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Wellington coroner may get more than he bargained for
Wed, 16 Oct 2013 19:08:56 +1300 | Euthanasia Free NZ
The Wellington coroner, Ian Roderick Smith is reported today to be calling for M.Ps to debate the issue of euthanasia in an extension to his findings on the death of an elderly woman. According to some reports she was a member of a pro-euthanasia ...More >>
Martin Doyle cartoon: Ko to maatau moni tenei
Wed, 16 Oct 2013 17:52:11 +1300 | Martin Doyle
Education Minister Hekia Parata is strong to probe into the finances of the Kohanga Reo. More >>
SOUTH KOREA: Miryang villagers maltreated by government
Wed, 16 Oct 2013 17:44:46 +1300 | Asian Human Rights Commission
The situation in Miryang is deeply alarming and appears to be deteriorating. The police are carrying out arbitrary arrests and detention, threat and harassment towards villagers and human rights defenders including violence and indiscriminate photo-taking ...More >>
SRI LANKA: Claims that prison death inquiry will cause riot
Wed, 16 Oct 2013 17:41:00 +1300 | Asian Human Rights Commission
The case of Ganeshan Nimalaruban, a Tamil prisoner whose death in prison evoked local and international expressions of concern last year was taken up on October 14 before the Supreme Court and the de facto Chief Justice, Mohan Peiris, refused to grant ...More >>
New Zealander and Arctic Sunrise captain refused bail
Wed, 16 Oct 2013 17:36:45 +1300 | Greenpeace
New Zealander David Haussmann, along with the captain of the Greenpeace International ship Arctic Sunrise and one other activist, has been refused bail in Russia. The Greenpeace International activists appeared this morning before a court in Murmansk.More >>
PM accepts John Banks’ resignation as Minister
Wed, 16 Oct 2013 17:02:24 +1300 | New Zealand Government
Prime Minister John Key today announced that he has accepted John Banks’ offer to resign as a Minister. More >>
South Asia Media Solidarity Network Bulletin - October 2013
Wed, 16 Oct 2013 17:02:07 +1300 | International Federation of Journalists
Welcome to the e-bulletin of the South Asia Media Solidarity Network (SAMSN) for the month of October 2013. The next bulletin will be sent on November 15, 2013, and inputs are most welcome.More >>
Fiji: Media registration required in lead-up to election
Wed, 16 Oct 2013 16:58:59 +1300 | International Federation of Journalists
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins with Pacific Freedom Forum (PFF), the regional media monitoring group, in being deeply concerned that requirements proposed by Fiji’s media authority for foreign media trainers, independent journalists ...More >>
IFJ condemns Philippine’s journalist accreditation scheme
Wed, 16 Oct 2013 16:57:39 +1300 | International Federation of Journalists
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins with its affiliate, the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) in condemning House Bill 2550, the misnamed “Magna Carta for Journalists”, which seeks to impose an accreditation ...More >>
John Banks Resigns As Minister
Wed, 16 Oct 2013 16:41:12 +1300 | ACT New Zealand
ACT Leader John Banks today confirmed that he has stood down from his Ministerial positions following today’s decision at the Auckland District Court. More >>
Charles Taylor Transferred to UK for Enforcement of Sentence
Wed, 16 Oct 2013 16:23:43 +1300 | Special Court for Sierra Leone
Charles Ghankay Taylor, the convicted former President of Liberia, was transferred today from the Netherlands and the custody of the Special Court to the United Kingdom, where he will serve the remainder of his 50-year sentence for war crimes and crimes ...More >>
PM must stand Banks down and not allow his vote on SkyCity
Wed, 16 Oct 2013 15:44:42 +1300 | Green Party
The Prime Minister must stand John Banks down as minister and demand he abstains from voting on the NZ International Convention Centre Bill because of criminal charges he now faces over SkyCity donations to his mayoral campaign, the Green Party said ...More >>
John Key must cut John Banks and ACT loose
Wed, 16 Oct 2013 15:39:56 +1300 | New Zealand Labour Party
John Key can no longer stand by his disgraced government support partner John Banks after a court has decided he should stand trial over electoral fraud claims, Labour Leader of the House Grant Robertson says.More >>
New advisory group to support prisoner education
Wed, 16 Oct 2013 15:16:31 +1300 | New Zealand Government
Corrections Minister Anne Tolley says an expert advisory group has been appointed to support a new education strategy for prisoners, as the Government continues its focus on reducing reoffending through rehabilitation.More >>
Labour lodges privileges complaint against Nick Smith
Wed, 16 Oct 2013 15:09:24 +1300 | New Zealand Labour Party
Labour today lodged a privileges complaint against Conservation Minister Nick Smith for deliberately misleading Parliament over a Department of Conservation draft submission on the proposed Ruataniwha dam.More >>
Gordon Campbell on Len Brown, trust, and Simon Bridges
Wed, 16 Oct 2013 11:25:02 +1300 | Gordon Campbell
Leaving aside the tawdry details of Auckland mayor Len Brown’s extramarital affair, the oddest feature is the timing of the revelations. By Brown’s own account to John Campbell last night, the affair ended mid year, just before the election campaign ...More >>
New NZ Standards system announced
Tue, 15 Oct 2013 17:40:56 +1300 | New Zealand Government
Commerce Minister Craig Foss today announced changes to maintain and strengthen the development and delivery of New Zealand Standards. More >>
SRI LANKA: Inquiry on the Welikada and Vavuniya Prison Riots
Tue, 15 Oct 2013 17:34:49 +1300 | Asian Human Rights Commission
This intervention is made in a spirit of democratic engagement by the Friday Forum, a group of concerned citizens who have come together to consider current issues of public interest with a view to making a contribution to peace, democracy, good governance ...More >>
Air NZ application for overseas workers unjustifiable
Tue, 15 Oct 2013 17:05:50 +1300 | New Zealand Labour Party
It is unjustifiable for Air New Zealand to seek to recruit aircraft engineers offshore when it recently announced it would lay off Kiwi workers, Labour’s spokesperson on industrial affairs Andrew Little says.More >>
Standards system improvements on the right track
Tue, 15 Oct 2013 16:21:52 +1300 | BusinessNZ
BusinessNZ says many of the changes to New Zealand’s system of standards proposed today by the Government are on the right track, but it will be important that the standard setting process remains demonstrably independent of government and regulatory ...More >>
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