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Recap : Māori | NZ

New Mandate for LGBTI Rights at the UN

Stamps commemorating the UN Free and Equal Rights Campaign in defense of LGBTI rights, launched in 2016, which caused unrest in 54 African ... View article...

The night Victorian police raided the Tasty nightclub

“We still have a long way before trust can be rebuilt,” Ms Brown says, pointing to the botched raid on an LGBTI bookshop in Melbourne, Hares and ... View article...

The forgotten factor

Not everyone who opposes abortion is a raging misogynist; not everyone with qualms about the latest frontier in LGBTI rights is a hate-filled ... View article...

Action needed to end school bullying torment of LGBTI students

LGBTI young people are five times more likely to be victims of intimidation and attacks - forcing many to skip classes or drop out of school completely. View article...

Cameroon: Trans people form trans advocacy network

“Now we can show what we are capable of. ” Steeves Winner, the author of this article, is an activist for LGBTI rights in Cameroon who writes under a ... View article...

U.S. Embassy in Germany hosts meeting with LGBTI activists

U.S. Ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell participated in a panel with a group of LGBTI activists that took place at the U.S. ... View article...

How a hashtag looks set to offer LGBTI people a MeToo moment in Poland View

Ten days ago, approaching the main city square where Białystok's first ever LGBTI pride march was due to start, I was met with a scene of chaos. View article...

The New Humanitarian

Notorious in the early 2000s for its high rate of femicide, Juárez is a dangerous city to wait in, especially for migrants and women, not to mention LGBTI ... View article...

Brisbane's path to Indigenous recognition since the Uluru Statement from the Heart

will have a chance to vote to recognise First Nations people in our constitution in the next three years and momentum for reform is ... View article...

A feasible pathway towards achieving a voice mechanism

He begins by emphasising the reality of indigenous history and culture prior to the colonisation of Australia, and the further waves of migration that ... View article...

Found in Translation: The journey of a multilingual dictionary

2019 is the international year of Indigenous languages. ... I wanted to make it available to Central Australian Aboriginal communities since it remained ... View article...

Why the huge Aboriginal painting coming to Sharjah this November is a must-see

The Ngurrara are Aboriginal people who originally lived on the Great Sandy Desert, in the north west of Australia. They were reportedly some of the ... View article...

ABC dramatises British nuclear tests

Carried out in secret, the tests were later blamed for their long-term health effects on the Aboriginal custodians of the land and former Australian ... View article...

Sam Newman's shock move after Adam Goodes controversy

We see that Australia's history of dispossession and disempowerment of ... impact on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander players and communities. View article...

Burrup partnerships to go on

The University of Western Australia, Rio Tinto and the Murujuga Aboriginal Corporation have had a partnership to monitor the art for the past five years ... View article...

Attack on national anthem aired in school

Indigenous students at a Canberra school have screened controversial footage of popular Aboriginal rapper Adam Briggs denouncing the Australian ... View article...

Hands Off Our Tamariki marchers reject collaboration

"We want an alternative system and we want our way to do that, our pathways for our whānau Māori and especially tamariki to heal. We're not ... View article...

$11.5 million project to revolutionise ocean forecasting

A bold new project that will revolutionise New Zealand's ability to comprehensively ... Whakatōhea Māori Trust Board, Chair Robert Edwards says the ... View article...

First Māori writer to receive Michael King Fellowship

... Kahungunu and Ngāti Pahauwera) is the first Māori writer to be awarded the prestigious Creative New ZealandMichael King Writer's Fellowship. View article...

Kelvin Davis rejects calls for PM to visit Ihumātao ater return

Minister for Crown Māori Relations Kelvin Davis has rebuffed protesters' calls for the Prime Minister to visit Ihumātao after her return to New Zealand ... View article...

Te Arawa all-stars unite for Aronui Indigenous Arts Festival

The whāriki (foundations) of the ahurei (festival) have been woven together by the New Zealand Māori Arts and Crafts Institute (NZMACI), Te Tatau o ... View article...

High hopes to get more Māori completing university, with the help of US programme

He became the first aviator to circumnavigate the globe in a New Zealand made aircraft that is also believed to be the smallest single engine aircraft to ... View article...

Revolutionising ocean forecasting project launches

A bold new project that will revolutionise New Zealand's ability to comprehensively ... Whakatohea Maori Trust Board, chair Robert Edwards says the ... View article...

Māori-Crown tertiary education advisory group positive step

“Our hope is that the new governance structure ensures direct lines of ... in education in New Zealand, and in honouring the relationship expressed in ... View article...

Singapore PM's wife turns heads with pro-LGBTI posts

Ho Ching, the wife of Singapore's Prime Minister, has turned heads in the conservative city-state this week by sharing pro-LGBTI posts on her ... View article...

