カテゴリー: Indigenous peoples
Since 1975, Māori have been able to reclaim land through a tribunal – but its reach is limited and now they are exploring other optionsTwo years ago, a small pocket of land three kilometres from Auckland’s international airport became the most prominen…
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Ashley Bloomfield urges everyone to be kind amid rise in online abuse after outbreak at Auckland church service that took place before lockdownSee all our coronavirus coverageNew Zealand’s director general of health has condemned “gutless” racism again…
Regional hub in New Plymouth – built on land seized from Māori in 1960 – is up against the likes of New York’s LaGuardia for Unesco’s Prix Versailles A tiny regional airport in New Zealand that weaves a Māori story of love and longing into its architec…
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UN human rights experts decry arrests and evictions of ethnic Karen from Kaeng Krachan national parkUN human rights experts have urged Unesco not to grant World Heritage Site status to a national park in Thailand, where they said Indigenous people are …
The island’s Indigenous people are in a race against time to save their native tongues before they are lost foreverIn a modest conference room near the edge of Taiwan’s Sun Moon Lake, Panu Kapamumu holds up an unwieldy A3 booklet. The home-printed docu…
Activists were shot and beaten at demonstration to stop property giant Bahria Town building on indigenous land they say was taken with forceMuhammad Anwar was not aware of any danger when he took the day off work to join his friends at a demonstration …
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Thousands of blazes in Similipal national park threaten indigenous peoples and wildlife such as tigers, elephants and orchidsAs the flames move fast, snaking quickly upwards in the treacherous terrain of Similipal national park and turning everything o…
Jacinda Ardern had pledged to make Matariki a holiday in the 2020 election; it will be celebrated for the first time on 24 June 2022New Zealand’s prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, has fulfilled her election promise of making the Māori new year celebratio…
Three years after the prime minister asked Māori to hold her to account, many are disillusioned with her governmentIn an oft-repeated story New Zealand’s prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, has recalled how growing up in the small, largely Māori town of Mu…
The New Zealand foreign minister’s moko has become international news, but beyond an identifier, our tatau are a link to ancestors, a vessel for our cultures’ stories, and a tribute to those who have gone beforeShortly before my interview with six Euro…
The Goldman environmental prize honours the achievements of grassroots activists in six continents, recognising their efforts to protect natural habitats and push for political change, often at great personal riskPlastic in paradise: Goldman prize winn…
New foreign minister promises to carve a path for women, Māori and for the countryWhen Jacinda Ardern appointed the veteran politician Nanaia Mahuta as New Zealand’s foreign minister, many seasoned political watchers were taken by surprise – as was Mah…