The Government will consider a proposal to allow workers to know if they are getting paid less than their colleagues because of their gender, but has concerns about it. Under the bill, employers would record any pay differences between men

Labour's Jacinda Ardern and National's Nikki Kaye on New Zealand's parental leave provisions.

A group campaigning for an end to Saudi Arabia's ban on women drivers is calling on Subaru-maker Fuji Heavy Industries to pull out of the kingdom.

Antenatal testing devalues children's lives and aims to cut Down births, battlers say.

In rural Nepal, where the going rate for a healthy orphan is US$6000 ($7449), about 600 children are missing.

Natalie Portman has signed Freedom to Marry's Say, "I Do" letter to President Barack Obama asking for marriage equality for gay couples.

The United Nations has declared internet access a human right and criticised "three strikes" laws like that in New Zealand.

"There is always a solution to every human problem - neat, plausible and wrong," wrote H.L. Mencken.