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Annual Hui & Skillshare 2021 Annual Hui & Skillshare 2021 – Towards a Bold Future The Piano: Centre for Music and the Arts, 156 Armagh Street, Christchurch Central City, Christchurch 8011 Sessions with an * will be livestreamed Friday 30 May 2021 18:30 - Pub social drinks at Dux Central, 144 Lichfield Street, Central Christchurch ANNUAL HUI Saturday 29 May 2021, 9am – 4pm 8.30am Registration opens 9:00am Mihi Whakatau Jonathon Hagger 9.05am Opening words & candle lighting Heather Hayden 9:15am Introductions Meg de Ronde 9:30am Campaign speed dating – The Year that Was Campaigns Team 10.30am Morning tea 11.00* 60 Years of Human Rights - panel session (livestreamed) Tim Barnett, Carwyn Jones, and Meg de Ronde 12.00pm Lunch 1.00pm* Amnesty International NZ AGM (Official Business) (livestreamed) Chairperson Including: - Election of meeting officers and approval of standing orders - Board Team member elections and resolutions - Election of two Board members including Vice Chair and Treasurer - Annual Report & finances discussion, with resolution voting - Incorporated Societies Act presentation Heather Hayden 2.00pm* Guest speaker: Behrouz Boochani (livestreamed) Behrouz Boochani 3.00pm Afternoon tea – Happy Birthday to Amnesty cake and drinks 3.30pm Dove Awards and inaugural winners of the Gary Ware Legacy Award Margaret Taylor 4pm Wrap up and End Meg de Ronde 6:00pm Social Dinner - Saigon Centre, South City Shopping Centre, Christchurch, 8011 SKILLSHARE Sunday, 30 May, 9.00am – 3.30pm 9.00am Welcome & Karakia 9.10am Discussion on improving youth participation at governance level Alva Feldmeier 10.00am Morning tea 10.30am Talking about the rights of people in detention Campaigning to end Tania Sawicki-Mead, detention of asylum seekers in NZ Justspeak. Joining us via Zoom. 11.15am Campaigning to end detention of asylum seekers in NZ, and including Annaliese Johnston interactive workshop and Margaret Taylor 1.00pm Lunch Jason Garman and 1.45pm Having more human rights impact with media and social media Olivia Bartlett 3.15pm Farewell & review Margaret Taylor Meet our Speakers PANELLIST: TIM BARNETT Tim Barnett currently works as the Chief of Staff to the Northern Territory's Attorney-General and Minister of Aboriginal Affairs. His career has included NGO leadership (e.g. the first Executive Director of the Stonewall Group in the UK (equal rights under the law for lesbians and gay men); Chief Executive of FinCap in Aotearoa New Zealand), iwi development (Tuhoe, 2015-17), elected politics for 18 years of his life (London boroughs for six years, NZ Parliament 1996-2008), Labour Party General Secretary 2012-15. He was involved with Amnesty British Section and International Secretariat when a student at the London School of Economics (1979-81), and continued his human rights focus with Stonewall; with sex workers in South Africa; and also when, as a MP, he was Labour's Human Rights spokesperson 1996-99, Chair of Parliament's Justice and Electoral Committee 1999-2005; his members bill to decriminalise sex work became law and he helped forge the Civil Union legislation. PANELLIST: CARWYN JONES Before joining the Faculty of Law at Victoria University of Wellington in 2006, Carwyn Jones (Ngāti Kahungunu) worked in various roles at the Māori Land Court, Waitangi Tribunal, and Office of Treaty Settlements. He also served as a negotiator for his community, Ngā Iwi me ngā Hapū o Te Rohe o Te Wairoa, in the settlement of their historical claims against the Crown. Carwyn’s primary research interests relate to the Treaty of Waitangi and Indigenous legal traditions, and he has published numerous articles on these topics. He is the author of New Treaty, New Tradition – Reconciling New Zealand and Māori Law (UBC Press and VUP, 2016) and co-editor of Indigenous Peoples and the State: International Perspectives on the Treaty of Waitangi (Routledge, 2018). He is also Co-Editor of the Māori Law Review and of AlterNative – an international journal of Indigenous peoples. He is currently the Tumuaki Tāne of Te Hunga Rōia Māori o Aotearoa (Co-President of the Māori Law Society). PANELLIST: MEG DE RONDE Meg de Ronde is the Executive Director of Amnesty International Aotearoa New Zealand. She’s been with Amnesty International since 2015 and was Campaigns Director for four years, overseeing human rights campaigning, research, advocacy, youth, media and activism work. Meg has a huge breadth of experience in grassroots volunteering, activism, politics and media. Her work has led to several great successes for Amnesty International, including the campaigns to Double the Refugee Quota and to ensure that Community Sponsorship of Refugees prospers in New Zealand, as well as building the foundations of a domestic research programme. Meg is not only the first woman to be