Voices

The importance of civil society organisations in promoting and protecting human rights and harmonious race relations

Speech for the Annual General Meeting of the Human Rights Network, Wellington, 16 April 2004, by Joris de Bres, Race Relations Commissioner.

HRC Speakers Forum: Human Rights and the Foreshore and Seabed

Human Rights Commision Speakers Forum in Wellington by Hon Dr Michael Cullen on 01 June 2004.

Social Justice is Gaining Momentum

The very controversial economic, social and cultural rights first championed by New Zealand at the United Nations almost 56 years ago, have finally got significant recognition in this country in the Human Rights Commission's major study, Human Rights in New Zealand Today, released last month.

Duncan Sarkie's Speech at HR Film Festival

I’m a writer, and I once attended a playwrights conference – a world playwrights conference with delegates gathered from all around the world – Chile, the Phillipines, Papua New Guinea, Ghana, South Africa, the Netherlands, Poland, many corners of the globe. Unfortunately everyone there assumed I was a Russian writer based on my pale skin and general impoverished look.