LA to become largest US city to formally include LGBTI-owned businesses

Los Angeles is set to become the largest city in the US to formally include LGBTI-owned and operated businesses. The Californian city will be the ... View article...

Singapore Christian group face fresh criticism for online presence

The videos were widely condemned by LGBTI rights supporters in ... last year for presenting their services in a way many considered to be LGBTI. View article...

Extrajudicial executions in Chechnya

Frightened parents renounce their children while Chechen authorities persecute human rights advocates, LGBTI individuals and teenagers ... View article...

Cyprus bishop says it's hypocritical to mourn serial killer's child victims given country's abortion rate

Accept LGBTI Cyprus, an organization that says it fights against sexual discrimination in the country, shared the video online, calling his remarks “hate ... View article...

Denmark could soon allow trans teens to legally change gender

In 2018, the previous government set up a panel to discuss the issue as a part of its LGBTI equality plan. That panel has yet to reach a conclusion, ... View article...

Labor wants Australia to refuse visa for 'career bigot' Raheem Kassam

Kristina Keneally says former Breitbart editor should be banned from attending CPAC over offensive remarks about women, Muslims and LGBTI ... View article...

Counselling training offered

THE KZNPride is offering a great opportunity to develop one's skills on basic lay counselling and to provide support to LGBTI people in their ... View article...

When climate change interferes with ability 'to listen to the earth'

"In Australia, there's been very little recognition just how vulnerable Indigenous Australians are currently [to climate change] and have been over the ... View article...

Language is the key to success of future referendums

While it saw a “huge majority” of Australians vote yes, very little change actually occurred for Aboriginal Australians, and there were “unintended ... View article...

Ice binges in Aboriginal communities are being blamed on long delays to bury loved ones - as grief ...

An increase in ice binges in remote Aboriginal communities is being ... of ice in Australia, stating the delays impacted how the Indigenous community ... View article...

10 new political albums that will make you smile

From July 7 to 14, Australia held NAIDOC week, which seeks to increase awareness in the wider community of the status and treatment of Aboriginal ... View article...

Benefits boost to close indigenous schooling gap

Aboriginal parents with children at boarding school will be an average ... to increase the high school completion rates of indigenous Australians. View article...

It Accurately Portrays A Dark Period In Australian History

"It was of absolute importance to me," Kent says of finding an Aboriginal consultant to advise her on the film. "And when I couldn't initially, in very early ... View article...

High end fashion meets fine art with indigenous fabrics

The Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair Foundation Country to Couture fashion ... and design are now including in Australia's most prestigious art institutions, ... View article...

Treasury outlines new diversity strategy, encouraging staff to “be themselves”

To do this effectively and fairly, we must represent the modern Australian ... Meghan Quinn, is the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander champion; ... View article...

Meeting halted after iwi leader says city not ready for refugees

Immigration New Zealand organised the meeting on Monday, which was ... Whanganui iwi leader, Ken Mair, told the hui that issues confronting Māori in the ... Whanganui was selected as a new resettlement destination in February ... View article...

Statistics New Zealand calls in experts to advise all public servants on data ethics

Agencies of the New Zealand government will take advice on the ethical use ... The new data-ethics advisory body for NZ public servants was brought ... of the group from the Te Ao Māori Co-Design Group, an initiative of Stats NZ to ... View article...

Thousands flock to Auckland Maori protest

A week after a New Zealand property development company arrived with heavy machinery, an eviction notice and police to start a long-disputed ... View article...

Maori Australian revives in-your-face cultural identity

In his transition from the military life Kerehona started thinking about his Maori ancestry across the Tasman Sea in neighboring New Zealand, where ... View article...

Blow-up planetarium teaching Hawke's Bay primary schoolkids Māori astronomy

Blow-up planetarium teaching Hawke's Bay primary schoolkids Māori ... is a registered charitable trust based in Hawke's Bay, Aotearoa-New Zealand. View article...

Māori King set to visit protestors at Ihumātao

The Māori King is set to visit protestors at disputed South Auckland Ihumātao ... The Māori King's visit comes after a number of Government ministers ... View article...

Maori Australian revives in-your-face cultural identity

In his transition from the military life Kerehona started thinking about his Maori ancestry across the Tasman Sea in neighboring New Zealand, where ... View article...

Gordon Ramsay shoots goat, cooks and eats it on new TV show. Internet destroys him

Uncharted kicked off in Peru after which Ramsay travelled to New Zealand's rugged South Island, where he "discovered the secrets of Maori cuisine", ... View article...

Yes, I'm bisexual – and this concerns you how?

To do this, we are asking for your help to build the future LGBTI community. Making a one-off or regular donation is one of the best ways that you can ... View article...

'Terrifying': adopted kids removed from their gay dads in Russia

'The only thing LGBTI people can do to be completely safe is to stay invisible, hide their SOGIE (sexual orientation and gender identity), lie in their ... View article...

