The British university equality officer at the centre of a racism and sexism row could lose her job after she allegedly tweeted a hashtag 'kill all white men'.

Yesterday, as the Senate began public hearings into conditions in the Australian-funded detention centre, those words seemed not too far from the truth.

High-profile lawyer Mai Chen locks her car on the drive to work because of abuse stemming from racist attitudes, Act leader David Seymour says.

A global study found that NZ has the highest number of 22-year-old males hiding they are gay and the second-highest number of lesbians concealing their sexuality.

The macho Kiwi rugby, racing and beer mentality is keeping gay sportspeople firmly in the cupboard.

More young Kiwis are hiding their sexuality than anywhere else in the world, a ground-breaking homophobia study shows.

An engineering firm that has a topless calendar and uses a bikini-clad model on the back of a delivery truck has been blasted as sexist by top scientist, Dr Michelle Dickinson.

A few years ago, I was returning by car to Washington from Baltimore when I took a wrong turn and got lost.

I was asking an American professor a complicated question about Anzus in a university lecture theatre when he started stroking my leg, writes Catriona MacLennan.

When Poppy Smart was wolf-whistled at by builders on her walk to work, she at first tried to ignore it.

Former Justice Minister Judith Collins has told TVNZ bosses she wants its news bulletins to take women more seriously.

Nicole Kidman is facing questions about her commitment to women's rights, after endorsing an airline accused over the alleged mistreatment of its female staff.

Pressure is mounting for the abolition of a law allowing Queenslanders who kill homosexuals to have a murder charge reduced by arguing that their victim propositioned them.

Kylie Jenner has come under fire for pictures she has posted to her Instagram account which people are claiming show her with “blackface”.

The country's top cop says he is pleased to see Kiwis standing up against racism after members of the public helped to identify a man who verbally attacked two foreign men on a bus.

The images aim to demystify and destigmatise the female body - to make viewers "realise these are just regular, normal processes," nothing to reject or shame

The Asia New Zealand Foundation has been surveying New Zealanders about their attitudes towards Asia for nearly two decades, capturing an evolving picture of our responses to demographic and economic....

The instructions are for shirts made by Salvo Sports, who claim they were issued in response to “a number of buyers who ask how to treat fine jerseys”.

The broadcaster Alison Mau wrote a piece at the weekend about what she called "The curse of casual sexism".

America's top law enforcement official has delivered a scathing denunciation of the police department in Ferguson, the St Louis suburb at the centre of violent race protests last year, as a....

Fighting began in the key central Iraqi city of Tikrit, birthplace of the former dictator Saddam Hussein, as government forces and Shia militia launched a major assault to displace Isis jihadists.

A director of an international human rights organisation has admitted he was involved in preventing a black French man from entering a Paris underground train amid racist chanting by Chelsea football fans.

A video of a woman who appears to tell a passenger that his ancestors "used to be slaves" during an argument on the London Underground is being investigated by police.

Society still expects women to behave like women and men to behave like men, and accept the benefits and disadvantages our genders are entitled to, writes Heather du Plessis-Allan.

"I am a Muslim. I am labelled as a terrorist. I trust you. Do you trust me? Give me a hug." And with that, Mustafa Mawla waited for someone to hug him.

When Benedict Cumberbatch put his foot in it, he copped abuse. He’s not alone in falling into the language trap.

Organisers of a Maori basketball tournament have hit back at accusations it banned non-Maori coaches and staff from entering the competition.

Organisers of a basketball tournament have been called on to allow a girls' team to play after they were refused entry because their coach wasn't Maori.