NEW ZEALAND: UN committee criticises foreshore bill

Wednesday, March 23, 2005 - 11:00

On March 14, the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination released the reports of its 66^th session, including the judgement that New Zealand's Foreshore and Seabed Act was discriminatory because it extinguished native title over the seabed and foreshore and provided inadequate redress for Maori people. The act was passed last year by a single vote, despite some of the biggest Maori protests in many years. The Labour Party's support for the bill cost it an MP, who resigned rather than support the act.

From Green Left Weekly, March 23, 2005.

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