' guide to Maori and current affairs, launched 27 August 2007
• UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination: Concluding Observations on New Zealand, 15 August 2007 (released 17 August 2007)
• On the International Day of the World's Indigenous People, Peace Movement Aotearoa, 9 August 2007 - includes an update on the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, and information on NZ government investments in companies involved in the violation of indigenous peoples' human rights
• 2007 Hiroshima Peace Declaration, Tadatoshi Akiba, Mayor of Hiroshima, 6 August 2007
• Coroner's Report criticises police over shooting of Steven Wallace, various, August 2007
• UN Committee examines NZ government's performance on racial discrimination, 29 July 2007 - with updates from 30 July onwards
• Coroner Says Wallace Report Completed, NewsRoom, 28 July 2007
• Act now: Foreshore and Seabed Repeal Bill, Peace Movement Aotearoa, 21 July 2007 - updated 26 July 2007
• Public forum: Ownership and control of water, Auckland Human Rights Network, on 22 July 2007
• Wallace shooting report due soon, David Fisher, 15 July 2007
• Solidarity with indigenous Australian communities on 14 July 2007
• Angela Davis speaks in Auckland on 25 June, and in Wellington on 26 June 2007
• Act now! UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Peace Movement Aotearoa, 15 June 2007   - html version     - pdf version
• Global military expenditure: 2006 figures now available, 12 June 2007
• Enduring occupation: Palestinians under siege in the West Bank, Amnesty International, June 2007
• Oppose defence ties with Indonesia! in Auckland on 11 May 2007, Indonesia Human Rights Committee
• Resistance: An Indigenous Response to Neoliberalism, launched 1 May 2007
• Repeal Section 59 of the Crimes Act, ongoing
• An alternative ANZAC Day commemoration, Gisborne, 25 April 2007
• Attack on Iran? emergency response, Peace Movement Aotearoa, 28 March 2007
• Alert! NZ to host international security meeting, Peace Movement Aotearoa, 23 March 2007
• Tino Rangatiratanga Hui Recognises Indigenous World Water Day, Aotearoa Educators, 21 March 2007
• 'Pacific genes and life patents: Pacific experiences and analysis of the commodification and ownership of life' - open source book, published 20 March 2007
• Fourth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq events in Aotearoa New Zealand, March 2007

• Women Say NO to War on International Women's Day, 8 March 2007

• Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific Day 2007, Peace Movement Aotearoa / Pacific Concerns Resource Centre, 1 March 2007
• Speaking tour: 'Eyewitness in Palestine' with Christina Gibb, 20 to 26 February in Opotiki, Gisborne, Wellington, Upper Hutt and Masterton

• 'Negligent Neighbour: NZ's complicity in the invasion and occupation of Timor-Leste', by Maire Leadbeater, released 12 February 2007
• On Waitangi Day: fly the Maori Flag / Maori flags over Aotearoa, Te Tino Toa, 1 February 2007

2006

• Kao! to Marina in Whangamata / No! to Marina in Whangamata, online petition.

• Former Iraq hostages to issue statement as alleged captors face death penalty, 5 December 2006
• Solidarity for West Papua on 1 December 2006 in Aotearoa New Zealand, Peace Movement Aotearoa, 30 November 2006 - updated 1 December with a link to photos
• Submissions: Education Curriculum and the Treaty of Waitangi, Peace Movement Aotearoa - deadline is 30 November 2006
• Gaza: Stop the Siege! Stop the War! - information on the international campaign, for people in Aotearoa New Zealand, Peace Movement Aotearoa, November / December 2006
• Updates: UN Declaration on Indigenous Peoples' Rights, November 2006
• Educators challenge attacks on Treaty, National Tangata Tiriti Educators Conference 2006, 29 October 2006
• Photos: Hikoi, 25 October 2006 (in the week of UN Day and Independence Day) – making the links between the Declaration of Independence 1835, Treaty of Waitangi 1840, and the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples 2006 Australian High Commission   |   US Embassy   |   Parliament
• Recipients of the D.I.C.K (Destructive Industry Connected to Killing) NZ Awards 2006 and the 'Guided Missiles and Misguided Men' Awards for Government Politicians, 18 October 2006
• Submissions on the Principles of the Treaty of Waitangi Deletion Bill, deadline is 20 October 2006
• September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows Statement, 11 September 2006
• New petition launched: 'End government support for military exports', No WARP! 1 September 2006

