The Ministry of Health acted unlawfully in refusing to consider paying a mother for the care she gives her Down Syndrome son, the High Court has ruled.

The Big Gay Out was held at Coyle Park in Pt Chevalier.

Dame Rosie Horton is not one to shy away from telling the truth, discovers Penny Lewis.

Hundreds of people black and white, many holding hands, filled an Alabama church that was bombed by the white supremacist Ku Klux Klan 50 years ago.

NZ could follow Britain's lead and appoint a Victims' Commissioner, but the Justice Minister said the move would have to make a real difference.

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 detention and subsequent criminal investigation into the partner of a Guardian journalist threatens to undermine the position of the free press.

The number of marriage forms downloaded reached 516 on Monday, when the new documents became available allowing same-sex couples to wed.

A Pakistan-born taxi driver was subjected to a torrent of foul-mouthed abuse - and it's all been caught on camera.

Jeered by protesters, human rights activists, jurists, Australia's Prime Minister yesterday refused to budge on his new PNG refugee policy.

More than half the people who responded to a Herald-DigiPoll survey think criticisms of Dame Susan Devoy's appointment as Race Relations Commissioner were unfair.

How would these so-called experts feel if their attitudes paved the way for the extermination of all the world's kittens by masked terrorist gangs, asks Toby Manhire.

A Chinese New Zealander who entered China illegally to see his parents claims he was detained, chained and tortured for five days before being deported to Auckland.

Owners of a Whangarei lodge have apologised after turning away a lesbian couple who had booked a shared bed - but are not ready to welcome back gay people.

Labour leader David Shearer has quashed his party's proposal for women-only candidate selections.

Images from inside the military prison at Guantanamo Bay give an insight into the heavy-handed tactics the United States is using to force-feed prisoners.

Let's not judge her before we know her and even when we think we know her, let's focus on the results, writes Gregory Fortuin.

Rugby fans have got in behind the woman who stood up to the use of homophobic slurs at an All Black test - although some believe she is just being oversensitive.

Controversial legislation which would allow boat people to be detained for up to six months was expected to pass another hurdle last night.

A young woman who asked three All Blacks fans at Eden Park not to use homophobic slurs was told by the men that "it's just part of the game".

The outcome of a Human Rights Commission complaint by a lesbian couple who say they were discriminated against when a Whangarei lodge would not let them share a bed will only be made public if both sides agree.

Twenty-five women from 21 countries became New Zealand citizens at Government House in Wellington yesterday.

The Green Party says the Government must reveal the extent to which the United States' National Security Agency has passed information on to it.

Plans to fine women who have children out of wedlock have caused outrage in the central Chinese city of Wuhan.

Photographs of breasts cover the walls of the Kiev basement that serves as the global headquarters of Femen, the women's rights movement born in Ukraine.