July 02, 2024
Report to UN claims white supremacism
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A body selected by the National Iwi Chairs Forum has told the United Nations the coalition Government’s policies and legislation are overtly racist and hostile to Māori.
The Aotearoa Independent Monitoring Mechanism has issued its 10th annual report on New Zealand’s compliance with the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
Spokesperson Margaret Mutu says her group had been counting on He Puapua, an independent opinion commissioned by former minister Nanaia Mahuta on ways to implement the declaration, but that report was shelved by Labour and then formally rejected by the incoming coalition.
“The white supremacists and the racists came out and just ashamedly attacked Maori and that’s where you had the government turn its back and now you’ve to this three-headed monster in there that seems to be dictated by David Seymour and the attakcks on Maori are just unprecedented in this country and that’s what’s being reported to the United Nations,” she says.
Professor Mutu says government should be working with the mechanism to compile the annual reports.