Human Rights

Children’s human rights are going backwards in Australia and First Nations kids are particularly at risk.

The indigenous West Timorese, who live in an Indonesian province, share Māori concerns about the extraction of natural resources without consultation with the local people.

Pacific solidarity drives historic UN recognition of France’s human rights violations in the struggle for self-determination and decolonisation in New Caledonia.

Human rights activist Rosa Moiwend links Māori culture to her advocacy, highlights military occupation, human rights violations and resource exploitation in West Papua.

The controversial electoral reform which caused five months of civil unrest in Kanaky (New Caledonia) will not proceed, French PM Michel Barnier has announced.

The United Nations Human Rights Office has sent a please-explain to the New Zealand government over the alleged breach of human rights of Māori in Nelson and Waikato.

The Human Rights Commission is in Geneva this week for the 17th annual session of the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

Critics are questioning the legality and enforceability of the government's ban on gang patches.

Rangatahi Maōri activist and law student Te Matahiapo Safari Hynes was announced today as the winner of Amnesty International Aotearoa New Zealand’s Gary Ware Legacy Award.

Claire Charters says the actions of the new coalition government are jeopardising New Zealand's standing as the 'world's foremost leader on realising indigenous people’s rights;.