A controversy is brewing in New Zealand, as thousands of Kiwis recently took to the streets to protest a bill that would legally define the country's founding treaty — a change that opponents ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Critics view the bill, introduced by the ACT Party, as an attempt to dismantle government support for the Maori population. Thousands of protesters marched through New Zealand's capital Wellington ...

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 ...

Many critics of the bill -- including some of New Zealand's most respected lawyers -- see it as an attempt to strip long-agreed rights from the country's 900,000 strong Maori population. "It's not ...

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 ...