“Political Apathy Killing Kids”

New Zealand’s Pediatric Society has told a parliamentary committee that the country has the world’s worst rates of child death and injury from preventable causes in the developed world, a damming indictment of the state of the nation’s health service, coming hot on the heels of admissions that maternity services were stretched to breaking point.…

New Zealand Placed First in Global Peace Index

Vision of Humanity’s Global Peace Index (GPI) has put New Zealand in pole position in a league table of countries most at peace. The GPI’s International Review Panel has as its chair Professor Kevin P. Clements, Director, of the National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Otago, New Zealand. No conflict…