The Association promotes rationalism and secular humanism principles.
The principal aims are stated as the following: NZARH is an associate member of the International Humanist and Ethical Union.
All member organisations of the IHEU are required by IHEU bylaw 5.1 to accept [1] the IHEU Minimum statement on Humanism: In 2000, NZARH was awarded a Bravo award by the New Zealand Skeptics for "issuing a challenge to visiting Australian Ellen Greve, aka Jasmuheen.
She was claimed to have survived only by breathing air and eating nothing.
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