The owners of a liquor store who were found to have racially harassed an employee have lodged an appeal against the judgment, saying they weren't given a chance to defend the claims.

Unions and human rights organisations have long-campaigned against the human rights abuses Fifa has left in its wake, writes Dennis Maga.

Women seeking an abortion are being offered easier access to the procedure with a free, national telephone consultation service that started this week.

The survivor of a camp recounts her 25 terrifying days late last year near the southern Thai town of Padang Besar, where she saw people die every two or three days.

The Syrian Air Force dropped barrel bombs on a market and another civilian area of Aleppo province, killing 71 people.

Italy is now the only western European country that does not recognise either same-sex marriage or civil unions.

A cross-party working group is to look at and advocate for the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) people.

A disputes resolution expert says the $25,000 penalty handed down to Orcon this week should be a wake-up call to other companies on how the Privacy Act operates.

Ahead of Lecretia Seales' euthanasia legal battle, two experts say there's a strong case the law here doesn't stop doctors helping mentally competent, terminally ill people to die.

Orcon has been ordered to pay out $25,000 to a man whose life was thrown into turmoil after they wrongly referred him to debt collectors.

Yesterday, as the Senate began public hearings into conditions in the Australian-funded detention centre, those words seemed not too far from the truth.

Egyptian Islamists have warned that the world should brace itself for a backlash after the country's first freely elected President Mohamed Morsi was given a death sentence.

Five years after he was arrested for helping his mother to die, a NZ-born doctor has won a landmark victory allowing assisted suicide in South Africa.

A coalition opposed to legalising euthanasia has welcomed the latest legal development in the case of terminally-ill Lecretia Seales.

A British grandmother on death row in Indonesia says executed Australian Andrew Chan was a hero to her.

Hopefully, Chan and Sukumaran's deaths will be a deterrent to other baby gangstas looking to make a quick buck. Then Chan and Sukumaran won't have died in vain, writes Kerre McIvor.

After years of objection from right-wing Israeli groups, the Jerusalem District Planning and Building Committee last month approved initial plans for 2500 houses on 150ha of land in the Kidron Valley in Al Sawahra.

The deaths of vulnerable people who are in state care or custody could have less independent scrutiny if proposed law changes go ahead.

I looked back through the archives to see whether Minister for Women, Louise Upston, had ever, in fact, said or done anything actually worthwhile for the women of NZ, writes Dita De Boni.

The executions of Bali Nine duo Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran has drawn much international criticism, but what do those who live in Indonesia think?

Prime Minister John Key has met with the Saudi Arabian king and raised the issue of human rights.

The Nigerian army has rescued 200 girls and 93 women who had been captured by terror group Boko Haram.

Rock superstar Serj Tankian may call NZ home - but today he'll be in Armenia, commemorating the lives of his ancestors lost to genocide 100 years ago.

A judge has granted the legal right of habeas corpus to two chimpanzees being held at a biomedical research facility in the US - a decision that animal rights activists hailed as the first time chimps that had been afforded the status of legal "persons".

A group opposed to euthanasia says allowing terminally ill woman Lecretia Seales to take a lethal dose of drugs would have far-reaching impacts on NZ society.

The Human Rights Commission and two other groups want to join a legal challenge by a terminally ill woman seeking the right for a doctor to help her die without criminal prosecution.

New Zealand’s human rights watchdog has added its voice to those calling for drastic action to tackle New Zealand’s housing problems.