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"New Zealand’s Catholic Church formally apologised on Friday to the survivors of abuse within the church and said its systems and culture must change," says this article from Reuters. According to the article, "an interim report by the Commission in December found up to a quarter of a million children, young people and vulnerable adults were physically and sexually abused in New Zealand’s faith-based and state care institutions from the 1960s to early 2000s."
"A group representing survivors of abuse while in faith-based care [in New Zealand] believes victims could die before there is any satisfactory resolution to their claims against churches," says this article from RNZ. "The Network of Survivors of Abuse in Faith-based institutions wants an independent authority set up immediately to deal with claims for redress," the article continues. A spokesperson for the group is calling on the Abuse in Care Royal Commission to make a recommendation for an independent resolution service to be established urgently.
A United Nations report calls for an independent inquiry into the abuse of children in state care in New Zealand 1950-1990.
Dame Susan Devoy from the Human Rights Commission has appealed to a UN committee to hold an inquiry into child abuse in New Zealand's state institutions between the 1950s and 1990s.