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Fiji's spokesman at the United Nation Human Rights Council in Geneva promises this week's key meeting on Fiji will mark the start of an improved society for the people of...

The possibility of a land tax has real difficulties and people should not assume the Government will implement one, says Prime Minister John Key. Audio

Poet J. C. Sturm, former wife of James K. Baxter, died in Wellington on Wednesday. She was 82.

The Council of Trade Unions is warning a gap in the wages between Maori and non-Maori is widening.

More details are said to be needed on how Fiji's new Domestic Violence Decree will be put into practice. The Creative Director of Women's Action for Change, Peni Moore, says...

A major one-day jobs summit has produced a list of 20 ideas, one of which would see workplaces operating nine-day fortnights as a way of saving jobs. Audio

The Equality and Human Rights Commission threatened on Friday to take legal action against more than 100 councils in Britain for failing to provide specialised services for women who are victims of…

For Americans burdened by a sense of history, something once unthinkable has happened. The United States has elected a black president.

A report by the OECD says poverty in New Zealand almost doubled between the mid-1980s and 2005.

A researcher at the University of Canterbury has found mortality rates have remained high in areas where there is significant social inequality.

The director of the Samoa AIDS Foundation says political and church leaders have to start talking openly about men who have sex with men, and sex workers, in order to...

A northern employers' group is taking on the Government over a proposed law change to KiwiSaver, which would enable personal grievance claims.

The ruling coalition in Solomon Islands has acknowledged that corruption exist within government systems, with the prime minister warning that increasing disparity is a risk to stability. The Prime…

New Caledonia's mainly Kanak USTKE union has launched a political group called the Workers Party. The weekend move was expected as it had been announced weeks ago. The inaugural congress...

New Caledonia' mainly Kanak USTKE union will officially launch a political party this weekend. The union's leader, Gerard Jodar, says there is a need for the workers' voice to be...

A workshop is taking place in Solomon Islands to address the needs of women, youth and children. The newly formed Ministry of Women, Youth and Children is hoping to draw...

The Commonwealth Parliamentary Association has called on the Tongan government to ratify an agreement aimed at addressing gender inequality. This week Tonga hosted its first ever CPA workshop on…

The New Zealand Associate Minister of Foreign Affairs, Marian Hobbs, says HIV/Aids, could become the next major security threat in the Pacific. Ms Hobbs told the "Securing a Peaceful Pacific"...

New Caledonia's Human Rights League is organising a forum this weekend to discuss the social inequality affecting the territory. The League's president, Elie Poigoune, says the gap is widening…

A regional meeting in Fiji has been told that political corruption, abuse of office and power, including power struggles, are rife throughout the Pacific. The Fiji Sun reports that this...