Hundreds of people braved the cold in Wellington and Auckland as part of a worldwide protest against the culture of blaming the victim rather than the rapist for attacks on women.

Antenatal testing devalues children's lives and aims to cut Down births, battlers say.

We asked Labour's Jacinda Ardern and National's Nikki Kaye for their views on same-sex marriage.

Natalie Portman has signed Freedom to Marry's Say, "I Do" letter to President Barack Obama asking for marriage equality for gay couples.

Fat activism is the latest movement sweeping the globe as plus-size people rally against prejudice and discrimination.

Ricky Martin was scared to come out as gay because he thought homosexuality was "evil".

The Malaysian authorities are at the centre of an increasingly heated row after it emerged that 66 Muslim boys identified by teachers as "effeminate" had been dispatched to a special camp to discourage them from becoming gay.

When Confederate forces fired the first shots at Fort Sumter on April 12, 150 years ago, triggering the American Civil War, almost four million African Americans were slaves.

Meadowlands, a shopping centre in one of the most Chinese parts of Auckland, tells a story of how NZ is...

Pauline Hanson has failed in her bid to be elected to the upper house of the NSW parliament.

Yet another scandal has rocked the Australian military.

The 17-yr-old son of a former Cabinet minister says he struggled as a closet homosexual boarder at King's College.

An amendment to stalking laws is expected to be introduced in the Victorian state Parliament tomorrow.