No Right Turn

Between 1950 and 1993 the New Zealand government tortured and abused up to 250,000 children in residential care facilities . Following decad...

Between 1950 and 1993 the New Zealand government tortured and abused up to 250,000 children in residential care facilities . They then proce...

In 1998, in the wake of the Paremoremo Prison riot, the Department of Corrections established the "Behaviour Management Regime". P...

Last month, the government formally apologised to victims of child torture and abuse-in-care . Part of the apology was meant to be for the s...

Between 1950 and 1993 the New Zealand government tortured and abused up to 250,000 children in residential care facilities . Yesterday, foll...

The government held a formal apology ceremony this morning to victims of child torture and abuse-in-care. One of those "apologising...

Back in July, the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse in Care delivered its report, detailing a horrific litany of abuse for which the go...

In 1972, British soldiers tortured a false confession out of Liam Holden , resulting in him being given Britain's last death sentence. W...

Newsroom has an important story on the Royal Commission into State Abuse's formal finding of torture at Lake Alice, and what it means f...

Last week, Australia's ABC broke a major story about Australian SAS troops committing war crimes in Timor-Leste, murdering wounded peopl...

During the war on terror, the US ran a program of extraordinary rendition , in which alleged terrorists were kidnapped, taken to foreign cou...

One of the many horrors of America's "war on terror" is the way it has degraded human rights around the world, even in countri...

In 1971 the British government explicitly approved a policy of torture in Northern Ireland . Fourteen people were tortured as a result, roun...

The Independent Police Conduct authority has found police were unjustified in using an attack dog against a fleeing child : Police were not...

When Corrections Minister Kelvin Davis was first confronted with Corrections' abuse and torture of Mihi Bassett, he tried to deny the co...

Yesterday a New Zealand Judge issued a formal finding that the Department of Corrections had treated prisoners in a cruel, degrading and inh...

The Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security released their annual report today, and in amongst all the usual bureaucracy, there'...

We knew that US Immigration and Customs Enforcement was a moral void: they run concentration camps, and forcibly separate children from thei...

Today's outrage from the Independent Police Conduct Authority: police unjustifiably using a taser and pepper spray on a passenger from a...

Last week the Hit and Run inquiry reported back, and the report is currently sitting on Andrew Little's desk. Meanwhile, one of the su...