Muslims girls in Switzerland must not be exempt from mixed swimming lessons, the European Court of Human Rights has said in a groundbreaking ruling.

In 2015 and 2016 the Human Rights Commission received 61 complaints alleging discrimination due to one's sexual orientation.

She tried to escape many times but was hauled back, sold, attacked and raped. Now she tells her story.

New Zealand needs to show Israel there is a cost of continuing war, by refusing to accept imports or Israeli visitors from the occupied territories.

Photographer says people opposed to gender diversity need to 'get over it'.

Migrants are seeking to marry "sham brides" who are pregnant with another man's child in a bid to exploit human rights laws and remain in Britain.

Dozens of people have been executed by Syrian government loyalists sweeping through the remaining opposition-held districts of Aleppo.

Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte's war on drugs has sent the death toll to 5,927 in five months and has said the way to stop the slaughter is to stop taking drugs.

The public's reaction to Labour MP David Shearer's resignation from Parliament has so far been overwhelmingly supportive this morning.

Tristram Clayton joins Equal Employment Opportunities Commissioner, Dr. Jackie Blue to reflect on the NZ Herald report into exploitation in the human hair trade industry and what New Zealand businesses and consumers can do about it.

Human rights advocates are calling for New Zealand's million dollar hair industry to be regulated in light of a Weekend Herald investigation.

Photographs from high above North Korea show what observers say are concerning developments in the regime's arsenal of repression.

The Human Rights Commission has come out in support of an independent inquiry into the abuse of New Zealanders in state care, to ensure

Black Gold: The billion-dollar human hair trade

Today I've decided to out myself - as the reporter who was asked by the President of the Philippines if I was married.

The Human Rights Commission has received 16 complaints about Brian Tamaki's rant blaming gay people for earthquakes.

In an exclusive interview with the Herald, Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte twice confuses New Zealand with Australia ... and asked a reporter if she was married.

Filipino president Rodrigo Duterte has ordered a banquet lunch be delivered to his Auckland hotel ahead of his expected departure later today.

A Kiwi who tackled institutional racism at Harvard Law School now wants to share his experiences in the Human Rights Commission anti-racism campaign.

The US presidential election has become an object lesson in everything that ails a country long seen as a beacon of freedom and hope.

The United Nations have said that at least 239 migrants have drowned this week in two shipwrecks off the coast of Libya.

More than 300 child soldiers, dubbed the "cubs of the caliphate", have reportedly been killed after being sent into battle.

A boxer and weight loss star is fighting to get his dying sister out of prison so the mother-of-three can spend her remaining time with her family.

A PhD student at the University of Auckland is frustrated at having to fight to find an appropriate space to breastfeed her child.

Police have admitted setting up a drink-drive checkpoint near a euthanasia meeting.

Diversity champion Global Women wants to see a minimum target of 30 per cent of female directors on the boards of NZX-listed companies. The

COMMENT: It's time to revive the Tampa spirit and rescue refugees our Australian neighbours have sent off to rot in hellish prison camps on remote islands.

Philippine President Duterte's state of mind is under scrutiny as the death toll in his war on drugs exceeds 3600.

Colin Craig has taken a hammering over the past week but if he is feeling the heat, he is not letting on - and is even considering a possible comeback.

Dozens of people died Sunday at a festival after security forces fired tear gas into a crowd during a political protest and provoked a stampede.