Professor Claire Charters in the media
- Māori academic says Te Tiriti o Waitangi relevant for Pasifika people
6 February 2025
Today marks 185 years since the signing of the Te Tiriti (or Treaty of Waitangi in English) in Aotearoa and Professor Claire Charters (Ngāti Whakaue, Tūwharetoa, Ngā Puhi, Tainui) talks to RNZ Pacific Waves. Listen to the interview.
- Explained: The Treaty Principles Bill
14 November 2024
What is it and why is it causing such a massive backlash? Will it re-write the actual Treaty of Waitangi? Erase Māori rights? Or is it a storm in a teacup? In this article on Stuff, Explainer Editor Lloyd Burr breaks it down.
- Nelson hapu celebrating after major court victory
1 November 2024
The descendants of customary Māori landowners in Nelson are celebrating a hard won victory in the High Court, after an interim ruling found they are entitled to thousands of hectares of Crown land and millions of dollars in compensation. Read the article.
- On the Linkage Between Indigenous Rights and Democracy
2 September 2024
Professor Claire Charters read and commented on a recent EJIL article on progressive treaty-drafting, recognizing Māori representation on the international trade plane.
- Sovereignty debate sees major parties weighing in for first time
30 August 2024
Professor Claire Charters, on the RNZ Focus on Politics podcast, said the te reo Māori version of Te Tiriti will always take precedence in the law.
- Māori rights to face global spotlight as UN send special envoy to Aotearoa
20 March 2024
Te Puna Rangahau o Wai Ariki (University of Auckland’s Centre for Indigenous Peoples and the Law) director Professor Claire Charters calls those cases a serious miscarriage of justice and says it shows how Parliament can override the rights of indigenous people. Read the Te Ao News article.
- Human Rights and Indigenous Rights in New Zealand
15 March 2024
On this episode of Justice Matters, co-host Mathias Risse talks with Claire Charters, who was recently named in the role of Rongomau Taketake to lead work on the Te Kāhui Tika Tangata Human Rights Commission in Aotearoa/New Zealand
- Claire Charters: Let’s imagine a new constitution
7 April 2024
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.
- Te Tiriti principles
23 January 2024
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.
- He Puapua and government opposition
22 December 2023
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.
- New Zealand’s Indigenous Māori in a battle for their rights
17 December 2023
This episode of Al Jazeera English The Take Podcast features Professor Claire Charters.
- Actions by new government will make NZ fall behind as ‘world leader in Indigenous rights’ – scholar
12 December 2023
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”.
- Human Rights Commission stands by shared leader appointment
12 December 2023
The Human Rights Commission’s indigenous rights spokeswoman, Auckland University Law Professor Claire Charters, says any move to axe a new co-chief executive position would fly in the face our international human rights obligations. Read the article.
- NZ Sliding backwards on human rights
11 December 2023
On The Detail, Wilhelmina Shrimpton looks at the declaration, what it means for us, and the areas where we are falling down - as the new government plans to change the inner workings of the Human Rights Commission, and its coalition partner ACT declares it should be abolished all together.
- A breakdown of the issues at the centre of Māori protests in New Zealand
8 December 2023
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.
- ‘A massive unravelling’: fears for Māori rights as New Zealand government reviews treaty
1 December 2023
Professor Claire Charters discussed the benefits of self-determination in a Guardian article.
- Protest an option as treaty principles revised
30 November 2023
Māori may have no other option than to protest against the government's proposed policy changes, Professor Claire Charters told Waatea News.
- Poll finds majority believe te Tiriti applies to everyone
23 November 2023
Professor Claire Charters talks with Corin Dann on Morning Report. Listen to the RNZ interview.
- Voice to Parliament Australia – how indigenous peoples in Aotearoa NZ were used by both sides of the referendum campaign and how the result may impact indigenous rights in Aotearoa and internationally
13 November 2023
Christchurch City Libraries blog hosts a series of regular podcasts from specialist human rights radio show Speak up - Kōrerotia. Listen to the podcast.
- NZ's longest-running property dispute heads back to court
14 August 2023
Professor Claire Charters spoke to Ingrid Hipkiss on RNZ Morning Report.
- Nelson land case an example for other Indigenous peoples
5 August 2023
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.
