{"id":67776,"date":"2024-11-12T12:59:16","date_gmt":"2024-11-12T03:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/nov\/12\/new-zealand-apology-chrisopher-luxon-abuse-in-religious-care-institutions"},"modified":"2024-11-12T12:59:16","modified_gmt":"2024-11-12T03:59:16","slug":"new-zealand-offers-unreserved-apology-to-200000-survivors-of-horrific-abuse-in-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=67776","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand offers \u2018unreserved\u2019 apology to 200,000 survivors of \u2018horrific\u2019 abuse in care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Historic apology by PM Christopher Luxon comes after landmark report that exposed decades of abuse in state and faith-based care institutions<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand\u2019s prime minister Christopher Luxon has formally apologised to the more than 200,000 children and adults who suffered \u201chorrific\u201d and \u201cheartbreaking\u201d abuse and neglect while in state and faith-based institutions.<\/p>\n<p>The historic apology follows a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jul\/24\/new-zealand-royal-commission-abuse-state-religious-care-report-ntwnfb\">harrowing landmark report<\/a>, released in July, which laid bare the scale of abuse that occurred across care institutions from the 1950s onwards. It was the most complex royal commission inquiry the country has held. The judge who chaired the inquiry, Coral Shaw, described the abuse as a \u201cnational disgrace and shame\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/nov\/12\/new-zealand-apology-chrisopher-luxon-abuse-in-religious-care-institutions\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Historic apology by PM Christopher Luxon comes after landmark report that exposed decades of abuse in state and faith-based care institutionsNew Zealand\u2019s prime minister Christopher Luxon has formally apologised to the more than 200,000 children and ad&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2286,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-new-zealand"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2286"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67776"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67777,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67776\/revisions\/67777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}