A woman trying to get drugs funded for young SMA patients was horrified when Pharmac said it might end blanket funding of kids cancer medicines because she had accused it of discrimination. Now the drug-buying agency says it is likely to follow through.
These are some of the New Zealand children with SMA. Their families wanted to share their photos. Samreet and Kulture, whose photos are marked with flowers and hearts, have passed away.
Photo: RNZ/Vinay Ranchhod
Fiona Tolich checks the list in her exercise book for a second time, making sure there s a blue tick beside each child s name. Then she tallies the names out loud, her count barely audible as her eyes run down the page.
Friday, 5 February 2021, 11:58 am
Constitutional transformation is required to enable the
full implementation of Te Tiriti across Aotearoa says the
Human Rights Commission.
The call was made by all four
Commissioners of the Human Rights Commission and the
Director of the Office of Human Rights Proceedings in
commemoration of Waitangi Day.
Rangatira entered into
a partnership with the Crown through the signing of Te
Tiriti o Waitangi on February 6 1840 affirming the
pre-existing rights of tangata whenua to exercise their tino
rangatiratanga and mana motuhake in all decision-making
processes.
The treaty affirmed that tangata whenua had
the inherent authority to exercise, maintain and develop
Press Release – New Zealand Human Rights Commission Constitutional transformation is required to enable the full implementation of Te Tiriti across Aotearoa says the Human Rights Commission. The call was made by all four Commissioners of the Human Rights Commission and the Director of the Office …
Constitutional transformation is required to enable the full implementation of Te Tiriti across Aotearoa says the Human Rights Commission.
The call was made by all four Commissioners of the Human Rights Commission and the Director of the Office of Human Rights Proceedings in commemoration of Waitangi Day.
Rangatira entered into a partnership with the Crown through the signing of Te Tiriti o Waitangi on February 6 1840 affirming the pre-existing rights of tangata whenua to exercise their tino rangatiratanga and mana motuhake in all decision-making processes.
Sasha Borissenko: Cultural appropriation and racial discrimination - it s not okay
27 Dec, 2020 01:00 AM
5 minutes to read
NZ Herald
OPINION: Meri Kirihimete. What better way to celebrate Christmas than to look at some of this year s cases of ho ho no - be it cultural appropriation, or racial discrimination. Identity politics and human rights are fraught areas to discuss, particularly as they also bring to light issues around representation, and virtue signalling.
And for every complaint of tone-deaf marketing and discrimination, there will be screeds of potential perpetrators who can t handle the discomfort and who scream political correctness-gone mad from the rooftops.
December 16, 2020 3:00 AMLegal
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LOS ANGELES Sex workers employed by legal brothels have the same rights to be free from sexual harassment as any other workers. That principle was confirmed in a lawsuit by a New Zealand sex worker who on Monday won a six-figure settlement from her employer, according to a report by the BBC.
Under New Zealand law, the identities of the both the sex worker and the target of her lawsuit, as well as the exact amount of the settlement, were not made public. But sex worker advocate Dame Catherine Healy, of the New Zealand Sex Workers Collective, said that the court decision serves as a “wake up call” for sexually oriented businesses.