Executive Director of the New Zealand section, but the youngest person to take on the job and one of the youngest of all the Amnesty International sections around the world. KEYNOTE SPEAKER: BEHROUZ BOOCHANI Behrouz Boochani is an award-winning Kurdish writer, journalist, scholar, human rights defender and filmmaker. After fleeing Iran in 2013, he was incarcerated by the Australian Government in Papua New Guinea for nearly six years. He is now a New Zealander and Senior Adjunct Research Fellow at the University of Canterbury Annual Hui 2021 – Nominees NOMINEE FOR MEETING CHAIRPERSON: JOANNE LOOYEN Joanne has been an Amnesty Member for over 20 years and an active volunteer for most of that time. She’s the coordinator of the Wellington Team and a member of the Karori Letter Writing Group. Joanne has been Chair or Deputy Chair several times, including when Amnesty celebrated its 50th birthday. Joanne’s involvement with Amnesty includes organising groups for collection days, panel discussions, speaker events, Human Rights days events and stalls, being an Amnesty spokesperson at a documentary film festival and of course turning up for marches and protests. As a day job, Joanne is a public servant working in science funding at the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment. NOMINEE FOR THE BOARD: TAYYABA KHAN Tayyaba is the founder & CEO of Khadija Leadership Network, the New Zealand (NZ) Peace Ambassador for the European Muslim League, a civil servant, and a community development practitioner with over 15 years of experience having worked with the migrant and refugee communities in The Occupied Territories of Palestine, Australia, United Kingdom and New Zealand. Tayyaba currently sits on the governance board of Mixit & Belong Aotearoa. She is also a regular panellist on RNZ’s ‘The Panel’, and ‘The AM Show’. Since 9/11, Tayyaba has worked extensively with the Muslim community on a range of initiatives, such as founding Young Muslim Women’s Association and being recognised for this work by being awarded the Sonja Davies Peace Award in 2005 by the former Prime Minister, the Hon. Helen Clark. She is also the founder of the first Muslim club in her former high school, played a pivotal in the establishment of a Muslim student’s club in her university and became the first female President of an Islamic Society on campus in NZ. Tayyaba often comments on how she is of the era of young people who introduced Islam Awareness Week into NZ. As a commentator in the media who is a voice against Islamophobia in New Zealand, to better understand the impact of War on Terror policies on Muslims Tayyaba has worked with the only Muslim-led advocacy organisation, CAGE UK. For almost two decades now she continues to participate in public talks on Islam and Muslims to continue resisting against and reframing the negative perceptions that have led to a significant rise in Islamophobia around the world. Tayyaba is deeply passionate about working with minority and faith-based communities. Her particular interest with these demographics is posited in utilising social justice, human rights, and ethical approaches to building a better and more peaceful world for everyone. She is a global citizen with experience of working in organisations such as the Australian Red Cross, British Red Cross, Alzheimer’s UK, and being the former CE of ChangeMakers Refugee Forum. Tayyaba was co-opted to the Board at our last AGM. Since then, she’s been learning about how our Board works and has made such an impact that, as Rosslyn Noonan steps down from the Board, Tayyaba’s being nominated to replace her in the role of Vice Chair. NOMINEE FOR THE BOARD: JONATHON HAGGER Jonathon is an experienced senior manager with skills in finance, management and administration. Jonathon is currently the Chief Executive of Rotorua Community Hospice and has been in the role for 18 months. Prior to this, Jonathon worked in the tertiary education sector for over a decade supporting the humanities, foundation education, and health faculty. Experience in governance is evidenced through his being Chairperson of Piringa Mental Health Services, a kaupapa Maori health provider, in Rotorua for three years. Jonathon is committed to upholding the mana - honour and rights and rangatiratanga - ability to self- determine for all peoples. The opportunity to serve on the Board of Amnesty International New Zealand would be an incredible honour. At our last AGM, the decision was made to co-opt Jonathon onto the AIANZ board to learn the Treasurer role before the current office holder, Geoff Waker, finishes his duties. This arrangement has given Jonathon time to familiarise himself with the purpose, values, and workings of AIANZ. As Geoff Walker steps down at this AGM, Jonathan will be nominated for the role
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