MPs began the week with an urgent debate on redress for abuse in state care, and criticism of the government's change of mind about an independent redress system for survivors.

GENEVA (9 May 2025) - The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) today issued its findings on Gabon, Kyrgyzstan, Mauritius, the Republic of Korea and Ukraine after reviewing ...

The UN aviation agency blames Russia for the downing of a Malaysian jetliner over Ukraine in 2014, leading to the deaths of ...

"The Deepfake Digital Harm and Exploitation Bill expands existing legislation around revenge porn and intimate recordings, ...

The government will not be setting up a new compensation scheme for survivors, as it had promised for so long, and as the Abuse in Care Royal Commission of Inquiry had recommended. Instead, 774 ...

Instead, the coalition is injecting almost $775 million into the existing redress system over the next four years. He said the government looked at the pros and cons of a new system, and there were a ...

The New Zealand government said on Friday it would spend NZ$774 million ($457 million) in its 2025 budget for redress and ...

Police have named the man who died after a crash at Te Poi, Waikato, in January. He was Simon Munday, 62, of Rotorua. The ...

A public inquiry in 2024 found some 200,000 children and vulnerable adults in state care in New Zealand experienced some form ...

That works out to $150,000 per person, and the victims had until last week to decide if it was fair. More than 70 survivors ...