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Labour MP Louisa Wall has accused China of harvesting organs from political prisoners among the Uyghur and Falun Gong populations.
The MP, who is part of a global network of politicians monitoring the actions of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), also says her own government needs to do more to counter what she calls the slave labour trade in China.
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Read more: Labour MP Louisa Wall accuses China of harvesting organs from political prisoners
- Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2021/07/labour-mp-louisa-wall-accuses-china-of-harvesting-organs-from-political-prisoners.html
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A political commentator is urging the international community to get involved and for a politician to be dragged out of office as a new development emerges in Samoa's battle for power.
Political commentator Mata'afa Keni Lesa spoke to The AM Show on Monday almost two months after FAST Party broke a month-long deadlock from the April election to claim a majority of seats in Parliament.
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- Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2021/07/samoa-political-commentator-calls-for-international-intervention-as-head-of-state-claims-to-be-above-the-law.html
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New Zealand's largest shipment of Pfizer vaccines has arrived two days ahead of schedule, Covid-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins has announced.
The shipment of 150,000 doses touched down late on Sunday afternoon.
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Mike King says the Ministry of Health (MoH) has rejected funding pleas for Gumboot Friday funding to provide free counselling for young people.
In an Instagram post on Thursday morning King, a prominent mental health campaigner who founded Gumboot Friday, said he'd received a letter saying the MoH "wasn't in a position" to fund the service.
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Two decades since paid parental leave was introduced, just over 1 per cent is taken by men – yet fathers say they want to spend at least three months at home with their babies. What’s standing in the way, and is dedicated dad leave the answer? Michelle Duff reports.
In the trenches. A shock to the system. Just trying to survive. Peter Theiler’s description of the first few months with a newborn uses the language of a battlefield, or a life-threatening emergency.
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Read more: The dad trap: The parental leave system that shuts out men
- Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/300348034/the-dad-trap-the-parental-leave-system-that-shuts-out-men
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Police are investigating a family’s claims that their father had more than $500,000 siphoned from his accounts by a woman he met and moved in with. For 18 months Amy Ridout has investigated the plight of Athol Brown who was once a wealthy man, but now lives off the pension.
In March, Katie Brown climbed over a fence and rescued her father.
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Read more: ‘She cleaned him out’: Family seek answers after 92-year-old ‘left with nothing’
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A Navy sailor sexually violated and indecently assaulted his colleagues while on duty in Canada, a court martial jury has concluded.
The 27-year-old sailor, who has interim name suppression, denied the offences at the hearing held at Devonport Naval Base on Auckland’s North Shore this week.
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ACT leader David Seymour says "Helen Clark got it right" by not signing up to the UN Declaration of Indigenous Peoples in 2007, and is now calling for all parties in Parliament to renounce the declaration.
New Zealand was one of only four countries that did not join the declaration when it was established in 2007, though National later signed up in 2010.
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