Human Rights Commissioner Paul Hunt says New Zealand has a complacency about its human rights issues. Human Rights Commissioner Paul Hunt tells Laura Walters now is the time to focus on the country's shortcomings. Human Rights Commissioner Paul Hunt barely had his feet under the desk when New Zealand changed forever. Now was the time to seriously focus on the country's human rights shortcomings, and have a mature debate about human rights, and the balance between free speech and hate speech, Hunt said. In the wake of the Christchurch terror attack, New Zealand needed to have a proper public discussion about human rights and free speech versus hate speech, he said.

Source: Stuff March 26, 2019 22:07 UTC