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Human rights: Human rights: the background
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Human rights for gangs
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Brutal seas: meet the men enslaved to catch our fish - Pt 3
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World Human Rights Day
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Human friendship
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Making disability rights real
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Disability Rights in Aotearoa New Zealand - 2010 Convention Coalition Report
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The most peaceful nation?
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2017 Women's March
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Letter from Tom T K Poata to Trevor Richards
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Human Rights Tribunal rules Fairfax cartoons 'not unlawful'
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Civil rights advocates: protection orders breach human rights
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First human trafficking conviction in NZ
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Human Rights Commission launches racism campaign
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Torture in New Zealand prisons : a briefing / editor: Ti Lamusse.
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Te Whakapuakitanga o te Ao mō ngā Tika Tangata
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Debating human rights
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Philosophy of human rights
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World report 2018
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8 great heroes of human rights
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Why Saudi Arabia is about to judge NZ's human rights record
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International human rights legislation
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The case against human rights
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Human rights in 2066
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What are the universal human rights?
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Three fundamental freedoms
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Human rights data
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Know your rights
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The Human Rights Commission
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Rights are human rights' placard
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China’s special medal for Robert Mugabe
China was heavily criticised for human rights abuses during the preparation of the 2008 Olympic Games. The spotlight was on China until Robert Mugabe came under fire from Human Rights Watch for a campaign of violence and political turmoil during the 2008 elections in Zimbabwe. In this cartoon, Premier Wen Jiabao of China appears grateful for this shift in focus and indicates he would like to strike a special medal for Mugabe.
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Human rights issues in Sri Lanka
New Zealand Prime Minister John Key does the balancing act on his way to Sri Lanka for the most controversial Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in 2013. India and Canada boycotted the meeting citing human rights abuse by the host nation. While climate change was to be the focus of the meeting, many heads of state and Human Rights groups expected John Key to approach the topic of human rights violations with the Sri Lankan President Rajapaksa. The Sri Lanka government was accused of not ensuring justice for victims of human rights violations during the 26-year long civil conflict between the government and the LTTE (a Tamil militant group).
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Women’s salaries
An indignant woman raises the unfairness of the gender pay gap with the Otago Education Board in 1895. Women teachers were to take home £200 less than men. In 1967 the United Nations adopted the Declaration on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women. In 1972 New Zealand passed the Equal Pay Act requiring men and women doing the same work to be paid the same. In 2018 Stats NZ stated that while the gap has closed over the past 20 years, on average women are still paid around 9% less for an hour’s work than men.
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Torture at Guantanamo Bay prison
Guantanamo Bay, a US prison for militants and suspected terrorists captured by the United States received worldwide condemnation from human rights organisations for various forms of torture, one of which was waterboarding. In 1987, the United Nations adopted the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment. American President Barack Obama promised to close the prison when he came to power. In this cartoon, he is seen taking the waterboard away. His act of deprivation is seen as being inhuman and cruel to the prison guards who have used it for torture.
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Concern over rights of Kiwi children
The Convention on the Rights of the Child was adopted by the United Nations in 1989 and by New Zealand in 1993. It includes civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, and sets out in detail what every child needs to have a safe, happy and fulfilled childhood. In 2011 New Zealand representatives met with the UN to report on what was being done for children in New Zealand. While the UN was satisfied with the overall wellbeing of children and their rights, there were concerns that there was no ministry responsible for issues related to children, high child and infant mortality rates and the fact that 20% of children in New Zealand lived in poverty.
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Improving facilities for the disabled
The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities was adopted by the United Nations on December 2006 and ratified by New Zealand in September 2008. This human right makes disability discrimination unlawful and promotes equal rights, equal opportunity and equal access for people with disabilities. This tongue in cheek image mocks the government’s efforts to improve facilities for the disabled in New Zealand. In 2016 the Government revised the New Zealand Disability Strategy to better support disabled people to improve their lives and achieve their potential. A milestone in this area was the New Zealand Sign Language (NZSL) Act in 2006, making NZSL an official language of New Zealand.
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Syria – human rites
This image is about human rights violations in Syria since the pro-democracy protests in 2011. In the ensuing civil war, detention, torture, enforced disappearance, evacuations, killings and chemical weapons attacks were widespread. Thousands of civilians were at the receiving end of attacks and bombings by Syrian government forces and allies. The United Nations reported millions of Syrians became refugees. In 2016 the UN General Assembly began investigations into criminal proceedings against President Bashar al-Assad and his government for war crimes.
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All Black – Māori protest racial discrimination
At one stage Apartheid was so predominant in South Africa that it was compulsory for visiting sports teams to be all-white only. Amidst protests, New Zealand did send a rugby team to South Africa in 1948 without Māori players. However, protests grew in volume when the Rugby Football Union proposed to send another all-white team to South Africa in 1960. This poster was put up by the New Zealand Citizen’s All Black Tour Association asking people to sign a huge petition calling for the tour to be abandoned for its racial discrimination. Even though the petition gathered 153,000 signatures, an all-white All Black team was again sent to South Africa.
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Human Rights Explained
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A short history of human rights
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Universal Declaration of Human Rights
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NZ's human rights record
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A collection of posters on human rights issues
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The fight to vote School Journal curriculum level 4: May: 2017
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Human Rights in secondary school
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Human rights heroes
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Gisborne iwi on British 'collisions'
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1893 anti-suffrage cartoon (CC0013)
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Seven days: South Africa – the black future
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Nelson Mandela
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Human Rights, children's rights, and democracy
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Child poverty monitor
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30 Articles of human rights
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