Gay Guatemala congressman-elect sharply criticizes migrant agreement with US

He said it is important for LGBTI Guatemalans to be represented in their country's congress. Dávila also told the Blade he plans to promote a ... View article...

Website Gay Star News to close leaving 20 staff unemployed

The closure of Gay Star News is the latest in a long list of LGBTI publishers going out of business or facing challenges. Australian websites samesame ... View article...

LGBTI rights activists lobby Canberra politicians on religious freedom

“Remove existing exemptions allowing anti-LGBTI discrimination, don't allow legal privileges for discrimination and hate speech in the name of ... View article...

Japan Elects First-Ever Openly LGBTI Person Into Parliament

This is not the first time Ishikawa has made history in Japan, with the LGBTI rights advocate previously becoming the first openly gay person to run for ... View article...

Group ranks best and worst countries in Europe for LGBTI rights

Azerbaijan, Turkey and Armenia are the worst countries in Europe for LGBTI rights, according to a new assessment from the International Lesbian, ... View article...

LGBTI community building in a conservative/homophobic rural town

I am really keen to hear from people about successful strategies for lgbti community building in a conservative rural town. Really keen to hear about ... View article...

The problem with Australia's sperm bank

So she turned to Australia's sperm bank and was surprised with what she found. Lots of American semen, no Aboriginal donors and a system that felt ... View article...

SA to reel in growth through new seafood industry forum

... recreational, charter, aquaculture, Aboriginal traditional, and processing ... “The forum will focus on opportunities to grow South Australia's seafood ... View article...

Our national broadcaster keeps helping Marcia Langton spread her smears

The university made her a Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor, as well as its Foundation Chair of Australian Indigenous Studies. Here, we're ... View article...

Meet the young indigenous activist decolonising environmentalism to save the planet

Through his advocacy Jamie is now asking Australia to listen to Indigenous people in order to survive the environmental and spiritual despair the ... View article...

Naomi Williams inquest: coroner finds bias in way hospital treated Aboriginal woman

Today we heard from the coroner acknowledging that Aboriginal people do not ... She also recommended greater employment of Indigenous people as ... Guardian Australia will hold the new Coalition government to account and ... View article...

Cottage a base for contrasting lifestyles

National Trust of Australia (Victoria) CEO Simon Ambrose, said the ... between a colonial settler family and local Indigenous communities during life in ... View article...

Australia's largest Indigenous organisation forced to shut up shop

The National Congress of Australia's First Peoples has officially closed its doors after the peak representative body went into voluntary administration ... View article...

Traditional owners direct Indigenous housing projects

In the Groote Eylandt part of East Arnhem Land, and in an Australian-first project where traditional owners rather than a government agency have ... View article...

A call for justice on NZ's 'taken generation'

With the Ihumātao occupation dominating headlines, a march on Parliament calling for an end to the state's "theft" of Māori children has slipped under ... View article...

Minister defends Oranga Tamariki as protest organisers explain push behind today's hikoi

The organisers of a nationwide hikoi today against the uplift of Māori .... A New Zealand tattoo artist who took explicit photos of his client's thigh tattoo ... View article...

Jehan Casinader is taking his turn as Breakfast host very seriously

There was a lesson in TVNZ's ownership from Casinader ("We're commercially funded... as you well know,") and a lesson in Maori land ownership ... View article...

Efficacy of funded drugs for diabetes patients under the spotlight

A local study is needed because such overseas data doesn't adequately account for Māori and Pacific people's genetic disposition, or non-disposition, ... View article...

Stratford looking for new Juliet and her Romeo in English and in Māori

"You don't have to be fluent in te reo Māori, but being able to read and speak it well is beneficial," says Kate, who adds people can audition for just one ... View article...

Infant immunisation rate in wider Manawatū continue to drop

"It is also especially pleasing to see the rate of Māori children who have been immunised by the five-year milestone is comparable to that of the ... View article...

New Zealand's indigenous Maori protest over 'stolen children'

Thousands of Maori people protested across New Zealand on Tuesday calling for an end to the practice of taking at-risk ... View article...

NZ's Maori protest over 'stolen children'

Thousands of Maori people have protested across New Zealand calling for an end to the practice of taking at-risk children away from their families, ... View article...

Parents groups protest after school allows boys to wear skirts

People often refer to Taiwan as the best place to be LGBTI in Asia. ... Education Act which teaches LGBTI anti-discrimination and LGBTI sex education. View article...

'SA's LGBTI community can't only live our lives in obituaries'

Since 2006 Zanele Muholi has made their name on a long-running series of portraits of black LGBTI South Africans titled Faces and Phases, which ... View article...

