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There are about 5 million people affected by leprosy around the globe. Lynda Chanwai-Earle and Justin Gregory bring us a story about high profile Asian New Zealanders in Bangladesh bringing aid to… Audio, Gallery

According to Adam Minter of Bloomberg View, the sweatshop model of low-cost labour could soon be consigned to history as it gives way to automation and technology. Plus China's booming fishing fleet… Audio

Long Covid patients report being gaslit about their illness, and feel increasingly let down by the health system.  Audio

Political representation from the Pasifika community has been lost in an ocean of white faces and blue suits. Does it matter?  Audio

The pop culture dollar is being laid down on Barbie and Taylor Swift, as young women not in the market for a mortgage splash their joy around.  Audio

The National Council of Women has marked its 100 year anniversary with its annual national conference, held in Christchurch, the home of Kate Sheppard, who founded the organisation. The theme was "A… Audio

An Auckland University student says she's been called the "n-word" and "abbo" growing up in Auckland's affluent North Shore, and that racism is an everyday experience for Māori there. Audio

Disability advocates are outraged out-dated ramps at Wellington train stations are posing a barrier to wheelchair users getting to work. Support worker and wheelchair user Samantha Eddie works in… Audio

Auckland theatre group Bits and Pieces Ensemble discuss topics often seen as taboo, from menstruation to women’s perspective of sex, their bodies and childbirth. Audio

In theatre women are still underrepresented in every aspect – on stage, behind the scenes, directing and in management and governance roles. The Hui on Women in Theatre in September brings together… Audio

South Taranaki mayor Ross Dunlop says he has no plans to resign after it was revealed he was on a judging panel that awarded second prize to a float in an A&P parade featuring people in 'blackface'. Audio

Fearful, intimidated and ready to leave - is how one Māori professor is describing the current climate at the University of Waikato.

More than 2,500 people have signed an open letter calling for the… Audio

A prominent medical organisation has called a proposal by Otago University to impose caps on special medical school admissions for Māori and Pasifika "deeply disturbing".

The Royal Australasian… Audio

A Dunedin teenager is butting heads with his high school over his hairstyle.

Lewis O'Malley-Scott's corn-rows were deemed to be extreme by King's High School.

But, as Timothy Brown reports, his… Video, Audio