A booklet aimed at addressing family violence in ethnic communities has been launched by the Government today.

Eight complaints have been lodged with the Human Rights Commission after a Wellington DJ suggested some Indian night-clubbers were "rapists" with bad dress sense.

Once upon a time, I was among the many women who bristled at the idea that there needed to be a certain number of women in politics, on management boards, or anywhere else, writes Dita De Boni.

Rod Emmerson's take on Vladimir Putin's law change.

A former top gay rugby player says life inside NZ's NPC environment was "suffocating and emotionally draining" and a gay All Black represents an important "last hurdle" for the sport.

'I lead this double life because I still have to make a living.' Five women tell the Herald about their lives and challenges they face being Muslim in NZ.

Partygoers are being urged to boycott a nightclub whose owner made racist remarks suggesting his Indian patrons were predatory rapists.

Labour's target of selecting candidates to ensure women make up at least half of its caucus by 2017 has been given the thumbs down in the latest Herald-DigiPoll.

An Indian IT worker wonders if it was racism that made a bouncer stop him and his friends from entering a bar at Auckland's Viaduct Harbour on New Year's Eve.

Earlier this year, Auckland doctor Sudhvir Singh was filling out a customer survey when he came to a section asking his ethnicity.

Minister for Women's Affairs Judith Collins has accused Labour leader David Cunliffe of sexism after he referred to her as a "trout" in an opinion piece.

A controversial church leader and critic of homosexuality has made peace with a prominent transgender adversary as she battles kidney disease.

It has been hailed as a Schindler's List for slavery, a long-overdue unflinching confrontation by Hollywood of the "original sin" on which the United States was founded.

Dutch museums are trying to trace the owners of a unexpectedly high number of art pieces that were confiscated by the Nazis over 70 years ago.

New Zealand is among the top 10 best places to be a woman, according to a worldwide report on gender equality.

A New Zealand church has been let off the hook for forbidding a gay man from becoming a priest.

Television presenter Gozde Kansu has been sacked for wearing a low-cut dress during a show.

BurgerFuel says it reacted swiftly to snuff out a marketing exercise gone wrong after an employee at a Parnell store dressed up in blackface costume to hand out fliers promoting a Usain Bolt-themed chicken burger.

The Herald on Sunday has obtained documents outlining how KFC demands staff be capable of all duties to an "All Star" level.