Waitangi Tribunal

British  

noun

1. (in New Zealand) a government tribunal empowered to examine and make recommendations on Māori claims under the Treaty of Waitangi

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Example Sentences

Associated legislation and institutions such as the Waitangi Tribunal - which hears cases claiming breaches of Māori rights as stated in the treaty - have reclaimed for many Māori people land title and fishing rights which have given them a degree of capital far beyond what indigenous Australian groups have.

From BBC

An advisory committee - the Waitangi Tribunal - has also been in place since 1975 to make sure Māoris have a say in the policies that affect them.

From BBC

The Waitangi Tribunal was set up in 1975 to provide a legal process by which Māori claims of breaches of the country’s founding document, the Treaty of Waitangi, could be investigated and findings contribute to the resolution of outstanding issues between Māori and the Crown.

From The Guardian

A 600-page Waitangi Tribunal report released last August criticised the government’s Resource Management Act for allowing “a serious degradation of water to occur in many ancestral water bodies”.

From The Guardian

In 2014, the Te Paparahi o Te Raki Inquiry of the Waitangi Tribunal in Aotearoa/New Zealand – a truth and justice-seeking commission founded in direct response to the 1970s Māori Renaissance – found that the Ngāpuhi iwi, the largest tribe in New Zealand, never gave up their sovereignty.

From The Guardian