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This week’s 20-year anniversary of New Zealand decriminalising prostitution offers little to celebrate, say advocates who lobbied against the law change in 2003. Stop Demand, which works to end sexual violence and exploitation, says the collateral ...

A group calling for action to stop sexual violence against women and children has welcomed the lifting of name suppression for the predatory Christchurch-based brothers, Daniel Jaz (40) and Roberto Jaz (38). However, it says a spotlight also needs to ...

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Calls for action to stop sexual violence Stop Demand works to reduce demand that drives the global sex trade. It works to identify, challenge and seek a shift in attitudes and beliefs that underpin and sustain all forms of sexual violence, sexual exploitation and sexual denigration of women and children. Stop Demands key platform is education - through public awareness raising, calling for local and global action, co-ordinating campaigns, mobilising the community in particular the male commu...

Jacinda Ardern looks into stripping Ron Brierleys knighthood, Wellington College cuts ties 1 Apr, 2021 12:33 AM 6 minutes to read Sir Ron Brierley leaving a Sydney court after admitting possession of child sex abuse materials. Photo / Liam Mendes Sir Ron Brierley leaving a Sydney court after admitting possession of child sex abuse materials. Photo / Liam Mendes Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has asked officials to begin work on a process that could lead to Sir Ron Brierley being stripped of his ...

Thursday, 1 April 2021, 1:22 pm Today’s guilty plea in Sydney by New Zealand-born businessman Sir Ron Brierley, to charges of possessing child sex abuse material, should pave the way for the former high-flyer to be stripped of his knighthood, says a long-time campaigner and law reformer on such crimes. Stop Demand founder and barrister Denise Ritchie, MNZM, said that given today’s guilty plea the process should be relatively straightforward. According to the Department of the Prime Minist...

Sir Ron Brierley, once a lauded corporate raider, now viewed with contempt. (file photo) Brierley Investments was once the country’s biggest listed company, its eponymous founder famous for hunting down undervalued companies and selling off their assets for a profit. It’s estimated one in every 20 New Zealanders owned shares in the corporate raider, and it made Sir Ron Brierley very rich, with a wealth consistently estimated well over $100 million, elevating him to the top of the corporate...