Up to a quarter of a million children, young people and vulnerable adults were abused in New Zealand’s faith-based and state care institutions in the past several decades, a public inquiry ...

New Zealand’s Prime Minister Christopher Luxon made a “formal and unreserved” apology in Parliament on Tuesday for the widespread abuse, torture and neglect of hundreds of thousands of ...

I do believe that is where New Zealand will head, in time. I believe it is likely to occur in my lifetime," she said. "But I don't see it as a short-term measure or anything that is on the agenda ...

Of 650,000 children and vulnerable adults in New Zealand’s state, foster, and church care between 1950 and 2019 — in a country that today has a population of 5 million — nearly a third ...

New Zealand is one of 15 realms to count the British Monarch as head of state including Australia and Canada, although the role is largely ceremonial.

New Zealand ranks No. 9 overall in the U.S. News Best ... Though the British monarch remains head of state, New Zealand has operated under an independent parliamentary democracy led by a prime ...

An inquiry found abuse, torture and neglect of some 200,000 people in state care over 70 years. People with disabilities or from Maori and Pacific Islander communities were especially vulnerable.

In New Zealand, this is flipped on its head, as everyone has the ability to ask for damages from the ACC, regardless of whether anyone is at fault for their injury.