Post by Kiwi Frontline on May 13, 2017 17:25:23 GMT 12
HUMAN RIGHTS TRIBUNAL RULES FAIRFAX CARTOONS 'NOT UNLAWFUL'
Provocative cartoons published by Fairfax Media did not breach the Human Rights Act, a tribunal has found.
Labour MP Louisa Wall took the publisher and its papers, The Press and the Marlborough Express, to the Human Rights Tribunal over two cartoons that it published in 2013 about the government's breakfast in schools programme.
Read the full ruling – which includes copies of the cartoons (pp 55-56) here > tinyurl.com/l4m8c9j
Ms Wall argued they were insulting and ignorant towards Māori and Pacific peoples.
However, the tribunal ruled that the cartoons were lawful, as they were unlikely to "cause hostility against or bring into contempt" Māori and Pasifika....
www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/330667/human-rights-tribunal-rules-fairfax-cartoons-%27not-unlawful%27
Provocative cartoons published by Fairfax Media did not breach the Human Rights Act, a tribunal has found.
Labour MP Louisa Wall took the publisher and its papers, The Press and the Marlborough Express, to the Human Rights Tribunal over two cartoons that it published in 2013 about the government's breakfast in schools programme.
Read the full ruling – which includes copies of the cartoons (pp 55-56) here > tinyurl.com/l4m8c9j
Ms Wall argued they were insulting and ignorant towards Māori and Pacific peoples.
However, the tribunal ruled that the cartoons were lawful, as they were unlikely to "cause hostility against or bring into contempt" Māori and Pasifika....
www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/330667/human-rights-tribunal-rules-fairfax-cartoons-%27not-unlawful%27