Tania Sawicki Mead and Ashlesha SawantTania Sawicki Mead and Ashlesha Sawant

Tania Sawicki Mead is director and Ashlesha Sawant a volunteer at JustSpeak, a youth-led movement for transformative change in criminal justice towards a fair, just and compassionate Aotearoa

To call ourselves a truly representative democracy, this voting law must change

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Aren’t Can’t Don’t: The ban on prisoners voting is the worst kind of anti-democratic law – harsh, disproportionate and fundamentally at odds with the idea that human rights belong to all of us, write Tania Sawicki Mead and Ashlesha Sawant of JustSpeak Many New Zealanders would likely vote for fairness as our foundational virtue as … Read more