Human Rights Commission gives NZ mixed report card on indigenous rights at United Nations Human Rights Commission gives NZ mixed report card on indigenous rights at United Nations

Human Rights Commission gives NZ mixed report card on indigenous rights at United Nations

Thursday, July 27th, 2023

The Human Rights Commission has filed a mixed report card to the United Nations on New Zealand’s commitment to indigenous rights.

Addressing a UN expert group in Geneva the commission’s Kaitahutahu Rangatahi, Waimihia Maniapoto-Love said there have been periods of good progress towards tino rangatiratanga alongside periods of inactivity.

The Government, the National Iwi Chairs Forum and the commission jointly set about developing a national action plan to implement the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People – or UNDRIP, in 2019. Read more

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