A US teenager has accused Instagram of size discrimination after it suspended her account because a relatively chaste series of underwear selfies “violated community guidelines”.

A woman who was ordered to leave an Auckland swimming pool complex at the weekend says she will complain to the Race Relations Commissioner.

Amid the swirl of opinion around the Anglican General Synod's decision to commit to finding a way to bless gay couples.

A woman undergoing chemotherapy says she felt humiliated after being turned away from a Hamilton casino because she didn't have a doctor's note saying she needed to wear a hat.

The European Court of Human Rights has upheld France's ban on wearing a burqa or a niqab in public.

As actor Gary Oldman discovered to his chagrin this week, political correctness has a way of transforming verbal hand grenades into verbal boomerangs, writes Paul Thomas.

Amid bad news from Iraq, we must remember most of Islam's faithful are ordinary people living ordinary lives.

New Zealand women are earning thousands of dollars less than their male counterparts just five years after graduation, a report reveals.

NBA basketball owner Donald Sterling's viciously racist comments in the US remind again how lucky we are in NZ to have a comparatively settled racial landscape, writes Paul Lewis.

Three in four NBA players are black. Almost half its teams' head coaches are African American. And yet of all the NBA's team owners and owners of big league baseball and football teams, only Michael Jordan is African-American.

An Auckland Council survey that asked residents to rate their feelings towards Asians has been scrapped after widespread condemnation.

The other morning I was grabbing a coffee before work and read Bob McCroskie's opinion piece, and that was the start of a ruined day, writes Tom Hamilton.

Women earn less than men because they are seen as pushovers when they don't negotiate hard and are seen as "ball-breakers" when they do, a psychologist says.

After 2,000 years of persecution, India's two million eunuchs are to be formally recognised as a third sex and listed as a "backward" caste entitled to reserved government jobs and university places.

New Zealand has a long and ignominious history of suspicion and hostility towards people of Asian descent.

A transgender Auckland teen rewrote pageant history early this morning after earning a place in next month's final of the Battle of the Babes.

New Zealand's male-dominated business culture with its old-boy sports and education network is sabotaging the promotion of women, says exiting Summerset Group boss Norah Barlow.

An aspiring transgender model has vowed to take to the catwalk tomorrow night despite a row over whether she was eligible to enter a beauty contest.

The woman in charge of equal employment opportunities is set to "crack the whip" on government departments for failing to close the gender pay gap.

It's all part of Tony Abbott's vision of a new Liberal dawn. The Oz PM's conservative Government intends to dilute racial vilification laws to enshrine the right of Australians to be bigots.

A vintage relationship guide aimed at women reveals the outrageous sexism practiced by men during the Forties.

Australia's federal Attorney-General George Brandis is serious when he says on his watch, "people do have a right to be bigots".

Serving world leaders their lunch is a serious affair. No room for "blondes" or women in dresses then, it appears.

It's unlikely many of us lost much sleep at the thought of Fred Phelps slipping away, writes Jack Tame.

What I want to think about is how grateful I am to the refugees who come and settled in NZ and how angry I am at the disregard with which we treat them, writes Dr Avril Bell.

A company which sacked its general manager because he did not fit in with the company, even though he was a "nice person", has had to pay the man more than $36,000.