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Following the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, we are witnessing a wave of legal reforms across Australia aimed at helping survivors seek justice. Most visibly, there…
For the first time in its four-decade history, Dunedin’s Rape Crisis centre will work with sexual abuse victims of all genders. The shift is part of a major overhaul of…
Ribbons have been tied to the fence of the Catholic Cathedral in downtown Auckland by attendees and witnesses from the Royal Commission into Abuse. Published in Radio New Zealand
The majority of 23,000 sexual violence incidents reported to police during the past five years were experienced by children or young people, according to a new Ministry of Justice report….
The Children’s Commissioner has told the Abuse in Care Royal Commission that his office has failed to properly monitor the state care system. Since 1989, the Office of the Children’s…
A clinical child psychologist has told the Royal Commission on Abuse in Care that children were often better off in state care than staying in families where they were abused….
A woman has told the Royal Commission investigating abuse in care she was moved between at least a dozen care homes and raped multiple times – all before she turned…
Samoa police have finalised criminal charges against a 51-year-old reverend of the Methodist Church, Tugia Tuliau, who is facing 10 counts. Charges include one of rape and seven of sexual…
Two lawyers who have represented more than 1000 abuse survivors have told the Royal Commission no victim has ever received adequate compensation for what they suffered. The inquiry into abuse…
Two lawyers who represent claimants who were abused while in state or faith-based care say the number of people who have come forward is growing. The Royal Commission of Inquiry…
A decision to change a controversial school’s name has been put on hold while Dunedin’s Bishop waits for word from Rome. Published in Radio New Zealand
The Vatican’s repeated refusal to cooperate with official investigations into paedophile priests and its delay in stripping convicted offenders of their clerical status has been condemned by the UK’s child…
Less than a third of sexual violence cases reported to the police make it court, according to a new report released by the Ministry of Justice. Out of the almost…
Analysis: A long time coming. Finally, after months of haggling over terms of reference, years of steadily growing political discussion and decades of pressure from those who experienced this vast…
Survivors of historical cases of child rape, violence and neglect at state-owned care institutions are being officially heard for the first time. Witnesses on Tuesday began giving evidence at the…
Witnesses have this morning begun giving evidence at the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse in State Care. One of the first to appear will be high-profile former prisoner Arthur…
Warning: This story discusses issues related to rape and sexual violence. As the Royal Commission of Inquiry into State Abuse begins public hearings, its survivor advisory group is in disarray….
Jehovah’s Witnesses church elders in New Zealand have been told to destroy documents, and child sex abuse survivors fear that will lead to the cover up of cases. Published in…
Peter Lineham talks about the issues arising from the unlikely defence by children’s author, Joy Cowley, of a disgraced bishop. Listen online at Radio New Zealand By the Panel Published…
The handling of historic sexual offending within the Catholic Diocese of Dunedin by then-Bishop John Kavanagh has been referred to the Vatican by New Zealand’s top Catholic. Published in Radio…
A support group for survivors of sexual abuse by priests wants more transparency over an agreement struck with the Catholic Diocese of Dunedin. But the call by Dr Christopher Longhurst,…
Warning: This story discusses issues related to rape and sexual violence. Survivors have extended an olive branch to those running the Royal Commission of Inquiry into state abuse. Laura Walters…
A Melbourne man is fighting to hold the Catholic church accountable for three clerics and a teacher who sexually violated him as a boy in Otago. Marc – RNZ won’t…
The man whose child sex abuse case gripped the city of Christchurch and the nation, has died. Peter Ellis’ death comes just five weeks before his last bid to clear…