• 2006 D.I.C.K. NZ Awards: call for nominations, No WARP! closing date is 29 September 2006
• Support the locked out Progressive distribution workers
• West Papua: seminar and national speaking tour, August and September 2006
• Initiative on the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Aotearoa Indigenous Rights Trust, 21 August 2006
• Petition supporting the UN General Assembly's approval of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Amnesty International, 9 August 2006
• Media release, Harmeet Sooden, 17 August 2006
• Submissions on Treaty claims deadline - due 18 August 2006
• Another face of Hamas, Christina Gibb, 7 August 2006 - includes photos
• 'Reports from Hebron' resume as Christina Gibb returns to Hebron, August 2006
• Information on Israel and Lebanon, July 2006
• 2005 World military spending data now available with the release of the SIPRI Yearbook 2006 'Armaments, Disarmament and International Security', 14 June 2006

• Taser guns: not needed and not wanted, Peace Movement Aotearoa, June 2006

• At the push of a button: Automated weapons systems on earth and in space - paper delivered at the 'Threats to peace and disarmament - the way forward' National Consultative Committee on Disarmament Conference, May 2006, Wellington
• New web page: Iran - resources and comment, May 2006
• 'Reports from Hebron' resume as Christina Gibb returns to Hebron, 26 April 2006
• Anzac Day Heroes, John Minto, 24 April 2006
• Report: Iraqi Women Under Siege, Codepink Women for Peace and Global Exchange, 20 April 2006
• Kanak struggle for sovereignty over natural resources met with violence by the French state, Pacific Concerns Resource Centre, 20 April 2006
• Support for Malcolm Kendall-Smith, April 2006
• CTU Vice President Maori on UN Special Rapporteur Report, 7 April 2006
• Aotearoa Indigenous Rights Trust welcomes independent United Nations report, Press release, 6 April 2006
• The United Nations on the Foreshore: A Summary of the Report of the Special Rapporteur, Moana Jackson, 5 April 2006   - html version     - pdf version
• 'Mission to New Zealand' - Report of Rodolfo Stavenhagen, the Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms of Indigenous Peoples, dated 13 March 2006, released 4 April 2006
• Statements from Peacemakers abducted in Baghdad, Peace Movement Aotearoa, partially archived on 24 March 2006
• International spokesperson for the Organisasi Papua Merdeka (OPM) Free Papua Movement condemns the violence in West Papua, Dr Otto Ondawame, 18 March 2006
• Third anniversary of the invasion of Iraq: what's happening in Aotearoa New Zealand, Peace Movement Aotearoa and others, March 2006
• Sept 11: the day the world changed? Peace Movement Aotearoa, leaflet about the ongoing 'war on terrorism', updated March 2006
• NZ SAS deployments to Afghanistan breach defence policy on human rights, Peace Movement Aotearoa, leaflet updated March 2006
• Photos: Women Say NO to War on 8 March in Aotearoa New Zealand, Peace Movement Aotearoa, International Women's Day, 8 March 2006
• Updated: Act now! for Indigenous Peoples' Rights, Peace Movement Aotearoa, 8 March 2006     - html version     - pdf version
• Details of Christina Gibb's speaking tour, March 2006
• Violence against children - repeal Section 59 of the Crimes Act: submissions on the Crimes (Abolition of Force as a Justification for Child Discipline) Amendment Bill, deadline 28 February 2006
• Iran: Consequences of a War, Oxford Research Group, February 2006
• Act now! imminent nuclear weapons test, Peace Movement Aotearoa, 23 February 2006
• Iran: the next war, John Pilger, 13 February 2006
• International Women's Day 2006: Women Say NO to War on 8 March in Aotearoa New Zealand, Peace Movement Aotearoa, February 2006
• Act now! for Indigenous Peoples' Rights, Peace Movement Aotearoa, 22 January 2006     - html version     - pdf version
• Public Participation on NZ government position on the Draft Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, online petition
• Support for Harmeet Sooden and fellow Peacemakers abducted in Baghdad, Peace Movement Aotearoa, 30 November 2005
• Solidarity for West Papua on 1 December 2005 in Aotearoa New Zealand, Peace Movement Aotearoa, 30 November 2005
• In memory of Rod Donald, 6 November 2005
• Winners of the 2005 DICK NZ Awards (Destructive Industry Connected to Killing) and the 2005 'Guided Missiles and Misguided Men' Awards for Government Politicians, No WARP! 23 October 2005
• 2005 National Peace Workshops, 22 to 24 October 2005
• Appeal for earthquake assistance in Kashmir, October 2005
• Say NO to the NZ ‘defence’ industry, No WARP! 1 October 2005
• Wallace inquest decision reserved, TVNZ, 16 September 2005
• Reports from Hebron (with photos), Christina Gibb, updated 9 September 2005
• In memory of Rona Bailey, 7 September 2005

