Earlier this year, Auckland doctor Sudhvir Singh was filling out a customer survey when he came to a section asking his ethnicity.

Australia's conservative Government intends to dump laws that ban hate speech on the grounds that they inhibit free speech.

David Cunliffe says Judith Collins is a trout. She responded by calling him a "recidivist sexist", as he previously said the human race would die out if she were the last woman on Earth.

Minister for Women's Affairs Judith Collins has accused Labour leader David Cunliffe of sexism after he referred to her as a "trout" in an opinion piece.

A controversial church leader and critic of homosexuality has made peace with a prominent transgender adversary as she battles kidney disease.

Dutch museums are trying to trace the owners of a unexpectedly high number of art pieces that were confiscated by the Nazis over 70 years ago.

New Zealand is among the top 10 best places to be a woman, according to a worldwide report on gender equality.

A New Zealand church has been let off the hook for forbidding a gay man from becoming a priest.

Television presenter Gozde Kansu has been sacked for wearing a low-cut dress during a show.

BurgerFuel says it reacted swiftly to snuff out a marketing exercise gone wrong after an employee at a Parnell store dressed up in blackface costume to hand out fliers promoting a Usain Bolt-themed chicken burger.

The Herald on Sunday has obtained documents outlining how KFC demands staff be capable of all duties to an "All Star" level.

It was less than two weeks ago, on August 28, that we saw the 50th anniversary of the landmark march on Washington - the historic event that ended in Dr Martin Luther King's "I have a dream" speech, a watershed for race relations in the US.

The widow of the man slain while working at a stop-go sign was forced to prove she hadn't killed him before life insurance was paid.

President Barack Obama was set to lead civil rights pioneers Wednesday in a ceremony for the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington, where Dr. Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech roused the 250,000 people who rallied there decades ago for ra

The head of New Zealand's third-largest church has asked its ministers to consider a temporary ban on gay marriages to preserve the church's "peace and unity".

The taxi driver racially abused in an alarming outburst caught on camera has returned to work, but the unsavoury incident has persuaded him to leave the industry.

A complaint against broadcaster Michael Laws over his comments about the treatment of dementia patients has not been upheld by the Broadcasting Standards Authority.

Race-based abuse is a fact of life in the taxi industry, says an Indian taxi driver injured in a brutal attack.

Gay competitors in next year's Winter Olympics risk arrest by Russian police if they engage in "propaganda" for their homosexuality, Russia's Sports Minister has confirmed.

For decades, we've been told that if we worked hard and were patient, eventually the gender pay gap would close, writes Catriona McLennan.

The Southland man who today escaped criminal charges for a foul-mouthed anti-Islamic rant has written a formal apology expressing shame for his "terrible words".

The Invercargill taxi driver who was subjected to a foul-mouthed anti-Islamic rant by a drunk passenger has taken a further three days off work due to stress.

The racist taxi passenger has been invited to an 'Islam open day' after his rant was caught on video, but there's no sign of him in Invercargill today.

The man at the centre of a racism controversy was told to stay away from work, as he made a tearful apology to the boss of the taxi driver he abused.

Invercargill Mayor Tim Shadbolt says residents were generally "very tolerant'' of immigrants, after a racist rant against a taxi driver in the city was caught on camera.