New Zealand’s government plans to have 1 million Kiwis speaking basic te reo – the language of New Zealand’s indigenous Maori population – by 2040. There are also calls to make the ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. More than 40,000 people marched on the New Zealand capital this week, in a show of anger at a proposed ...

More than 35 000 people joined a protest in Wellington, one of New Zealand's biggest for some time. They were opposing a draft law to alter the 184-year-old Treaty of Waitang. Many see it as an ...

As they made their way south towards the capital, Wellington, they were greeted by hundreds of supporters waving the Maori flag, the New Zealand police said. The march - or hikoi in the Maori ...

A fight for Maori rights drew 42,000 protesters to the New Zealand Parliament in the capital Wellington on Tuesday. A nine-day-long hikoi, or peaceful march – a tradition of the Maori – was ...

Tens of thousands have rallied outside New Zealand’s Parliament to protest against a bill that critics say would hurt the rights of Maori people. An estimated 42,000 people demonstrated on ...

Tens of thousands of people have marched on New Zealand's parliament in a protest in support of Maori rights. The huge crowds took to the streets of Wellington in opposition to a law that could ...

Tens of thousands of people have marched to New Zealand's parliament calling for the rights of the indigenous Maori people to be protected. Traditional chants echoed in the capital on Tuesday.

Notably, no members of the Maori community were consulted for the proposed bill, which could have a reverberating impact on the 20 percent of New Zealand's population that identify as Maori.

Sanka Vidanagama/AFP/AFP Booming Indigenous Maori "haka" chants rang out across New Zealand's capital on Tuesday, as tens of thousands rallied against a conservative push to redefine the nation's ...

An estimated 42,000 people attended the march Credit: SANKA VIDANAGAMA/AFP Ngira Simmonds, a key advisor to New Zealand’s Maori Queen, told news agency AFP: “It’s not the best way to have a ...