New Zealand's leaders formally apologize to survivors of abuse in state and church care

New Zealand’s Prime Minister Christopher Luxon issued a formal apology in Parliament for the widespread abuse, torture, and neglect of 200,000 children and vulnerable adults in state care, many of them Indigenous, over seven decades. The inquiry, the largest ever in New Zealand, revealed that nearly a third of 650,000 individuals in care from 1950 to 2019 endured abuse, with a disproportionate number being Maori. Luxon’s government acknowledged the historical mistreatment as torture and pledged an apology and financial compensation to all those affected.

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