Why this is important. “It's only through revealing past abuses that as a society
we understand what we need to do to protect children, now and in our future
generations, and keep them safe.”
Cathy Kezelman,
President of Adults Surviving Child Abuse (ASCA)
Help New Zealand’s historic institutional abuse survivors to
seek truth and justice and to protect future generations of children who
are entrusted to State care.
Between the years 1950 - 1990 approximately 200,000 (190,620) New Zealand children were in State care. This number is not insignificant when considering New Zealand’s population was just short of 2 million in 1950 and 3.3 million in 1990. Many of the 200,000 children in State care during these years were subjected to physical, psychological and/or sexual abuse. The legacy of this abuse has lasted throughout their lives.
https://secure.avaaz.org/en/petition/The_New_Zealand_Government_Launch_a_Royal_Commission_into_Instituional_historical_child_abuse/?nQggifb
Between the years 1950 - 1990 approximately 200,000 (190,620) New Zealand children were in State care. This number is not insignificant when considering New Zealand’s population was just short of 2 million in 1950 and 3.3 million in 1990. Many of the 200,000 children in State care during these years were subjected to physical, psychological and/or sexual abuse. The legacy of this abuse has lasted throughout their lives.
https://secure.avaaz.org/en/petition/The_New_Zealand_Government_Launch_a_Royal_Commission_into_Instituional_historical_child_abuse/?nQggifb
