Prime Minister Julia Gillard now has no chance of avoiding a further, divisive, debate on gay marriage.

Women losing the gains of workplace equality...

A 16-year-old girl has claimed discrimination after her private Australian school banned her lesbian partner from the ball.

Women are losing some of the gains they have made towards workplace equality, the Human Rights Commission says.

Winston Churchill is rightly remembered for leading Britain through her finest hour - but what if he also led the country through her most shameful hour?

The 'Paul Henry' affair may well come up in talks between John Key and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at a summit in Hanoi.

Blockbuster movies are perpetuating negative female stereotypes, according to a study of family films.

Black people '26 times more likely' than white people to be stopped and searched by British police.

TVNZ's complaints committee has upheld the flood of complaints over Paul Henry's questioning of Sir Anand Satyanand's ethnic suitability to be Governor-General.

Jacinta Lal said controversy over the Miss IndiaNZ pageant had distracted from the "inappropriate and offensive" comments made by Paul Henry.

Goff has spent much of the past week playing political football with two of New Zealand's major trading relationships.

A blonde, blue-eyed woman is in a new racism row after winning a Miss IndiaNZ beauty contest, then being accused of not looking Indian enough.

The NZ Government has congratulated controversial Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo after earlier saying it was waiting on advice.

TVNZ says it has received a "substantial" number of calls from people interested in Paul Henry's job.

Major newspapers in New Delhi carried news of broadcaster Paul Henry's resignation today, and TVNZ says it has been flooded with support for the controversial host.

John Key says no Govt pressure was put on TVNZ over the Paul Henry fiasco and he is pleased the presenter decided to resign.

Paul Henry's racist comments finally caught up with him yesterday when he resigned from TVNZ after meeting the state broadcaster's chief executive.