Maori leaders accused New Zealand's government of carrying out an "unrelenting assault" on Indigenous rights as the Waitangi ...
The government has agreed to amend references to the Treaty of Waitangi across 19 pieces of legislation. Justice Minister ...
WELLINGTON, New Zealand — It's often a day marked by spirited politics and at times boisterous protest. But Thursday's anniversary of New Zealand's founding document, the Treaty of Waitangi, passed in ...
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand lawmakers dealt an overwhelming defeat Thursday to a controversial proposed law seeking to redefine the country’s founding treaty between Māori tribes and ...
New Zealand’s right-wing coalition government—which consists of the National Party, the nationalist NZ First Party and the libertarian ACT Party—is ramping up its efforts to stoke racial divisions and ...
The Waitangi Tribunal has found the Crown breached treaty principles by deciding to downgrade Treaty of Waitangi obligations in the education system without meaningfully engaging with Māori. In an ...
New Zealand’s coalition government has introduced legislation to define the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi, the 1840 agreement between indigenous Māori and the British Crown that is considered ...