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New Zealand’s Shameful Modern Slavery Shutdown

November 20, 2024: | Scoop Independent News | Ian Powell | Slaves had existed in both ancient Greece and the Roman Empire. However, the word ‘slavery’ has a subsequent Latin origin, ‘sclava’, meaning “Slavonic captive in reference to the 9th-century slavery of Slavonic people. Over time it came to mean anyone in captivity,…

Articles, Royal Commission

Letter: The next abuse apology will be for Gloriavale

November 19, 2024: | NZ Herald | D. J. Gates | What about the abuse at Gloriavale? The Government’s recent Abuse in Care apology rings hollow to those in Gloriavale who continue to live under a regime that enforces misogyny, deliberately entraps its young in the remote central West Coast, miseducates its people and is facing a crisis among its…

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Consular officials contact Gloriavale’s Indian community

November 15, 2024: | Greymouth Star | Laura Mills |[Subscription Only] The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade says consular officials have been in touch with the Gloriavale Christian Community outpost in India. In the recent TVNZ ‘docuseries’, Escaping Utopia, former Gloriavale members travelled to India and met a member who moved there…

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The case for reading books about animals wearing clothes

November 14, 2024: | The Spinoff | Claire Mabey | In light of Gloriavale’s reluctant acceptance of Winnie-the-Pooh, Claire Mabey argues in favour of the wider canon of anthropomorphic animal literature. There is nothing more bleak than the banning of books and the curtailment of reading. Control what people read and you control what…

Articles, Legal: Girls' Employment Case

Gloriavale ‘slavery’ claim on path to hearing

November 13, 2024: | The Post | Wellington Court Reporter | Former Gloriavale members have begun refining their claim of “slavery“ as it heads towards a hearing of allegations that the Crown failed to protect them at the closed community. Four people ‒ Anna Courage, Pearl Valor, Gideon Benjamin and Hosea Courage ‒…

Articles, Royal Commission

Abuse in care apology called PR stunt, ‘not genuine’ and ‘tokenistic’ by some survivors

November 12, 2024: | RNZ | Lillian Hanly | Survivors of abuse in care arrived at Parliament today to hear the formal apology from the state which oversaw and inflicted harm on children. Public sector leaders from Oranga Tamariki, the Ministry of Health, New Zealand Police, and Ministry of Education also apologised, as did the…

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AWLA Open letter to the Government – Gloriavale Christian Community

November 12, 2024: | AWLA | Open Letter | AWLA has written an open letter to the Government urging it to take immediate action to address concerns for the health and safety of wāhine and tamariki residing in Gloriavale Christian Community. In December last year, the Government abandoned a Cabinet-mandated joint agency response…

Articles, Videos

Gloriavale leader allegedly admits community ‘used forced labour’

November 11, 2024: | The Press | A recording has emerged of what is believed to be Gloriavale leader Howard Temple allegedly admitting to the community that the Bill of Rights had been breached and that people had been forced to work. The video, leaked to ThreeNews, was recorded in 2022, shortly after some…

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‘God bless’ Winnie-the-Pooh: Gloriavale families cautioned against reading fairy tales, ‘feminist propaganda’

November 7, 2024: | RNZ | Jean Edwards | Gloriavale families have been cautioned against reading fairy tales, books that celebrate Christmas and children’s stories depicting animals dressed in clothes, by a senior leader checking the community’s reading material. In an email sent to members last month and obtained by RNZ, Servant Peter…

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Gloriavale’s banned children’s books: Senior leader’s email lays out rules

November 7, 2024: | NZ Herald | Melissa Nightingale | Lord of the Rings, stories about Christmas and Easter, and nearly all books containing pictures of animals wearing clothes are on the list of reading material considered too “worldly” for Gloriavale’s children. An email leaked from the West Coast Christian community and sent to politicians…

New Zealand’s Shameful Modern Slavery Shutdown

Letter: The next abuse apology will be for Gloriavale

Consular officials contact Gloriavale’s Indian community

The case for reading books about animals wearing clothes

Gloriavale ‘slavery’ claim on path to hearing

Abuse in care apology called PR stunt, ‘not genuine’ and ‘tokenistic’ by some survivors

AWLA Open letter to the Government – Gloriavale Christian Community

Gloriavale leader allegedly admits community ‘used forced labour’

‘God bless’ Winnie-the-Pooh: Gloriavale families cautioned against reading fairy tales, ‘feminist propaganda’

Gloriavale’s banned children’s books: Senior leader’s email lays out rules

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