National MP Kanwaljit Singh Bakshi is threatening to take a south Auckland club to the Human Rights Commission over its headwear ban.

Eight families who say they need help to look after their disabled children have been left waiting almost a year for a decision by the Human Rights Review Tribunal.

Matt Damon talks to about his roles in two upcoming releases - one as a player, and the other as a whistleblower.

Activists say African country still falls short on human rights.

Twenty years after the Convention of the Rights of the Child was introduced, Dita De Boni asks whether we're doing enough to protect our kids.

A mentally ill patient restrained in solitary confinement for almost six years is one of several disturbing cases the Ombudsmen have uncovered.

The Melbourne Cup could become part of an international money laundering scheme if dictator Ramzan Kadyrov's horse wins.

A black woman's appearance on a talent show in China has provoked a storm of abuse on the internet and a rare debate on racism in the media.

MPs today passed a law that by 2011 will allow police to take DNA samples from anyone they intend charging with an imprisonable offence.