Activists are protesting proposed changes to New Zealand's foundational document, the Treaty of Waitangi. But is the bill ...

Act, the political party that introduced the bill, argues there is a need to legally define the principles of the 1840 Treaty ...

Controversial legislation revises the 184-year-old Treaty of Waitangi granting Maori tribes land rights. Thousands of people have joined a nine-day march towards New Zealand’s capital over a ...

New Zealand’s parliament was briefly suspended on Thursday after Maori members staged a haka to disrupt the vote on a ...

New Zealand's parliament engages in a heated debate over a controversial bill attempting to reinterpret the Treaty of ...

The Principles of the Treaty of Waitangi Bill will likely die after it goes to select committee – or will it? A possible ...

In a dramatic showdown, New Zealand's parliament saw a vote suspended and two lawmakers ejected as tensions flared over a ...

"The government's own lawyers recognise the bill would at first blush undermine Māori people's rights," a law professor says.

The 1840 agreement between indigenous Māori and the British Crown is considered the nation’s founding document.

The Treaty of Waitangi was signed in 1840 between the British Crown and more than 500 Maori chiefs. It paved the way for British annexation of New Zealand while requiring the Crown to protect Maori ...

In a dramatic display of protest, New Zealand MPs performed the traditional Maori haka in Parliament, halting proceedings ...

The Hīkoi mō te Tiriti (March for the Treaty of Waitangi), organised by Te Pāti Māori-aligned advocacy group Toitū te Tiriti, ...