Tag: Ethnicity
Contribution by Pacific community more than money, says academic
By Rahul Bhattarai
The Pacific community has contributed immensely to New Zealand's economy - but that isn't the only contribution, says a leading development studies...
Bainimarama attacks opposition ‘lies’ for promoting Fiji ethnic hatred
By RNZ Pacific
Fiji's prime minister Voreqe Bainimarama has again hit out at opposition parties, calling them liars and accusing them of sowing division in...
Pat Walsh: Ahok is innocent — Indonesia needs him and renewed...
ANALYSIS: By Pat Walsh
The recent sentencing of Basuki "Ahok" Tjahaja Purnama, the Christian Chinese-Indonesian Governor of Jakarta, to two years in jail for blasphemy...
Where are you from? Hold that question and give us a...
Where are you from? This simple question, as harmless as it may be intended, is loaded with controversial assumptions of race, ethnicity and a...
Dame Susan Devoy: We have a choice on how our media...
New Zealand’s Race Relations Commissioner Dame Susan Devoy gave this opening address at the Ethnic Communities Engagement Summit at Auckland University of Technology at...
Images: Ethnic communities engage – let’s develop and grow
Organisers were delighted with the success of the first of three national Ethnic Communities Engagement summit in Auckland on Saturday - and the role...
Mainstream NZ media takes pasting at multicultural summit
Mainstream New Zealand news media were heavily criticised for "misrepresentations, sensationalism and exclusions" at the first of three national summits in Auckland today aimed...
‘Invisible’ Pacific, indigenous presence at UN disappoints NZ team
By TJ Aumua
Six of the Auckland participants who attended the UN Commission of the Status of Women held in New York in March have...