Budget 2024 – UNICEF Aotearoa invites Government to include missing youth engagement in next...
Source: UNICEF Aotearoa NZ
Following the release of the coalition Government’s 2024 Budget last week, UNICEF Aotearoa is inviting decision-makers to start meaningful engagement with children...
Release: Barbara Edmonds post-Budget speech
Source: New Zealand Labour Party
You may have heard me talk already about my upbringing, and pathway to becoming Labour’s finance spokesperson.
I find the easiest...
‘There is a wall between us’: As new school year begins in Thailand, funding...
Source: Save The Children
Esther*(27) at a house where teacher training takes place. Photo: Amy Sawitta Lefevre/ Save the Children.
MAE SOT, Thailand, 4 June 2024 – As Thai children head back...
Foreign Affairs – Former NZ Associate Minister of Foreign Affairs Calls on NZ government...
Source: Hon Matt Robson
NZ should front-foot international opposition to the illegal acts against Cuba and uphold the international rule of law
“The omission of Cuba...
Leaders must take action to protect children in India as country swelters through record-breaking...
Source: Save The Children
NEW DELHI, 31 May 2024: India is grappling with one of its worst heatwaves on record, with temperatures touching 50°C in...
Budget 2024 – Budget funding an opportunity to change the lives of intellectually disabled...
Source: IHC
IHC says the extra $1.1 billion over five years that the government has allocated to Whaikaha in the Budget must be used to...
Budget neglects Māori and disregards Te Tiriti
Source: Green Party
The Green Party’s Te Mātāwaka (Māori and Pasifika) caucus has labelled this year’s Budget as unambitious for Māori and unapologetic in its...
Trickle-down tax cuts while the planet and social contract burns
Source: Green Party
The Government’s bloody-minded commitment to delivering trickle-down tax cuts at all costs comes at the expense of investment in people and planet.
“The...
Government gives nothing to climate and inequality crises
Source: Green Party
The coalition Government has offered Aotearoa little hope and even less ambition in this year’s Budget.
“Today the Government had a choice to...
Bangladesh: More than 270,000 children homeless after Cyclone Remal batters coastal area
Source: Save The Children
DHAKA, 30 May, 2024: More than 270,000 children in Bangladesh have lost their homes or are living in damaged houses after...
Budget 2024 – Government will lock 20,000 more children in poverty with Budget policies...
Source: Child Poverty Action Group
The government has chosen tax cuts for landlords over unlocking children from hardship with this year’s Budget, and are putting an...
Budget 2024 fails to deliver investment that New Zealanders need
Source: Council of Trade Unions – CTU
Budget 2024 is placing this governments ideological wants before real New Zealanders’ needs.
“Tax cuts and spending cuts are...
