Abuse and torture victims still waiting for government redress
A man who survived torture as a teenager at the notorious Lake Alice psychiatric facility in the 1970s and had to go to the UN in his efforts to gain…
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Tautoko Tāne Aotearoa publishes part one of a research study on effective support services for male suriviors of sexual violence.
Tautoko Tāne Aotearoa publishes part two of a research study on effective support services for male suriviors of sexual violence.
A new peer support framework developed especially for New Zealand survivors with links to Mātauranga Māori principles and a focus on moving people towards well being.
A man who survived torture as a teenager at the notorious Lake Alice psychiatric facility in the 1970s and had to go to the UN in his efforts to gain…
Offices of the Attorney-General and Solicitor-General have been implicated in what a Royal Commission calls a ‘cover-up’ of torture and sexual abuse of children in the custody of the state….
When Helen Clark came into power in 1999, the system under her government continued to minimise the Crown’s liability for the state’s torture and abuse of children, which had breached…
Even with the UN and a Royal Commission of Inquiry breathing down its neck, Crown Law was still not disclosing information to police or the UN’s Committee Against Torture. Aaron Smale…
He was put through the legal meat grinder so the Crown could escape liability for thousands of victims. But that victory has now been exposed as cynical and brutal. Aaron…
The Royal Commission has revealed systemic abuse of hundreds of thousands of children in the custody of the state. But it has also uncovered what it calls a cover-up. At…
Ahead of the Crown’s planned formal apology next month to survivors of abuse in state care, it appoints a new executive with history in its handling of the affair.
Male child sexual abuse is over-represented in institutional settings. This realization has increasingly come into public focus in recent decades initially through lived experience, often with male survivors’ stories told…
Falling victim to crime is a frightening event, with serious negative consequences for victims’ health, labour market participation, and human capital accumulation. Most existing studies on the impacts of victimisation…