Aid agencies call on Government to step up its assistance.

It comes as UN report says nearly a billion people could go hungry this year.

New Zealand fell 10 points below Australia in the Global Childhood Report rankings.

Moves to tackle child poverty welcomed, but advocates say beneficiaries let down.

Efforts to tackle child poverty in this year's Budget have been met with mixed responses.

Aid worker Roland van Hauwermeiren was accused of using sex workers back in 2004.

The man who wanted to be Prime Minister on his year in war-ravaged South Sudan.

There needs to be a shake-up in the charity sector to ensure greater transparency and remove the tax advantages given to big charity groups, a NZ think-tank says.

A disturbing video put out by Save The Children has shown what Syria's civil war and refugee crisis would look like if it was set in the West.

What's happening in Syria today is an abomination, one that the world is watching coldly from a distance, writes Professor Stephen Hawking.

Labour's leader hints at what's beneath his calm exterior: 'You don't wear your guns on the outside'

Voluntourism catching on with holidaymakers and companies.

The NZ woman whose husband died in the Haitian quake hopes to start a foundation in his name focusing on youth, sports and education in Haiti.