Tania Sawicki Mead and Ashlesha Sawant

Guest writer

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

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

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

By Tania Sawicki Mead and Ashlesha Sawant | 28th November, 2018