Super Diverse Women Q&A: Barbara Ala’alatoa
Published in the NZ Herald The Herald this week marks the launch of Super Diverse Women — a new organisation dedicated to championing the rights and achievements of women from indigenous and migrant backgrounds. Today, we talk to Barbara Ala’alatoa, principal […]
Super diverse women celebrated at launch
Published in the NZ Herald Diverse women have been celebrated at the launch of a new organisation dedicated to championing the rights and achievements of women from indigenous and migrant backgrounds. Super Diverse Women was launched at an event at NZME […]
Ethnic and minority women face many different forms of discrimination in New Zealand
Published in the NZ Herald Rez Gardi lived in a refugee camp in Pakistan, coming to New Zealand under the refugee quota system at age 6. After spending nearly 20 years in Auckland, which she now calls home, Gardi says […]
Helene Wong: My experience of diversity in NZ
Published in the NZ Herald Describe your ethnic or cultural background and how this has shaped the way you view yourself and the world. I’m a New Zealander with Chinese ancestry. As a child and young adult I wrestled with ambivalence […]
Super diverse women talk about their lives
Published in the NZ Herald To mark its launch, Super Diverse Women commissioned a survey of almost 300 New Zealanders to assess their experiences of discrimination and diversity. Here are a selection of (anonymous) quotes from their responses. Maori • I […]
Mai Chen: Super diverse women are the future
Published in the NZ Herald This week sees the launch of a new organisation dedicated to championing the rights and achievements of women from indigenous and migrant backgrounds. Super Diverse Women has more than 100 foundation members, many of them […]
A leading constitutional law expert says New Zealand’s laws need to be overhauled in the wake an ugly incident of racial abuse filmed in Waikato that was directed at a Muslim-New Zealand woman.
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Mai Chen: Multiple Ground Discrimination
Published by the New Zealand Law Society in LawTalk. A 21st century necessity. A new report by the Superdiversity Centre for Law, Policy and Business, to be published on or before February 2017, examines the need for an intersectional approach […]
Mai Chen: Complex culture demands agile thinking
Since releasing the Superdiversity Stocktake: Implications for Law, Policy and Business last November, (downloaded now over 130,000 times), I have realised the need to refresh what the word “diversity” means in 21st century New Zealand.
Law firm leaders are Women of Influence
“I knew I had been nominated [for the Women of Influence Awards], but I didn’t expect to get selected as a finalist,” Chen Palmer partner Marina Matthews told LawTalk.