Tens of thousands of people gathered outside New Zealand's Parliament in the nation's capital city of Wellington to protest a bill that aims to redefine the country's founding treaty between the Māori and the British Crown. The protest, over a proposed ...

Prompted by a surging Māori protest movement, for the past 50 years the courts of New Zealand, lawmakers and the Waitangi Tribunal -– a permanent body set up to adjudicate treaty matters -– have navigated the differences in the treaty’s versions and tried to redress breaches by constructing the meaning of the treaty's principles in their decisions.