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Nurses have told MPs that patient care could suffer if proposed changes to employment laws are allowed to go ahead.

A Government report on the status of human rights in New Zealand says improvements have been made in areas of concern highlighted by the United Nations, such as discrimination, inequality and family…

Youth law advocacy group, Just Speak, is suggesting the whole criminal justice system needs reviewing to see if prevention programmes are really working.

The head of a prostate cancer taskforce says a greater effort is to be made to improve understanding among Maori communities about prostate cancer.

The Maori arm of the Nurses Organisation say it is still fighting pay inequalities which see some nurses at iwi agencies paid 25% less than those at district health boards.

The body reviewing the Pacific's blue print for regional development, the Pacific Plan, says the Pacific Islands Forum itself has to adapt. The Plan is the key document driving the...

A French Senate committee has altered a bill by the Minister of Women's Rights, Najat Belkacem-Vallaud, for measures to combat gender inequalities. It also says the equality clauses should apply...

Fiji's prime minister, Commodore Frank Bainimarama, has told a meeting in Hong Kong that it is a myth that the South must depend fully on developed countries for technology. Speaking...

Te Tairawhiti District Health Board's Maori representation is welcoming proposed Maori health training for DHBs.

Chilean Ambassador Isauro Torres says his government in Santiago wants to empower its indigenous communities and is looking at how Maori and Pakeha work together as a model it can use with the Mapuche…

Outrage is growing in South Africa over the renovation bill for President Jacob Zuma's private retirement home.

Sylvia Park School principal Barbara Ala'alatoa says the education profession can't turn its back on the inequity of national standards results for Pacific children. Audio

A new labour market study in Germany shows that one in four workers are employed in the low-wage sector and take home less than two-thirds of the national average pay.

Labour says an Otago University study linking overcrowding with infectious diseases reinforces the need for more affordable housing.

Health researchers have found that overcrowded housing partly explains why so many Maori and Pacific children end up in hospital. Audio

A Maori health study claims there are significant inequalities and inherent racism amongst some mainstream health practitioners when they deal with Maori men.