Minister's update - May 2018
Ramadan has well and truly begun, with the first glimpse of the crescent moon on 16 May.
MOKAA: The Land of Opportunity
The Office of Ethnic Communities is proud to have funded ‘MOKAA: The Land of Opportunity - 125 years of Indians in Aotearoa’.
Surinder Tandon: Role model for active citizenship
Dr Surinder Tandon received the insignia of a member of the New Zealand Order of Merit (NZOM) for services to the community, and in the field of textile science
Meet the Office of Ethnic Communities newest member
Kia ora. My name is Mohamud Mohamed and I recently joined the Office of Ethnic Communities team as a Diversity & Engagement Advisor in Auckland.
15 years on: Maintaining language and faith in Christchurch
15 years ago, Ibrahim Abdelhalim and his wife Salwa started the annual Arabic language and Qur'an competition in Christchurch.
Auckland Agency Group: Enabling a great international student experience
Each year, 130,000 international students representing 140 nationalities choose to study in New Zealand. Of these, 80,000 live in the Auckland region.
Looking for poems by writers with a migrant/former refugee background
Landing Press, a small Wellington publisher, is inviting migrant and former refugee poets to send in their work for a collection to be published in October 2018
Suffrage 125 spotlight: ChangeMakers Refugee Forum, a conversation with Naomi Tocher
This year we celebrate New Zealand’s 125th anniversary of women receiving the right to vote.
A focus on smaller communities
The Office of Ethnic Communities has had a long-standing relationship with many ethnic communities in Aotearoa New Zealand.