LGBTI community groups have released a... - The Equality Project

LGBTI community groups have released a mental health resource ahead of the upcoming religious discrimination debate. The self care guide ... View article...

'Bearded lady' Harnaam Kaur: 'I don't give a sh*t about gender stereotypes'

'I do get messages from people in the LGBTI community about how my work has helped them come to terms with who they are and the way their ... View article...

LGBTI Muslim charity calls out woman in burqa shouting homophobic abuse

Call out homophobia, but we also need the LGBTI community to stand up to racism and Islamophobia, writes non-binary Muslim Faizan ... View article...

Transgender activists in Thailand propose law to protect their rights

Well-known singer and LGBTI icon Jern Jern Boonsoongnern backed the ... But, activists have slammed a civil unions bill as failing to give LGBTI ... View article...

A thousand rainbows will shake the sky: the left and gay liberation

LGBTI people took note, adopting a similarly aggressive strategy oriented to the streets and willing to be disruptive in pursuit of, not just acceptance, ... View article...

LGBTI people in Nepal demand to be counted

LGBTI rights advocates in Nepal have encouraged the government to conduct a census of the LGBTI community. According to local LGBTI publication ... View article...

Our national broadcaster keeps helping Marcia Langton spread her smears

The university made her a Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor, as well as its Foundation Chair of Australian Indigenous Studies. Here, we're ... View article...

Poverty at core of this inequity Nick Cater

Infant mortality is 2.4 times higher than those of other Australians. Life expectancy for an indigenous male is on a par with that of men in Nicaragua but ... View article...

AusIMM pledges commitment to Indigenous women in mining

... women in the sector by signing a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Indigenous Women in Mining and Resources Australia (IWIMRA). View article...

Court Documents Reveal Racist Comments by Australian Judge

Children of the Australian Aboriginal community of Ramingining play in East Arnhem Land, located east of the Northern Territory city of Darwin.

Biggest native title deal in danger of dissident defeat

The biggest land rights deal in Australian history is in danger of being killed off, ... the $1.3 billion land-and-cash package to benefit 30,000 Aboriginal people. ... Represented pro bono by one of Australia's most respected native title ... View article...

Recognising ancient culture sees land added to Murujuga National Park

Western Australia Premier Mark McGowan advise: "The inclusion of this ... "The Centre is a watershed project which is going to showcase Aboriginal ... View article...

Uluru climbing ban shows how fragile some of us really are

Our aboriginal brothers and sisters will never be pleased.” “Just wait till the tourist dollars that support the local Aboriginal communities drys up — suddenly ... the true level of pain and dispossession that White Australia was feeling. View article...

Six Kaurna old people to return to Country in South Australia

“The return of ancestors to their traditional custodians is profoundly significant for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people,” Minister Fletcher said. View article...

'Racism' behind why Govt won't buy Ihumātao land

The Māori Party president is accusing the Government of double standards when it comes to resolving Māori issues. The land dispute at Ihumātao is ... View article...

A young Aucklander walking the climate action talk

We had such great wisdom and knowledge about the environment from a Te Ao Māori perspective shared with us by Māori leaders who attended the ... View article...

Māori health inequities need new tools

The Health Quality & Safety Commission is challenging the health sector to understand and address inequities in how Māori access and receive ... View article...

JustSpeak statement of support for Hands off our Tamariki

... Aotearoa seeking to change the conversation on criminal justice in New Zealand. ... This issue disproportionately impacts Māori children and whānau. ... When a Māori mother is identified as high risk by Oranga Tamariki, it is not ... View article...

Thousands of Maori protesters halt building plans on scared land

Thousands of people have protested in New Zealand this weekend against plans by the country's largest builder to develop homes on land seen as ... View article...

Oranga Tamariki 'our job to fix', Winston Peters says ahead of Parliament protest

Peters' comments come just a day before a group of Māori lawyers, midwives, social workers and academics called Hands Off Our Tamariki plan to ... View article...

National rises against Labour, with 45 against 43 in 1 News Colmar Brunton poll

New Zealand First had dropped below the 5 per cent threshold to 3 per cent, while the Māori Party, Act and New Conservatives were all on 1 per cent. View article...

'Cultural renaissance in Māoridom' needed, says Winston Peters ahead of Oranga Tamariki protests

... today come as protests are set to take place across New Zealand tomorrow over Oranga Tamariki's removal of Māori tamariki and mokopuna. View article...

This is how WWE's CEO reacted to wrestler Darren Young coming out as gay

The now-retired gay wrestler also revealed he was 'devastated' after stopping his wrestling career in 2017 and then seeing LGBTI storylines that he ... View article...

UK government put 'extreme pressure' on school to halt LGBTI-inclusivity lessons

The UK government allegedly placed school officials under 'extreme pressure' to halt LGBTI-inclusivity lessons due to protests against the classes. View article...