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Mike O'Brien: Poverty and violence

25 Nov 2006
Associate Professor Mike O'Brien told today's Pacific Women's Watch conference that poverty is violent in its effects on children's lives.
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Unlawful discrimination by the government and public actors: options for redress under the Human Rights Act

13 Oct 2006
A presentation to the Child and Youth Welfare Advisers Conference by Catherine Rodgers, Assistant Director of Human Rights Proceedings, Office of Human Rights Proceedings
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Family assistance must support a decent and fair start in life

10 Oct 2006
Susan St John spoke this week in Wellington about CPAG's legal case to the Human Rights Review Tribunal. "Policy must provide for adequate child-related payments to support low family incomes, as an essential part of ensuring that all children have a decent and fair start in life," Dr St John says.
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Mike O'Brien: Benefits and Barriers

11 Aug 2006
This paper by Associate-Professor O'Brien looks at the proposed core benefit changes, and their implications for today's "forgotten people." It was presented to a New Zealand Council of Christian Social Services conference, "Poverty in Prosperity".
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Innes Asher - Child Poverty: Where to from here?

26 Jul 2006
Innes Asher outlined the way ahead for action on child poverty in terms of poverty measurement, income measures, health, housing and education, speaking at the Every Chld Counts forum in Wellington.
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Martin Thrupp powerpoint: lifting the schooling chances of our poorest children

24 Jul 2006
Special guest speaker Prof Martin Thrupp is a specialist in the social policy aspects of education from the University of Waikato. This is his powerpoint presentation to AGM 06.
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Martin Thrupp to CPAG AGM: lifting the schooling chances of our poorest children

24 Jul 2006
Special guest speaker Prof Martin Thrupp is a specialist in the social policy aspects of education from the University of Waikato.
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Innes Asher: Address underlying reasons for poor child health

24 Mar 2006
Child health outcomes in New Zealand are poor, due in part to policy neglect, Professor Innes Asher of the University of Auckand's Paediatrics Department told the Hospital Play Association of Aotearoa/NZ
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