The Human Rights Foundation promotes and defends human rights in Aotearoa New Zealand and abroad, through research-based education and advocacy.
We are very proud that one of our founders, Professor Margaret Bedggood, was made a Companion of the NZ Order of Merit in the New Year Honours for services to human rights law. Still on our management committee, Margaret was our first chairperson (2001 – 2008) and before that was chief commissioner of the Human
Some lessons are learned too late. For refugee Hamid Khazaei, who died of sepsis contracted on Manus Island, belated reforms can no longer help. Reflecting on his death, the Queensland State Coroner earlier this year could not have been clearer in his findings. That bureaucrats and politicians should never be allowed to override a clinical
Associate Professor Toeolesulusulu Damon Salesa is the University of Auckland’s first Pro Vice Chancellor Pacific. Of Samoan-Pālagi descent, Salesa has become a leading author and historian of Pacific studies and race relations. He is also the first person of Pacific Island descent to become a Rhodes scholar at Oxford University. In an interview with Newsroom, Salesa
VENUE: ST COLUMBA CENTRE 40 VERMONT ST, PONSONBY AUCKLAND AT 6.00PM (with drinks/nibbles from 5:30pm)
Highly secret documentation which the NZ Defence Force says can’t be released publicly in an inquiry into a NZSAS raid is available on a Nato website, says journalist Nicky Hager. Hager, who co-write the book which led to the inquiry, said evidence of the sort needed to ensure public confidence had been disclosed in comparative
The Defence Force claims journalists Nicky Hager and Jon Stephenson made 105 errors in their book Hit & Run – including reports of the death of a Taliban leader who is still alive and the destruction of a building which hadn’t been built at the time of the controversial NZ Special Air Service raid. In a newly
The country’s highest court has ruled that the High Court was acting within its powers when it declared legislation banning prisoner voting is a breach of New Zealand’s human rights laws. The Supreme Court ruled courts have the power to make a statement of declaration when laws are inconsistent with the bill of rights. It follows
Come and hear newly appointed EEO Commissioner at the Human Rights Commission Saunoamaali’i Dr Karanina Sumeo at our AGM on 28 November 2018 at 6pm – drinks and nibbles at 5:30! ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS FOUNDATION OF AOTEAROA NEW ZEALAND WHEN: 6:00pm on Wednesday 28 November 2018 (with drinks/nibbles from 5:30pm) WHERE: St Columba Centre, 40
Denying New Zealand’s prisoners the right to vote is inconsistent with the Bill of Rights, the country’s highest court has ruled. The Supreme Court released its judgment today upholding an earlier High Court decision saying the courts had jurisdiction to make a “declaration of inconsistency”. A majority of the five Supreme Court judges, comprising Chief
Video footage shows notorious prison ‘bush lawyer’ Arthur Taylor being forcibly taken while unconscious from Auckland to Waikeria Prison – but maltreatment is strongly denied by Corrections. Arthur Taylor, his lawyer Sue Earl, Otago University former Dean of Law Mark Henaghan, and advocate Hazel Heal want Corrections to release the footage to the public. Henaghan and Heal
