From the middle of next year Finland will become the first country in the world to incorporate access to broadband into its legislation as a basic human right.

From July next year, every person in Finland will have the right to have access to 1MG broadband connection. The Finnish government is already planning to make access to 100MG broadband a legal requirement by the end of 2015.

Amnesty International is calling on China to take action on human rights violations in Fiji detailed in a report released this morning.

The organisation’s Pacific researcher Apolosi Bose was in Fiji during the military crackdown in April 2009 and his report, Fiji: Paradise Lost, details the interim military government’s repressive tactics against regime opposers.

Those tactics include beatings, arrests and detention, harassment of human rights defenders and limitations on the rights to freedom of expression, opinion and association.

The New Zealand Superannuation Fund has joined a global initiative encouraging better corporate practices, despite holding shares in companies deemed “ethically compromised” by the Green Party.

The Super Fund has announced its commitment to a movement which urges listed companies to embrace international standards on human rights, working conditions, the environment and anti-corruption.

The New Zealand Superannuation Fund has joined a global initiative encouraging better corporate practices, despite holding shares in companies deemed “ethically compromised” by the Green Party.

The Super Fund has announced its commitment to a movement which urges listed companies to embrace international standards on human rights, working conditions, the environment and anti-corruption.