Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

There's an event at parliament this evening to mark the centenary of an institution that played a major part in Māori fortunes last century. Forestry ... View article...

The Māori electorates will have on average 67,582 people. ... The Census estimated Māori now make up 16.5 percent of New Zealand's population, ... View article...

Board chairman Anselm Haanen said he was pleased to continue supporting the correction of original Māori names to be consistent with the existing ... View article...

About a third of Māori and Pacific Islanders carry a gene variant that's just been linked to taller height. A national team of scientists today revealed their ... View article...

Rachel House. The notion that the next generation of New Zealanders will be taught Māori culture and history via a compulsory school curriculum fills ... View article...

As part of a generation that grew up with scant knowledge of Māori stories, of the land wars or even the coarser, let alone the finer details of the Treaty, ... View article...

Maori and Pasifika attendance at Te Papa is low; despite making up 24 percent of New Zealand's total population, they represent only 11 percent of ... View article...

It is found in approximately 30 percent of people of Maori and Pacific ... Dr Murphy said that because it was so specific to Maori and Pacific peoples, ... View article...

However, the present study is the first to focus on LGBTI-related health in a major German metropolis. It aimed to investigate health care structures, ... View article...

LGBTI equality advocates have welcomed a unanimous motion condemning the Federal Government's Religious Discrimination Bill and protecting the ... View article...

Colours Cayman is calling on the government to include sexual orientation and gender identity in its proposed anti-bullying legislation. The LGBTI ... View article...

Additionally, a group of civil society organisations that advocate for LGBTI rights are calling on all heads of state, political and health leaders to ... View article...

We believe universal health coverage is unattainable unless LGBTI people everywhere can access quality, affordable, evidence-based, ... View article...

Nepal provides legislative protection in its constitution for women and the LGBTI. But the challenge is materialising the rights on all forefronts of society ... View article...

Born and raised in a favela in Rio, Brazil, Franco became an elected councillor, who worked tirelessly to promote the rights of black women, LGBTI ... View article...

European Pride organisations have selected Belgrade Pride to be the host of EuroPride 2022. „EuroPride will have a huge impact fot LGBTI ... View article...

In Australia, Aboriginal groups are pushing back against public access to heritage sites like mountains and beaches, in an attempt to preserve areas of ... View article...

Study abroad experiences led seven students to Melbourne, Australia, to examine the aboriginal culture, history and experiences of the Wurundjeri ... View article...

“We watch what is in fashion and create Aboriginal artwork in a contemporary context, to show that even though we are part of the oldest culture on ... View article...

For Khan, who is keen to grow her business to employ other Aboriginal ... In Northern and Western Australia, Cara Peek is leading the program ... View article...

It wants to see a national suicide prevention plan for Aboriginal and Torres Strait ... One-in-five Australia will experience a mental illness each year. View article...

The West Australian government's bid to bring down the high number of children in care, over half of whom are Aboriginal, is being hampered by a 35 ... View article...

Senators will hear from groups such as Danila Dilba Health Service, Aboriginal Medical Services Alliance of the NT, North Australian Aboriginal ... View article...

The activities took place across Australia except for South Australia and ... In 2008, Mr Palmer pledged to donate $100 million for Aboriginal health and ... View article...

That was the call from Māori coming out of this year's Dapaanz Cutting Edge conference for people working in addiction treatment. New Zealand Drug ... View article...

New Zealand will gain one new North Island electorate at the 2020 election ... No new Maori electorates or South Island electorates are needed. View article...

A ground-breaking study which looks at how Māori and Samoan peoples ... In New Zealand, the project team is working collaboratively with: the ... View article...

Lessons are provided in English and te reo Māori and include co-governance and council's relationship with Māori; protests, submissions and how to ... View article...

In New Zealand, Māori, Pasifika and Indian families are more likely to lose a ... Bereaved parents get new info site but support remains inconsistent View article...

A big question facing New Zealand is people with low-level marijuana ... "We do have too many Māori locked up in prisons for bullshit offences ... View article...

A report by the Perinatal and Maternal Mortality Review Committee revealed for every thousand babies born, just under a percent were stillborn. View article...

She became known for her images of Maori, which were published in the Department of Maori Affairs magazine Te Ao Hou and in school publications ... View article...

“LGBT youth attempt suicide at rates three times higher than their heterosexual peers and we couldn't be more thankful that Curran has stepped up to ... View article...