• Rakon: NZ company manufactures crystals for smart bombs, 24 August 2005

• 2005 DICK NZ Awards: call for nominations, No WARP! closing date is 20 August 2005

• Pakeha / Tauiwi Support the International Day of the World's Indigenous People, 9 August 2005

• Information on NZ Day Bill submissions, deadline 29 July 2005

• A Dossier of Civilian Casualties in Iraq, Iraq Body Count and Oxford Research Group, 19 July 2005

• Lest we forget: these were 'Blair's bombs, John Pilger, 11 July 2005

• The reality of this barbaric bombing: if we are fighting insurgency in Iraq, what makes us think insurgency won’t come to us? Robert Fisk, 8 July 2005

• Act now! Exide lead pollution, information from EPAG, 10 June 2005
• NZ SAS deployment breaches defence policy on human rights, Peace Movement Aotearoa, 2 June 2005
• In memory of Owen Wilkes, 12 May 2005
• Steven Wallace: five years on, Peace Movement Aotearoa, 30 April 2005
• The world says end the war! Global days of action, 19 and 20 March 2005
• Caterpillar Inc charged with war crimes in lawsuit, Jewish Voice for Peace, 15 March 2005   - Read the charges
• United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) critical of Foreshore and Seabed Act; plus response to the CERD decision, March 2005
• Alert! NZ company involved in suspect military export to Israeli Defence Force, No WARP! 17 February 2005
• Aceh: the tsunami and beyond - public meetings with prominent Acehnese human rights activist, Auckland 24 January, and Wellington 25 January 2005
• Aceh Emergency Urgent Appeal, TAPOL / Peace Movement Aotearoa, 30 December 2004
• An Appeal to the International Community over the devastating Puncak Jaya Operation and Wider Destabilizing Political Developments in West Papua, Elsham News Service, 21 December 2004
• South Asia Tsunami Appeals, December 2004
• Support the Hunger Strike by Indigenous Peoples' Representatives at the United Nations, 29 November to 4 December 2004
• Solidarity for West Papua on 1 December, Peace Movement Aotearoa, 29 November 2004
• Foreshore Bill: what now? Peace Movement Aotearoa, 19 November 2004

• Alert! Foreshore and Seabed Bill this week: updates of where it is at; protest details, links to media releases and reports, Peace Movement Aotearoa, 16 November 2004
• Alert! Foreshore and Seabed Bill next week, Peace Movement Aotearoa, 12 November 2004
• Peace and The New Corporate Liberation Theology, Arundhati Roy, 4 November 2004
• Foreshore and Seabed Bill Select Committee Report Available, Peace Movement Aotearoa, 4 November 2004
• 100,000 civilian deaths in Iraq - new report, 29 October 2004

