Professor Claire Charters in the media
• Actions by new government will make NZ fall behind as ‘world leader in Indigenous rights’ – scholar
Indigenous rights scholar and activist Professor Claire Charters told Te Ao Māori News she hopes the government will listen to Māori and “heed our concerns and our fears and our advice about the policies that have been coming out since the election of this new government”.
• Claire Charters: Let’s imagine a new constitution
Aotearoa is one of only a few countries without a written constitution. As a result, we have some of the weakest protections of minorities in the world, Professor Claire Charters told E-Tangata. Read the full interview.
• Impact of the loss of Māori Health Authority
“The government of the day has a duty under te Tiriti o Waitangi and through our international human rights agreements to ensure, at the very least, a partnership-based approach to decisions which affect Māori,” Professor Claire Charters, in her role as Human Rights Commission Rongomau Taketake, told Rotorua Now.
•Te Tiriti principles
Professor Claire Charters was a guest on ABC’s Law Report podcast regarding concern over the New Zealand government’s plan to wind back the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi.
•Sliding backwards on human rights
New Zealand has recognised international human rights laws since signing a UN declaration 75 years ago, but that doesn’t mean we’re great at upholding them. Professor Claire Charters discussed the issue on RNZ’s The Detail podcast.
•A breakdown of the issues at the centre of Māori protests in New Zealand
Professor Charters spoke with NPR about the coalition government’s plans to review te Tiriti, close the Māori Health Authority, curb the use of Māori language in government organisations and other policy changes.
•He Puapua and government opposition
95bFM interviewed Professor Claire Charters, who said she wasn’t sure the National-led coalition government’s plan to terminate all work on He Puapua was doing anything.
•‘A massive unravelling’: fears for Māori rights as New Zealand government reviews treaty
Claire Charters discussed the benefits of self-determination in a Guardian article.
•Protest an option as treaty principles revised
Māori may have no other option than to protest against the government's proposed policy changes, Claire Charters told Waatea News.
•Nelson land case an example for other Indigenous peoples
Professor Claire Charters was involved with Wakatu’s Supreme Court case in 2017 and she told RNZ that Wakatu’s efforts are an example for indigenous peoples worldwide to assert their rights and reclaim their cultural heritage.