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 ...

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 ...

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 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.

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 ...

But it has been decades since race relations were so fractious in New Zealand, a country known for its relative harmony. It ...

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 ...

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 ...

Haka chants rang out during the demonstration in Wellington on Tuesday - Mark Tantrum/AP Tens of thousands of people have marched on New Zealand’s capital against a bill to redefine Maori rights ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (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 ...

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 ...