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In August 2013 Labour MP Louisa Wall's Marriage Amendment Act came into effect. Since the passing of this historic law, more than two thousand same sex couples have tied the knot. RNZ's Eyewitness… Video, Audio

Around 15 percent of New Zealand's population is Maori and yet they make up over 50 percent of prison inmates. In Canada indigenous people represent 25% of the inmates in state prisons, despite making… 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

Kim Hill talks to Duncan Grieve, the founder and editor of The Spinoff, an Auckland-based online magazine and custom content creator. He appears at three WORD Christchurch events: The Spinoff After… Audio

Kim Hill talks to Leigh Hopkinson, a New Zealand-born, Melbourne-based writer and editor, whose first book is a memoir about her years working in striptease - Two Decades Naked. Audio

Sheila Watt-Cloutier is an environmental and human rights advocate who was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 for her work on how global climate change is affecting human rights, especially… Audio

Kim Hill talks to Cécile Maisonneuve, President of La Fabrique de la Cité, and a senior adviser and former head of the Centre for Energy at the French Institute for International Relations, and to… 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

New Zealand Soprano Joanne Roughton-Arnold premieres a one woman opera in London this week.  Iris Dreaming is based on the life of New Zealand writer and pioneering feminist, Iris Wilkinson, who wrote… Audio

Debbie Stoller is the co-founder, co-publisher and editor-in-chief of BUST magazine in New York, and co-edited The BUST Guide to the New Girl Order and The BUST DIY Guide to Life. In 1999, she formed… Audio

Kim Hill talks to indigenous Australian director Ryan Griffen, creator of the Australia/New Zealand produced television series Cleverman, a futuristic drama with roots in Aboriginal mythology. Double… Audio

Kim Hill talks to Professor Jacinta Ruru (Raukawa), who has been the only Maori Law Faculty staff member at the University of Otago since 1999. She has designed a new experience of learning law that… Audio

Nicolette Fraillon is the only woman to hold the job of chief conductor and musical director of a professional ballet company. She busted the glass ceiling years ago as top dog of The Australian… Audio

Religious beliefs are amongst the biggest barriers towards ending violence against women in the Pacific. Audio

Courtney Sina Meredith, Dr Ngahuia Te Awekotuku, Dr Pala Molisa; and Rosanna Raymond. talk with Mihingarangi Forbes Audio

Maggie Wilkinson has been fighting a 30-year battle for the government to investigate the forced adoption of babies born to unwed mothers from the late 1950s to the mid 1970s. Audio