Our law currently states that it is illegal for an individual to inflict an electrical shock into another person. However recently police throughout NZ have been given taser guns which do exactly that. It is obvious in this instance, that the law doesn’t apply to those whose job it is to uphold it….
Human Rights / Mana Tangata
CHILDREN & YOUTH RIGHTS; WHERE DOES NEW ZEALAND STAND?
The forum I attended was set up as a way to discuss the government’s role and progress in children and youth rights and to allow the opportunity for youth, government and NGO representatives to collaborate around these issues. This meeting was the first forum where youth, governmental and non-governmental agencies came together to discuss the rights of children outlined by UNCROC.
My School The Corporation
By Omar Hamed
As I walked up the tree lined driveway to school one morning I was confronted by an interesting juxtaposition. A large Document Destruction Service truck pulled up next to the schools offices. What was the DDS doing outside Senior Management’s offices? Were they getting rid of unfavourable Education Review Office reports or the expenses lists for the Principals recent excursion to Wellington? The answer will doubtless remain a mystery thanks to a tax-payer funded document destruction. The truck drove away and suddenly the ironic site of the DDS outside an education institution was gone.
Do You Speak English?
Racial prejudice is founded on a lack of awareness; we fear what we do not understand. It occurs in varying degrees, from throwaway remarks, to the increasing number of brutal attacks on ethnic people in New Zealand.
Profile Of A Pacific Political Prisoner
By Cameron Walker
Imagine being thrown in a filthy prison, where your cell mates mysteriously ‘disappear’ overnight, just for waving your country’s flag. For many years this was a reality for my West Papuan friend Fransiskus Kandam.
Interview with an Aotearoa peacebuilder
by Annie Boanas, age 23, Wellington
Pauline Tangiora Q.S.O., Q.S.M. is a Māori elder from the Rongomaiwahine tribe on the East Coast of the North Island of Aotearoa New Zealand. She has affiliations with many other tribes. She is a Justice of the Peace, a former President and currently Vice President of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (Aotearoa), the former Regional Women’s Representative for the World Council for indigenous peoples, an Earth Charter Commissioner and a member of the Earth Council. She is a life member of the Māori Women’s Welfare League and a Patron of the Peace Foundation. She has represented Aotearoa at many international fora and was a Consultant to the International Steering Committee of the World Court Project, a legal challenge to nuclear weapons.
She has also been recently nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize.
Clothes maketh the man: Clothes and expression
By Miranda Cossar. The clothes we choose to wear are one of the most obvious ways we can tell the world who we are. But some people are freer to do so than others.
Don’t Sweat It
By Cameron Walker, Auckland. So it turns out the new hoodie that was going to make you feel good and like you fit in (finally) for just the small price of $149.95 was actually made by an under-paid, over-worked young woman in Asia. Yeah. Still feeling good?
