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.
human rights
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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.
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What was on display at Laneway
The true ugliness of the appalling abuse thrown at Kim Vinnell has been in the response section of the newspaper comments.
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An open letter of welcome to Syrian refugees
To the Syrians who arrived in New Zealand last week, I greet you with a warm “Marhaba” – you are all welcome in Aoteroa!
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Growing up on death row – Amnesty International
Between 2005 and 2015, Amnesty International recorded 73 hangings of child offenders, including at least four in 2015. A UN report issued in August 2014 stated that more than 160 juvenile offenders were on death row.
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Tony Veitch fractured his partner’s spine in four places but still thinks he is the “victim”
In Aotearoa we don’t just give rich white men like Tony a “get out of free jail card” when they beat women over sustained periods of time and break their bones, we celebrate them.
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Revenge porn, consent and why people need to stop victim blaming Jennifer Lawrence
We live in a culture that endlessly blames women for other people’s violence and violations against them. We live in a culture that fears a women’s sexuality, but teaches us it is the only real currency of value.