The number of LGBT people recruited as foster carers is not being routinely recorded, making it hard to track progress, a charity has said. View article...

Cases of members of the LGBT community being persecuted have been ... Studies in Depok, which offered a counseling service for LGBT people. View article...

In November 2017, a ban was introduced on all public events focusing on LGBT rights. In Ankara, a film festival was banned by the governor's office, ... View article...

Study abroad experiences led seven students to Melbourne, Australia, to examine the aboriginal culture, history and experiences of the Wurundjeri ... View article...

Mothers of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander children have formed their own culturally safe space in regional South Australia to support each other's ... View article...

Pentecostal Christians Are Burning Australia's Sacred Aboriginal Objects ... 100km south-east of Fitzroy Crossing in Western Australia's Kimberley, ... View article...

A group of Christian missionaries who believe traditional Aboriginal culture is the ... as worshiping the devil is burning sacred objects in the Australian Outback. ... The anti-Aboriginal group, made up of born-again Christians who are ... View article...

Two children of Asian descent have reportedly been denied a measles vaccination in Auckland - because they're not Maori or Pasifika. National Party ... View article...

Māori Language Week ought to change into Māori Language Month, ... From the West Midlands to NZ: One Englishman's try and study te reo Māori. View article...

Lee said the children's mother had offered to pay for the vaccinations but told her the doctor declined to provide them because Māori and Pasifika ... View article...

We know that in Australia, Aboriginal people have renamed Australia Day "Invasion Day." Is there a movement of that nature in New Zealand as well? View article...

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The lawsuit was filed last week in federal court in Maryland by LGBT activist groups Lambda Legal and Immigration Equality. But health officials ... View article...

The decision also flies in the face of all the recent pro-LGBT announcements made by the minister of tourism and others about the Second City being ... View article...

Tram Anh said he wants to raise awareness about the LGBT community in Vietnam through his performance art, but living life on his terms in a country ... View article...

16 that the city of Phoenix can't use a criminal law to compel two artists to produce custom wedding invitations for LGBT couples because that would ... View article...

Hla Myat Tun, deputy director of the LGBT organization Colors Rainbow, said the environment for LGBT people in Myanmar is “getting better as far as ... View article...

The Mormon church has doubled down on its stance that marriage is “between a man and a woman”, despite adjusting one of its anti-LGBT+ policies. View article...

Bono said: “Street artists have been raising the alarm in the fight against Aids since HIV appeared — from the streets of New York in the 1980s. View article...

The Victoria Police LGBTI Reference Group recently celebrated the 20th anniversary of its founding in 1999 to improve community relations» View article...

A good example of inclusive grant funding is New Zealand's Vision ... with the traditional knowledge of the Maori, New Zealand's Indigenous people. View article...

Senator Dodson points to a study that found mainstream reporting of indigenous Australia was increasingly focused on violence, conflict and ... View article...

The management of Australians through welfare is nothing new. Today's cashless card is merely the result of what was already tested on our ... View article...

There's been a lot of talk about the need for National Aboriginal Theatre, Carissa Lee ... Australia has seen many First Nations theatre companies. View article...

Australia has seen many First Nations theatre companies. ... Yirra Yaakin found fame in 2012 through being the first Aboriginal company to translate ... View article...

Aboriginal Affairs Minister Ben Wyatt today presented a Lotterywest cheque of $999,200 to Glass Jar Australia to continue and expand their successful ... View article...

The painting memorializes a chilling episode from 1920 colonial Australia in which two Aboriginal men were poisoned, clubbed and then burned. View article...

The rate of unintentional drug-induced deaths is higher also among indigenous people. Aboriginal Australians were three times as likely to die from ... View article...

Aspects of New Zealand's history to be covered could include the arrival of Māori to Aotearoa, first encounters and early colonial history, the Treaty of ... View article...

But the village of Mangonui in the north island has banned the vessel from docking after protests from the local Maori community, reports Stuff NZ. View article...

Rediscovering your wairua and investing in Māori models of care is an effective way of improving health outcomes for Māori, say drug and addiction ... View article...

The effects are far worse than alcohol and they're seeing patients in their mid-30s and 40s - especially Māori males from low socio-economic areas. View article...

Kupe has long been written off as a story, a Māori 'legend', and the seafaring feats of the first people of New Zealand were labelled an accident. View article...

Rediscovering your wairua and investing in Māori models of care is an ... (Drug and Alcohol Practitioners' Association Aotearoa–New Zealand). View article...

