The ACT Party fought to have a Treaty of Waitangi clause stripped out of amended education legislation - but was overruled.

The Waitangi Tribunal has officially accepted Ngāti Ruanui’s claim challenging the fast‑tracking of seabed mining approvals ...

The Waitangi Tribunal has granted iwi a hearing into the way the Fast-track Approvals Act has been used to seek approval to mine the seabed off Pātea. Trans-Tasman Resources (TTR) has applied under ...

The United States has not yet ratified the treaty and will not do so during the conference, Rebecca Hubbard, director of The High Seas Alliance, said. French President Emmanuel Macron, the ...

The fate of the three Te Pāti Māori MPs who performed a haka during the vote on the first reading of the Principles of Treaty of Waitangi Bill last November was decided on Thursday, following a long, ...

New Delhi, June 6 (PTI) India is not in a hurry to ratify the High Seas Treaty, a global agreement for the protection and sustainable use of marine biological diversity in international waters, amid a ...

The three MPs performed the haka last November in parliament ahead of a vote on a bill, now defeated, that would have reinterpreted the 185-year-old Treaty of Waitangi, which was signed between ...

The New Zealand legislators on Thursday voted to enact record suspensions from Parliament for three lawmakers who performed a Māori haka to protest a proposed law, reported AP. According to the ...

The protest was sparked by the Treaty Principles Bill, which sought to redefine the principles of New Zealand’s founding document, the Treaty of Waitangi. The bill, which was widely criticised for ...

New Zealand legislators suspended three Māori lawmakers on June 5 after they performed a Haka, a chanting dance of challenge. The lawmakers aimed to protest a bill that could endanger Indigenous ...

It is not about the Treaty of Waitangi. It is about following the rules of Parliament, that we are all obliged to follow and that we all pledge to follow.” Even Speaker of the House Gerry Brownlee, ...

The three performed the haka last November ahead of a vote on a bill that would have reinterpreted the 185-year-old Treaty of Waitangi between the British and Indigenous Māori that still guides ...