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A conflict resolution expert, Tracy Vienings, says Pacific countries have to put more effort into overcoming issues of marginalisation and inequality. She says these are often at the root of...

Fiji's Women's Crisis Centre says most women turn to prostitution out of poverty and new powers in the crimes decree will make matters worse. Prostitution has always been illegal in...

Fiji's spokesman at the United Nation Human Rights Council in Geneva promises this week's key meeting on Fiji will mark the start of an improved society for the people of...

Groups representing senior hospital doctors and independent GPs are to join forces. The two groups cover much of the health system.

Senior doctor groups say a proposal to allow patients in public hospitals to pay for extra treatment will lead to a two-tier health system. And the Labour Party says it will disadvantage those who…

The possibility of a land tax has real difficulties and people should not assume the Government will implement one, says Prime Minister John Key. Audio

Poet J. C. Sturm, former wife of James K. Baxter, died in Wellington on Wednesday. She was 82.

Samoa's telecommunication corporation SamoaTel is celebrating a court ruling. This follows the dismissal of mobile phone operator Digicel Samoa's appeal in the Samoa Supreme Court last week…

New Caledonian leaders have told the United Nations Decolonisation Committee about the process in place since the French territory was put on the decolonisation list in the 1980s. The territory's...

The Council of Trade Unions is warning a gap in the wages between Maori and non-Maori is widening.

The Tonga Government has taken issue with claims in the Kele'a newspaper that it wants the country split into small electorates in the political reforms expected in coming months. The...

A spokesman for the New Caledonian movement to free the jailed USTKE unionists says he deplores the mistakes made during the three months of tensions before an agreement was reached...

More details are said to be needed on how Fiji's new Domestic Violence Decree will be put into practice. The Creative Director of Women's Action for Change, Peni Moore, says...

The Council of Christian Social Services says rising food and energy costs are causing major financial problems for families and community agencies are struggling to meet demand.

Human Rights Commissioner Rosslyn Noonan says New Zealand has been praised as a role model for its human rights performance, but challenges still remain.

"Social justice" is out and "value for money" is in, according to a list of 26 phrases circulating at the Ministry of Health. Audio

A major one-day jobs summit has produced a list of 20 ideas, one of which would see workplaces operating nine-day fortnights as a way of saving jobs. Audio

The Equality and Human Rights Commission threatened on Friday to take legal action against more than 100 councils in Britain for failing to provide specialised services for women who are victims of…