If your defence of rape requires “like any red-blooded male would”, perhaps you need a new lawyer
The terrible case of a young cricketeer allegedly raping a young woman is as depressing as the defence the lawyers has tried to use today.
human rights
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New Zealand represented on Women’s Boat to Gaza
This year the Freedom Flotilla Coalition will launch an all-women fleet to challenge the nearly 10-year-old blockade of Gaza. In…
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Kia Ora Gaza Fundraiser
Kia Ora Gaza have launched an appeal to contribute $25,000 to the Flotilla from New Zealand. Kia Ora Gaza have supported previous flotillas, and also been involved in international land convoys in 2010 and 2012. They donated three ambulances in 2010, and co-sponsored two ambulances for Gaza in 2015.
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Helen Kelly’s courage continues in face of death
We need an adult discussion now on cannabis, allowing people like Helen to be called a criminal by the Police and Government is an outrage too far.
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Urge Iran to Free Nazanin
I am writing this knowing full well that, one day, it might land me in an Iranian jail where Nazanin is at the moment.
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The Writing’s on the Wall
The most important local target is the NZ Superannuation Fund, which invests in several companies that profit from Israel’s stranglehold on Palestine. It’s not pretty – among these are several manufacturers of military equipment used to massacre and maim Palestinian civilian populations, banks operating in and financing the illegal Israeli settlements and Caterpillar bulldozers that destroy Palestinian homes.
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The Palestine Marathon – Asserting the Right to Move Around
The fourth Palestine Marathon took place in Bethlehem last Friday and I was lucky enough to be among the 4,300 participants running a 10km, a full marathon or a half-marathon in my case. The event is organised by the Palestine Olympic Committee and a group called Right to Movement,
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NZs homophobic, anti-disability, anti-solo parent adoption laws
Of late I’ve been trying to get my head around the discriminatory adoption laws the Human Rights Review Tribunal has recently bought to public awareness.
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The struggle to make different ok
Two weeks ago the story broke about a mathematics professor who was denied residency in New Zealand because his stepson has autism.
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AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL – My love/hate relationship with Australia
For too long I’ve excused your boorish behaviour because of how your golden shores were so brutally colonised. My Aboriginal brothers and sisters shot down as vermin; the torturous treatment meted out within those convict settlements – irrespective of guilt or innocence, irrespective of youth, age or gender.