Female Members of Parliament in New Zealand are being assaulted with weapons, threatened with rape and subjected to death threats in the course of their work, a study led by the University of Otago, Wellington—Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka, Pōneke has found.
Abuse of NZ female MPs is commonplace, researchers find
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