Advocacy

We relentlessly advocate for an end to violence against children and ensure the voices of the world’s most vulnerable children are heard loud and clear.

Cherry (16), Myanmar

Join us in calling for a Collective Resilience Plan

Join us in calling for a Collective Resilience Plan

COVID-19 is creating a crisis unlike any we’ve known before. It’s threatening the lives of the world’s poorest children, as they become more vulnerable to exploitation, hunger and diseases. We need to act, and we need to act fast. 

As a part of our biggest ever global emergency response, World Vision has partnered with Oxfam, Christian World Service, and The Anglican Movement Diocese of Wellington calling on our government, to increase foreign aid in the wake of COVID-19. Read our open letter to the incoming government.

We need your help. Sign the petition below today, and download and send this letter to Hon Nanaia Mahuta, the new Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade explaining why you feel foreign aid should be increased.

The time to act is now. Please share this with your friends and family.

<span style="color:#ff6b00"><h3>Sign the petition today!</h3></span>

Sign the petition today!

Sign the petition to join us in calling for a Collective Resilience Plan that helps New Zealand build a strong global community.

To the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Finance Minister, we call on you to implement a Collective Resilience Plan in Budget 2021 that provides:
  • A 20% boost to the overseas aid budget, plus;
  • A doubling of finance for overseas climate action from new and additional sources, and;
  • Adopt a target for getting aid spending to 0.7% of gross national income by 2030.
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World Vision is advocating for lasting change.

<br><br>World Vision is advocating for lasting change.

We believe in the power of a person’s voice. Its ability to do the impossible, battle inequality and call for justice.

As we work alongside communities to build a better world for children, our advocacy challenges the policies, systems, structures, practices and attitudes that make it difficult for vulnerable children and their families to experience life in all its fullness.

By addressing the systemic contributors to and causes of poverty, World Vision’s advocacy work ensures that community transformation is sustainable and scalable. We want all children, everywhere, to live in safety and dignity.

World Vision advocates at the local, national, regional and global levels, informed by our experience working with communities.



Together, we are making a lasting impact on the lives of vulnerable children in the fight for justice.

<h4>Fair for all refugee quota</h4>

Fair for all refugee quota

In 2019, we campaigned to change discriminatory refugee quota restrictions – and we succeeded. We called on the New Zealand government to end restrictions that blocked refugees from Africa and the Middle East settling here. 

While the number of people fleeing conflict in Africa and the Middle East has increased, policy restrictions like needing family members already living in New Zealand have meant that since 2011, only 12 refugees from South Sudan had been allowed to resettle here.

On the 4th of October, the government announced they were finally scrapping the family link policy.

 
<h4>Kids off Nauru</h4>

Kids off Nauru

In August 2018 we asked you to join the call to get all the Kids Off Nauru. Together, we advocated for the 119 children and their families detained indefinitely on the island of Nauru to be moved to safety. 

In February 2019, we welcomed the news that all refugee children have now been taken off Nauru; however, the case is not closed as many still face an uncertain future with no permanent settlement solution.

We will continue to advocate for the refugee children who have been taken to Australia for medical treatment and don’t have permanent settlement solutions.
 
<h4>Ending violence against children</h4>

Ending violence against children

We believe that a world without violence against children is possible.

As part of a five-year campaign across World Vision offices globally, we are encouraging governments and communities around the world to do more to end violence against children. Highlighting it when it occurs and holding those responsible to account. 

We work to prevent violence wherever it occurs, so no child has to experience it, particularly to address the high rates of physical and sexual violence in Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Timor Leste and Vanuatu.
 

When people in power understand the rights and needs of children, lives can be transformed.



Use your voice to make a difference

Protect Women and Children from Violence

Every year, thousands of women and children across the Pacific are affected by physical and sexual violence. Local attitudes normalise violence, and there is little support for survivors. But it doesn’t have to be this way. Together, we can make sure women and children can live free from the fear of violence.

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Take action on climate change

In the Pacific, the effects of climate change are already a daily reality. These homes in Fanalei, Solomon Islands, are overlooking what was once a taro plantation. These families now desperately need to find somewhere else to grow their food, or they will be forced to relocate away from their ancestral homes.

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Advocacy Resources

Part of our advocacy work in New Zealand involves the creation and distribution of education resources for primary and secondary schools, so they can learn about global issues and injustices.

Climate Change topic sheet

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It Takes a World - Global Report

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Policy Paper on Climate Change

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Policy Report - Solutions to Prevent Violence Against Children

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Poverty and the Environment topic sheet

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Protecting Children topic sheet

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What works to end violence against children?

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