• Say NO to the NZ ‘defence’ industry, No WARP! 12 October 2004
• West Papua in Crisis John Rumbiak National Speaking Tour, September and October 2004
• Support Hikoi Takutaimoana II - the second foreshore and seabed hikoi, Peace Movement Aotearoa, 4 October 2004
• 11 September 2004 events in Aotearoa / New Zealand, September 2004
• Act now! Foreshore and Seabed Bill Submissions, Peace Movement Aotearoa, June 2004
• Open Letter on foreshore and seabed, Peace Movement Aotearoa, 5 May 2004
• Steven Wallace: four years on, Peace Movement Aotearoa, 30 April 2004
• 'New' policy: unfair, unjust and unnecessary, Peace Movement Aotearoa, 7 April 2004
• Support the Foreshore and Seabed Hikoi! March 2004
• Alert! NZ military escalation in Afghanistan, Peace Movement Aotearoa, 9 March 2004
• Government foreshore and seabed policy breaches basic human rights, Peace Movement Aotearoa, 23 December 2003
• Act now for West Papua! Peace Movement Aotearoa, 1 December 2003
• National speaking tour by William Nessen - journalist eyewitness to Indonesian military offensive in Aceh, 25 November to 2 December 2003
• Profiting from bloodshed and war - the NZ ‘defence' industry, NO WARP!, 14 November 2003
• 'Continuing Collateral Damage: The Health and Environmental Costs of War on Iraq 2003', MEDACT, 12 November 2003
• No raupatu in our time! Peace Movement Aotearoa, 28 October 2003
• 'Power Play: the hidden costs of deregulating and privatising power' - Sharon Beder speaks in Auckland and Wellington, 8 and 10 October 2003
• Act now! Foreshore and Seabed Submissions, Peace Movement Aotearoa, 29 September 2003
• Foreshore and Seabed Petition, TU MAI - on-line and printable petition
• Submissions on 'Foreshore and seabed: protecting public access and customary rights', 18 August 2003
• West Papua firmly on Pacific Islands Forum agenda, West Papuan People's Representative Office, 17 August 2003
• Some Core Values for Resolving the Foreshore and Seabed Issue, Te Hau Tikanga, the Maori Law Commission, 16 August 2003
• Discussion framework on customary rights to the foreshore and seabed, Te Ope Mana a Tai, 16 August 2003
• Papua Human Rights Activists Seek Forum Probe, RNZI, 14 August 2003
• West Papua: the forgotten Pacific nation, West Papuan People's Representative Office, 14 August 2003
• Don’t leave West Papua off Forum agenda, Keith Locke, 14 August 2003
• West Papua: A struggle for survival, Pacific Island Forum Press Briefing on Thursday, West Papuan People's Representative Office, 13 August 2003
• US backs Australian ties with Kopassus, Radio Australia, 13 August 2003
• Act now for West Papua - includes the Statement from the Fourth International Solidarity Meeting for West Papua (Southern Hemisphere Component), Peace Movement Aotearoa / Fourth International Solidarity meeting, 12 August 2003
• Australian Senate Backs Strongest-Ever West Papua Motion in Wake of Kopassus Revelations, Senator Bob Brown, 12 August 2003
• Press Release: Foreshore and Seabed - Draft Principles, Te Tau Ihu Iwi, 11 August 2003
• Communique from the Workshop on the draft Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, 9 August 2003
• Act now for Ahmed Zaoui, Anglican Social Justice Commission / Peace Movement Aotearoa, 7 August 2003.
• Single mother's trek inspires Israeli protesters, Conal Urquhart, 3 August 2003
• Prisoners protest at Israeli 'security' - Breaches in peace commitments spur Palestinian hunger strikes, Chris McGreal, 2 August 2003
• Third of foreshore off-limits, Ruth Berry, 2 August 2003
• Prison project slip-ups anger MP, Northern Advocate (Whangarei), 1 August 2003
• Israeli law will split families say critics, Chris McGreal, 1 August 2003