As tens of thousands of marchers crowded the streets, the throng of people with flags had the air of a festival rather than a ...

The marchers oppose a law that would reshape the county’s founding treaty between the nation’s Maori people and the British ...

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 ...

This has not stopped opponents, including white New Zealanders and Maori New Zealanders, from warning about the bill's potential consequences, which they say are emblematic of a rightward shift in ...

some struck up Maori songs that most New Zealanders learn at school. A sea of Maori sovereignty flags in red, black and white stretched down the lawn and into the streets. But marchers bore Samoan ...

People crammed themselves onto the children’s slide on the lawn for a vantage point; others perched in trees. The tone was almost joyful; as people waited to leave the cramped area, some struck up ...