28 Jan Treaty’s status needs review – commission (The New Zealand Herald)
The Human Rights Commission is renewing calls to consider entrenching the Treaty of Waitangi as part of a wider review aimed at improving the human rights of Maori. The recommendation is part of a proposed five-year action plan to 2015 that the commission is seeking submissions on. Entrenching the Treaty was last debated in the lead-up to the passage of the 1990 Bill of Rights Act, but Race Relations Commissioner Joris de Bres said two decades on, it was time to re-examine constitutional arrangements… go to article