Tens of thousands rally at New Zealand parliament against bill to alter Indigenous rights
By Lucy Craymer and Lewis Jackson WELLINGTON (Reuters) -Tens of thousands of New Zealanders rallied in front of parliament on Tuesday in one of the country's largest ever protests to oppose a bill, which opponents say seeks to dilute the rights of Maori and threatens to set race relations back decades.
Tens of thousands march to New Zealand parliament to protest controversial Māori treaty bill – live
Nine-day march across New Zealand culminates in Wellington as huge numbers gather to protest bill that opponents say seeks to dilute Māori rights.   00:58 David Seymour, whose minor libertarian Act party introduced the bill that the hīkoi is protesting,
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More than 35,000 New Zealanders rally at parliament in support of Maori rights
Tens of thousands of New Zealanders gathered outside the parliament in one of the country’s largest demonstrations to oppose the Treaty Principles Bill, which critics say undermines Maori rights and threatens race relations.
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Thousands of marchers descended upon New Zealand’s largest city of Auckland on Wednesday as part of the Hīkoi mō te Tiriti (March for the Treaty of Waitangi) to call for Māori (New Zealand’s
New Zealand's indigenous Maori people march against Treaty Principles Bill
Thousands of people have joined a nine-day march to New Zealand's capital, Wellington, to protest a contentious bill that redefines the country's founding agreement between the British and the Indigenous Maori people,
United Voices: New Zealand's Largest Maori Rights March
In Wellington, New Zealand, tens of thousands gathered in a peaceful protest opposing a law affecting the Treaty of Waitangi, which would reshuffle its principles and affect Maori rights. The protest highlighted the resurgence of Indigenous identity and the growing non-Maori support for Maori sovereignty.
Tens of thousands march in New Zealand Maori rights protest
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 founding treaty.
New Zealand's founding treaty is at a flashpoint. Why are thousands protesting for Māori rights?
More than 35,000 people have arrived at New Zealand’s Parliament in protest of a proposed law that would redefine the country’s founding agreement between Indigenous Māori and the British Crown
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