Goal: Demand financial compensation and mental health aid for victims of abuse in state-run hospitals and orphanages. Over 250,000 children and minors suffered years of abuse at the hands of hospital and orphanage staff members, according to a report released by New Zealand’s Royal Commission of Inquiry. The children, who ranged in age between nine months and 17 years, were placed in psychiatric facilities, care homes, and religiously-affiliated orphanages and hospitals from the 1960s to the early 21st century. There, many were subjected to sexual assault, rape, torture, and racial and verbal abuse from the staff entrusted with their care. Particularly vulnerable were children from New Zealand’s Indigenous Māori groups. The Commission found that as much as 81% of the victims were Māori, who were targeted by clergy and other staff in an effort to strip them of their cultural identity through systematic abuse.