- Rongomau Taketake comment on human rights impacts for Māori after Cyclone Gabriel
3 August 2023
Chief Human Rights Commissioner Paul Hunt & Rongomau Taketake Claire Charters visited Cyclone-affected areas last week. Read the article.
- Mixed report card on Indigenous Peoples rights filed to the UN
24 July 2023
Watch the video and read the article on Stuff about the Human Rights Commission mixed report card filed to the United Nations on New Zealand's commitment to indigenous rights.
- Commission reports on progress toward tino rangatiratanga
24 July 2023
Te Kāhui Tika Tangata Human Rights Commission has filed a mixed report card to the United Nations on Aotearoa New Zealand’s commitment to the realisation of Indigenous rights. Read the article on Scoop.
- Matariki is a mark of how far we’ve come and how far we have to travel
14 July 2023
The celebration of Matariki is a tremendous milestone in Aotearoa New Zealand’s history. It signals a turning point. Read the Opinion piece by Professor Claire Charmers on the Stuff and Te Kāhui Tika Tangata Human Rights Commission websites.
- Putting rights on hold
30 April 2023
Speaking to the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues in New York last week, Professor Claire Charters highlighted the delay. Here, she outlines what she told them.
- Advice to president of UN General Assembly on Indigenous peoples’ participation
24 April 2023
The Commission's Rongomau Taketake, Professor Claire Charters, has been advocating for Indigenous peoples participation at the UN. Read how Charters advises President of UN General Assembly on Indigenous participation.
- Māori should be front and centre of climate change and weather disaster responses
10 April 2023
Opinion piece by Professor Claire Charters on the submissions process for the Severe Weather Emergency Recovery Bill.
- Claire Charters renowned indigenous rights expert joins Human Rights Commission
6 March 2023
Te Kāhui Tika Tangata has appointed Professor Claire Charters as Rongomau Taketake to lead work on Indigenous Peoples' rights. Read the article.
- Interview with Peter Williams discussing He Puapua
8 November 2022
Peter Williams is back on Taxpayer Talk with a highly anticipated interview with Professor Claire Charters.
- The Contentious Vote in Chile That Could Transform Indigenous Rights
2 September 2022
The proposed constitution would enshrine some of the world’s most extensive Indigenous rights. But those reforms have become the focal point of the campaign to reject the new text. Read the full interview.
- Interview with Michael Laws discussing He Puapua
2022
Video of Professor Claire Charters interview with Michael Laws on Aotearoa's constitutional structure.
- The Visionaries – interview with Moana Maniapoto and Jacinta Ruru discussing He Puapua – opportunity or threat?
2022
In this video from the Auckland Writers Festival, Working group members, writers and lawyers Professor Claire Charters (Ngāti Whakaue, Tūwharetoa, Ngāpuhi, Tainui) and Jacinta Ruru (Raukawa, Ngāti Ranginui, Ngāti Maniapoto) discuss sovereignty, mātauranga Māori and igniting the imagination, with Moana Maniapoto (Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Te Arawa).
- He Puapua - unity not division
1 July 2021
The Government is preparing to make an announcement today about the He Puapua report. Report co-author Professor Claire Charters told Mike Hosking the discussion doesn't need to be divisive.
- Indigenous People Advance a Dramatic Goal: Reversing Colonialism
17 June 2021
Fifty years of patient advocacy, including the shocking discovery of a mass burial site at Kamloops, have secured once unthinkable gains. Professor Claire Charters discussed the issue on New York Times.
- Disappointment with how He Puapua report has been politicised
4 May 2021
He Puapua author Professor Claire Charters is disappointed with how report has been politicised.
- Incorporating tikanga Māori into a written constitution
26 August 2019
New Zealand doesn't have a single constitutional document, although we do have an unwritten constitution made up of different pieces of legislation. Law professor Claire Charters thinks the status quo isn't fit for purpose and we need a constitution which explicitly recognises iwi rangitiratanga. Listen to the full interview on RNZ for more insights.
- The US can learn a lot from New Zealand on how to embrace indigenous cultures
13 October 2014
In New Zealand, the constitutional narrative is built on the Treaty of Waitangi, writes Fulbright scholar and legal academic Claire Charters in a Guardian article, which means that Māori and state relations are central to New Zealand’s understanding of itself.