Distressing content warning. This statement was read on behalf of the Human Rights Commission by Disability Rights Commissioner, Ms Paula Tesoriero.

Distressing content warning. Presentation starts at 06:30. Presentation starts at 04:30. Evidence from Sonja Cooper and Amanda Hill on behalf of Cooper Legal addressed:. The beginnings of the civil claims against the State for abuse in psychiatric

Distressing content warning. Presentation starts at 00:00:25. As a freelance investigative journalist and photographer, and with lived experience of state intervention having been adopted and raised outside of his natural whānau, Mr Smale (Ngāti

Distressing content warning. Keith Wiffin went into state care at the age of 10 after the death of his father. He was sexually abused while at Epuni Boys’ home in the 1970s, and describes the many other forms of abuse he witnessed at Epuni. His

Distressing content warning. Mr Taito gave evidence about his experience as a Samoan New Zealander being removed from his family as a child following intervention by the State. He was made a state ward and sent to Owairaka Boys’ Home in the 1970s

Distressing content warning. Moana Jackson CRSNZ (10 October 1945 – 31 March 2022) was a New Zealand lawyer specialising in constitutional law, the Treaty of Waitangi and international indigenous issues. He was an advocate and activist for Māori

Distressing content warning. Mr Taylor has spent 40 of his 63 years in prison. He gave evidence about being violently removed from his family by child welfare officers and taken into State care at only 11 years for being “NUPC” – not under

Distressing content warning. Presentation start at 07:15. Mr Ledingham gave evidence about the abuse he and his two brothers experienced at the hands of a priest while students at St Joseph’s Catholic School in Onehunga (as detailed more fully in

Distressing content warning. Presentation starts at 18:00. At the time of the hearing Ms Noonan was the Director of the New Zealand Centre for Human Rights Law, Policy and Practice. She also worked with national human rights institutions across Asia

Distressing content warning. Presentation starts at 15:20. Ms Calman suffered physical and sexual abuse and neglect early on in life while growing up in her family home. While she first came to State notice in approximately May 1961, it took six