Election 2017 - Party Policies - Communities - LGBTQ+ Issues
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LGBTQ+ Issues
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- Amend discriminatory laws and policies to ensure the government complies fully with the Human Rights Act 1993.
- Support the extension of all legal partnership arrangements and rights to same-sex couples.
- Establish equal criteria for both rainbow and heterosexual couples in their assessment for suitability and eligibility for parenting.
- Support the creation of safe and supportive educational environments, such as through the inclusion of sexual orientation and gender identity in teacher training and development, the teaching of human rights in schools, and the creation of partnerships with schools and rainbow youth organisations to reduce the unacceptably high level of suicide and drug abuse.
- Ensure that there is an extra $5 million annually for LGBTIA+ school support services so that every student is safer at school.
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- Ensure intensive intervention and adequate levels of support for Rainbow youth in the compulsory education system; support schools to develop comprehensive policies and actions to deal with bullying on the grounds of actual or perceived sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression and intersex status.
- Ensure the needs and specific circumstances of young Rainbow people are actively addressed in our strategies to reduce homelessness.
- Help achieve the goal of ending HIV in New Zealand by 2025 by: increasing access to sexual health services, testing, and early treatment; funding access to pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP); and supporting education, research, and community groups which help achieve this goal.
- Review laws and policies that interfere with the right to be free from discrimination under section 19 of the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990 and include gender identity as a prohibited ground of discrimination under the Human Rights Act 1993.
- Modernise the law relating to the care of children to ensure that the widest possible pool of suitable adults, including same-sex couples, is available to provide care (being foster care, short-term guardianship and other forms of custody) to children in need.
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- Amend section 21 of the Human Rights Act 1993 to explicitly include gender identity, gender expression and sex characteristics as specific prohibited groups for grounds of discrimination and ensure that this is put into practice.
- Ensure health providers have appropriate plans, practice standards and funding to responsiveness to the health needs of rainbow communities.
- Review regulations surrounding blood donations to ensure that these are based on evidence.
- Ensure school and youth counselors have training and information regarding LGBTQIA+ issues.
- Monitor, review and update the Department of Correction’s Transgender Prisoner policy to reflect international best practice about placement, care and management of trans prisoners to ensure their right to safety, and access to health services and rehabilitation on an equal basis as others.
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