Disability Services Consumer Consortium

Tawa Room, Brentwood Hotel, Kilbirnie

Hon Tariana Turia, Minister of Disability Issues / Associate Minister of Health

Thursday 18 March 2010; 11am

On World Water Day (Monday March 22) TEAR Fund is challenging Kiwis to make a difference for the more than 1 billion people living without access to clean water.

The World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) has condemned the continued imprisonment of Iranian journalist Emad Baghi and the repressive measures employed by the state to silence critical publications.

Philip Duck New Zealand's Justice Minister Simon Power and a small army of bureaucrats from various government ministries and departments have been ordered to New York to front up to the United Nations Human Rights Committee.

NZ NEEDS ASSESSMENT SERVICE COORDINATION ASSOCIATION (NASCA) GENERAL MEETING

Hon Tariana Turia, Associate Minister of Health and Minister of Disability Issues

Friday 12 March 2010; 10am

Latimer Hotel, Christchurch

Outstanding Cambridge High School Year 13 student, Jake Martin, has won this year's UNESCO Senior Student Award in the national science and research, Realise the Dream competition.

Wellington, March 9 NZPA - The trial of three peace activists charged with breaking into a Marlborough spy base last April was further delayed today, after a power cut affecting Wellington's central business district halted proceedings in the Wellington District Court.

The issue of how to promote and institutionalise the forensic documentation of alleged cases of torture will be the subject for a panel of renowned experts gathering in Geneva tomorrow (March 9), chaired by the UN Special Rapporteur on torture, Professor Manfred Nowak.

Today, on International Women's Day, NCWNZ is releasing the first of four consultation documents that will be used to gather feedback from women in New Zealand on the Government's performance against the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW).

The Council of Trade Unions wants the Minister of Women's Affairs to mark International Women's Day by paying more attention to working women in New Zealand.