CLIMATE CRISIS – Children face life with far more heatwaves, floods, droughts and wildfires...
Source: Save The Children
Children born over the past year will on average face seven times more scorching heatwaves during their lives than their grandparents...
Increased tax revenue creates opportunity for stimulus tax cuts
Source: Taxpayers Union
16 DECEMBER 2020FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEResponding to the release of Treasury’s Half Year Economic and Fiscal Update, New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union spokesman Louis Houlbrooke says:“Over...
Statement in response to bombing of children’s hospital
Source: Save The Children
Responding to yesterday’s reports that a hospital, including a maternity and children’s ward in Mariupol, Ukraine has been bombed, Save the...
Unitec fraud penalty is pathetic
Source: Taxpayers Union
18 NOVEMBER 2020FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEThe New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union has slammed the sentence of a former senior Unitec manager as pathetic.Union spokesperson Louis Houlbrooke said: “Kimberley...
Yemen: Seven years into conflict, 60% of children know someone who has been injured
Source: Save The Children
Isaac*, 14, at his home in Taiz, recovering after being shot by a sniper while playing football outside his school
SANA’A, 24...
Child Poverty Action Group welcomes moves to cover birth injuries under ACC
Source: Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG)
28 September 2021
The Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) welcomes the announcement by ACC Minister Carmel Sepuloni that some birth...
Philippines: UN resolution a missed chance for justice but scrutiny continues
Source: Amnesty International NZ
The resolution on the Philippines adopted by the UN Human Rights Council today is a missed opportunity to seek justice for thousands of unlawful...