Former Justice Minister Judith Collins has told TVNZ bosses she wants its news bulletins to take women more seriously.

Nicole Kidman is facing questions about her commitment to women's rights, after endorsing an airline accused over the alleged mistreatment of its female staff.

Pressure is mounting for the abolition of a law allowing Queenslanders who kill homosexuals to have a murder charge reduced by arguing that their victim propositioned them.

Kylie Jenner has come under fire for pictures she has posted to her Instagram account which people are claiming show her with “blackface”.

The country's top cop says he is pleased to see Kiwis standing up against racism after members of the public helped to identify a man who verbally attacked two foreign men on a bus.

The images aim to demystify and destigmatise the female body - to make viewers "realise these are just regular, normal processes," nothing to reject or shame

The Asia New Zealand Foundation has been surveying New Zealanders about their attitudes towards Asia for nearly two decades, capturing an evolving picture of our responses to demographic and economic....

We're led to believe it takes courage for sports stars to take a stand. It doesn't always.

The broadcaster Alison Mau wrote a piece at the weekend about what she called "The curse of casual sexism".

America's top law enforcement official has delivered a scathing denunciation of the police department in Ferguson, the St Louis suburb at the centre of violent race protests last year, as a....

Fighting began in the key central Iraqi city of Tikrit, birthplace of the former dictator Saddam Hussein, as government forces and Shia militia launched a major assault to displace Isis jihadists.

A director of an international human rights organisation has admitted he was involved in preventing a black French man from entering a Paris underground train amid racist chanting by Chelsea football fans.

A video of a woman who appears to tell a passenger that his ancestors "used to be slaves" during an argument on the London Underground is being investigated by police.

Society still expects women to behave like women and men to behave like men, and accept the benefits and disadvantages our genders are entitled to, writes Heather du Plessis-Allan.

"I am a Muslim. I am labelled as a terrorist. I trust you. Do you trust me? Give me a hug." And with that, Mustafa Mawla waited for someone to hug him.

When Benedict Cumberbatch put his foot in it, he copped abuse. He’s not alone in falling into the language trap.

Some readers were less concerned about the impact of Quitline’s crayon ad on children and more worried about the race-based stereotypes it was propagating.

Saudi officials deny they blurred out US First Lady Michelle Obama, but her decision not to wear a headscarf, and don blue, not black at the late King's funeral, is controversial.

In New Zealand, there used to be a widely held view that sport had nothing to do with politics. This was not only naive but also wrong, writes Dame Susan Devoy.

A YouGov survey in England found nearly half of the population agreed with one of four anti-Semitic statements.

When it comes to home-grown anti-Semitism, France leads the world, writes Stephen Pollard.

So far we've identified the achievements of the Treaty settlement and reconciliation process, and flagged that the process is now being pushed beyond the point of being useful.

Lesbians earn significantly more than their heterosexual colleagues while gay men earn less, according to a World Bank study.

She's the first female driver in Formula One for 20 years - and the sexism she's encountered just doesn't seem to stop.

As the Sydney siege threatens to open up old prejudices, hashtag #illridewithyou has led a call for unity.

In a strong display of unity after the shooting of an unarmed black teenager in Ferguson, Missouri, the relatives of African Americans killed by officers in similar incidents dating back more than a....

The number of women in senior leadership roles in the public service has inched up but female leaders are still being paid 8 per cent less than their male colleagues.

Demonstrations broke out in New York City yesterday after a grand jury declined to charge a white police officer in the choking death of a black man.