Half of Māori and Pasifika deaths potentially avoidable, study finds ... effect, said Fisher, who chairs a New Zealand heart failure working group for the ... View article...

... A new web series challenges the false idea that rangatahi Māori “aren't ... to avoid carbon emissions, to Amnesty International New Zealand recognising ... Pacific people, Māori, disabled people, those in poverty and members of ... View article...

Through his artwork, he aims to break down stereotypes and raise awareness of important human rights issues such as bullying in the LGBTI ... View article...

Russia's LGBTI activists and human rights defenders in Chechnya are among the most targeted, with numerous vicious attacks recorded in recent ... View article...

Tasmanian LGBTI equality advocates have welcomed the motion calling for the state Upper House to oppose the proposed federal override of that ... View article...

Woolworths Group was recognised for continued focus on LGBTI inclusion, refugee employment programs, and the launch of the company's second ... View article...

... male, heterosexual Christians' continue to be the norm while women, minorities, LGBTI and Roma' are far less able to count on European values. View article...

... that explicitly criminalises marital rape; 40 have legislation against sexual harassment; and 9 have legislation that offers broad protections for LGBTI ... View article...

How regular visits from someone who 'gets it' can help to older LGBTI people feel accepted, less isolated and safe in their environment. View article...

Ramos said Bolsonaro had a list of the names of LGBTI activists that “he thought were against family and pro-destruction of Brazil” on his office door ... View article...

In 2018, 221 in 100,000 Australians were incarcerated, an increase of 130 percent over the 1985 rate. The incarceration rate for Aboriginal people is ... View article...

The crisis of Aboriginal children in out of home care in Australia is often referred to as another Stolen Generation. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ... View article...

'Australia has a dark history in terms of how they've treated Aboriginal people and how they continue to treat them,' said Yhonnie Scarce, the ... View article...

Aim Children in statutory out‐of‐home care (OOHC) are known to have poorer physical, developmental and mental health outcomes compared with ... View article...

To date, more than 200 Australian Aborigines have learned to read and write using the prestigious Cuban literacy ... View article...

... massive labyrinth caves, representing some of the earliest evidence of Aboriginal occupation of Australia, dating to approximately 50,000 years ago. View article...

“Bob Hawke was one of the greatest Australians in history – establishing a scholarship in his name, for aspiring Aboriginal teachers is a fitting tribute. View article...

An Aboriginal woman has died after being shot by police in Geraldton, about 400km north of Perth in Western Australia. The 29-year-old was shot at a ... View article...

The ministry's figures showed of Māori school-leavers 20.3 percent last year had no qualification, compared with 8.7 per cent of Pākehā school leavers ... View article...

Dr Waikaremoana Waitoki has an aspiration that could shake up psychology in Aotearoa. It's a standalone tertiary institute where Māori can study ... View article...

The Māori King says mana whenua have reached a unified position on the future of Ihumātao and want the land back. In a statement, Kiingi Tuuheitia ... View article...

... relating to care and protection issues for tamariki Māori aged 0-3 months. ... 12-14 whanau across New Zealand about what worked and what didn't ... View article...

From waka ama to CrossFit — sporting success will be celebrated at the Tairawhiti Maori Sports Awards this weekend. The judging panel have ... View article...

Prestige, power and pūtea. That's what comes with a seat on Auckland's Independent Māori Statutory Board, but there seem to be few takers. View article...

Air New Zealand backed down on plans to trademark a logo of the Maori greeting "kia ora" Wednesday after indigenous groups accused it of cultural ... View article...

And, whether promoting Māori culture, helping farmers secure some tourist ... “There's been talk of the New Zealand tourism industry slowing down,” ... View article...

A series of storms has caused significant water damage to a shelter for LGBTI migrants in the Mexican city of Ciudad Juárez. A video the Washington ... View article...

These realities are enabled by religious discourses that deny LGBTI people, casting them out as deviants, sinners and lesser humans. By labelling ... View article...

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has sparked further outrage among LGBTI activists in his country with his decision to suspend public funding of ... View article...

A majority of British people (60 per cent) believe it's right to teach primary school pupils about different kinds of families, including same-sex parenting. View article...

National governments within the EU's borders are chipping away at women's rights, LGBTI rights, freedom of the press and the independence of the ... View article...

Leandro Rodríguez García, director of the Cuban Foundation for LGBTI Rights, an independent advocacy group, told the Washington Blade in a series ... View article...