• The Māori Women's Welfare League or Te Rōpū Wāhine Māori Toko I te Ora is a New Zealand welfare organisation focusing on Māori women and children. (wikipedia.org)
  • Aroha remains an ardent spokeswoman for and member of Te Rōpū Wāhine Māori Toko I te Ora o Ōtautahi today. (christchurchcitylibraries.com)
  • They facilitated the formation of League branches around New Zealand and the National Māori Women's Welfare League (Te Rōpū Wāhine Māori Toko I te Ora) was born. (christchurchcitylibraries.com)
  • The inaugural conference of Te Rōpū Wāhine Māori Toko I te Ora was held in Wellington in September, 1951. (christchurchcitylibraries.com)
  • Te Rōpū Wāhine Māori Toko I te Ora o Ōtautahi was one of the first branches of the League to be formed in Te Wai Pounamu. (christchurchcitylibraries.com)
  • In 1952 Te Rōpū Wāhine Māori Toko I te Ora o Ōtautahi was represented at their first National Conference which was held in Auckland. (christchurchcitylibraries.com)
  • Te Timatanga Tātau Tātau Te Ropu Wahine Māori Toko I te Ora: Early Stories from Founding Members of the Māori Women's Welfare League. (komako.org.nz)
  • Te Roopi Wahine Māori Toko I Te Ora: The Māori Women's Welfare League Annual Conference. (komako.org.nz)
  • BRINDLE STYLE was influenced and i nspired by the Maori Women's Welfare League, Te Ropu Wahine Maori Toko i te Ora - and the immersive language programme Kohangareo. (brindlestyle.com)
  • Cheri is a member and a past-president of a local Tainui branch of Te Rōpu Wāhine Māori Toko i te Ora Māori Women's Welfare League and an advisor for up and coming teachers in the Waikato University Teachers Association. (pinnacle.co.nz)
  • The Cancer Society and Hei Āhuru Mōwai collected together signatures from NGOs and individuals on an open letter supporting the establishment of the Māori Health Authority / Te Mana Hauora Māori. (cancer.org.nz)
  • We stand in solidarity with Māori leadership and are united behind the establishment of the Māori Health Authority / Te Mana Hauora Māori. (cancer.org.nz)
  • The establishment of the Māori Health Authority / Te Mana Hauora Māori is central to Te Tiriti o Waitangi and will help ensure everyone has the same access to good health outcomes. (cancer.org.nz)
  • In the 1960s, the women's league developed an afterschool homework program and established Māori language schools. (wikipedia.org)
  • The opening was a celebratory event to which manuhiri travelled from around Aotearoa, excited by the opportunity to view the only known customary Māori sail in existence. (christchurchartgallery.org.nz)
  • In March, pouarataki curator Māori Chloe Cull, was joined by Ranui Ngarimu ONZM (Ngāi Tahu, Kāti Māmoe, Ngāti Mutunga) and Dr Catherine Smith, two members of the research group that has led the project to bring Te Rā to Aotearoa, to talk about what this homecoming means to them. (christchurchartgallery.org.nz)
  • Based at Ngā Whare Waatea marae in Māngere, it is located in the middle of the biggest Māori population in Aotearoa. (waateanews.com)
  • The 1970s also saw the rise of the feminist movement in Aotearoa New Zealand and elsewhere, campaigns against the sexual stereotyping and objectification of women, and significant protest movements in favor of homosexual law reform, abortion law reform and women's liberation. (umich.edu)
  • Maioha' is a project undertaken by the Freemans Bay branch of the NZ Māori Women's Welfare League during 1993, to mark the United Nations Year of Indigenous Peoples and also the centenary of women's suffrage in Aotearoa. (ngataonga.org.nz)
  • Wellington, N.Z.]: Aotearoa Moana nui-a-Kiwa Weavers, the Council for Māori and South Pacific Arts and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, New Zealand, 1986. (komako.org.nz)
  • In this catalogue introduction to the Amokura O Te Māori exhibition, Brown provides a history of raranga and its various adaptations during the Māori migrations to Aotearoa and subsequent European settlement. (komako.org.nz)
  • Women in Aotearoa New Zealand currently tend to be under-represented in governance roles within health and all sectors of the community. (nurses.org.nz)
  • I saw Māori in Rotorua, Tokoroa, Whakatāne, and Ōpōtiki, and then in smaller, more mysterious places like Nukuhou, with its roadside marae and the kehua I felt at my nape driving through Tāneatua where a puppy trotted loose in the rain. (citygallery.org.nz)
  • especially when it comes to Māori determining what happens on their own marae. (teaonews.co.nz)
  • The aunties are members of the Omaka Marae's Māori Women's Welfare League and are the drive behind Manaaki, the condiment range produced on the marae. (thisnzlife.co.nz)
  • The aunties hope there will soon be profits from Manaaki sales to go into various programmes around the marae, including a gym, a kaupapa Māori after-school programme called Pā Kids, and a new million-dollar bilingual unit. (thisnzlife.co.nz)
  • A report of the 29th Māori Women's Welfare League annual conference which was held at Wairaka Marae in the eastern Bay of Plenty, in May 1981 and hosted by Mataatua, Ngāti Awa and Tuhoe. (komako.org.nz)
  • Brown provides a report of three weaving groups from the Tairawhiti region: Nukutere Weaving Group, a Māori Women's Welfare group Turanganui a kiwa, and Manatu at the Manatu Marae. (komako.org.nz)
  • Formed in 1951 in Wellington, following the mass movement of Māori from rural to urban New Zealand, the league's original goal was to preserve Māori culture through their native arts and crafts while also promoting fellowship and cooperation among various women's organizations. (wikipedia.org)
  • Ans Westra and James Ritchie, Maori (Wellington: A.H. and A.W. Reed, 1967). (citygallery.org.nz)
  • WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) - A rebellious New Zealand Maori tribe entered into negotiations with the government Thursday in a bid to gain autonomy over its land. (blogspot.com)
  • Aroha Reriti-Crofts C.B.E., J.P. (Ngāi Tahu) joined the Ōtautahi Māori Women's Welfare League in 1968 and served as secretary of her branch in the 1970s. (christchurchcitylibraries.com)
  • In response to evidence in the 1970s that Māori was becoming an endangered language, Māori kaumātua (elders) formed Te Kōhanga Reo (Māori-language pre-school). (teara.govt.nz)
  • Dr Bassett, a former Health Minister, said women also began to move into the professions in numbers in the 1960s and by the 1970s were rivalling and in some cases outnumbering men in the medical and law schools. (colinjames.co.nz)
  • The second channel of advancement was through what Dr Bassett calls the "counter-culture" of the Labour party, which reflected in its own ranks the vigorous women's movement of the 1970s and then in government from 1984-90 went out of its way to appoint women to public posts. (colinjames.co.nz)
  • The former Panguru storekeeper first came to national attention in 1951 when she established the Māori Women's Welfare League. (nzonscreen.com)
  • The core of the League's work has always been to help Māori women and their Whānau by improving and supporting their health and well-being. (christchurchcitylibraries.com)
  • The resulting Children, Young Persons and their Families Act 1989 required social workers to consider the views of a Māori child's whānau , hapū and iwi . (teara.govt.nz)
  • My possession of Maori was part of a larger argument between me and a man who had helped to raise me in the absence of my Māori whānau. (citygallery.org.nz)
  • Aroha was elected National President of the Māori Women's Welfare League in 1990. (christchurchcitylibraries.com)
  • She was a J.P. and was awarded the QSO for services to the Māori Community in 1990. (komako.org.nz)
  • Through the organisation, women were able to represent themselves in the New Zealand government for the first time. (wikipedia.org)
  • Following its establishment, the league grew rapidly, with branches established throughout New Zealand. (wikipedia.org)
  • As president, Dame Whina Cooper became the highest profile Māori woman in New Zealand. (wikipedia.org)
  • Today the Māori Women's Welfare League is well-known throughout New Zealand. (christchurchcitylibraries.com)
  • The ninety women delegates present elected Whina Cooper as President of what was to be the first national Māori organisation in New Zealand. (christchurchcitylibraries.com)
  • The Speech from the Throne this year, the coalition's programme: "As long as the economic and social gaps between Maori and other New Zealanders remain large, the government of New Zealand cannot claim to have addressed the needs of all New Zealanders. (scoop.co.nz)
  • We welcomed a large delegation from Toi Māori: Māori Arts New Zealand, and other manuhiri from around the country. (christchurchartgallery.org.nz)
  • Maybe, but New Zealand has a long history of advancing women. (colinjames.co.nz)
  • New Zealand still lags behind some European countries in the number of women in paid work, she says, and the wage differential has grown over the past 10 years. (colinjames.co.nz)
  • Fewer Maori words are being glossed as speakers of New Zealand English become more comfortable with using them. (blogspot.com)
  • Thus the minor and major systems of Maori and Pakeha social organisations are not mutually exclusive, they interlock and interact to form the greater whole that is New Zealand society. (victoria.ac.nz)
  • Written by band member Phil Toms, the song makes a powerful political statement by connecting protest against a national rugby tour of New Zealand by a racially selected team from Apartheid South Africa with struggles for the return of Māori land. (umich.edu)
  • the first of the band's total of eight albums and New Zealand's first reggae album, is a musical fusion of reggae and Pacific sounds by a multi-ethnic group of musicians of Samoan, Samoan-Cook Island, Tongan, Māori, and Pākehā (European) heritage that produces a "distinctive Polynesian feel" [5] and is seen as a musical watershed in the history of New Zealand popular music. (umich.edu)
  • In addition to demonstrations against the racism of South African apartheid and racially selected international rugby teams, there were protests over Māori land losses that had taken place as part of the process of colonization and its consequences in New Zealand. (umich.edu)
  • Matriarchs: A Generation Of New Zealand Women Talk To Judith Fyfe. (komako.org.nz)
  • She was a member of the New Zealand Netball Association, the Māori Women's Welfare League and in 1987 she became a Justice of the Peace. (komako.org.nz)
  • On the websites of many New Zealand companies women can now access information about the services offered by Women's Refuge via a web page which will leave no trace in the browser history. (mvip.co.nz)
  • National Iwi Chairs Forum, the New Zealand Māori Council and the Māori Women's Welfare League have declared their support for co-governance and calls on the government to actively promote co-governance because it is good for all New Zealanders. (mwwl.org.nz)
  • In 1949 Apirana Ngata wrote in the autograph book of schoolgirl Rangi Bennett, 'E tipu, e rea, mo nga ra o tou ao, ko to ringa ki nga rakau a te Pakeha hei ora mo te tinana, ko to ngakau ki nga taonga a o tipuna Maori hei tikitiki mo to mahuna, a ko to wairua ki to Atua, nana nei nga mea katoa. (teara.govt.nz)
  • My birth mother was from Kahungunu, but I was adopted as a baby by a Māori father and a Pakeha mother. (e-tangata.co.nz)
  • Was there a difficulty for your mum, as a Pakeha, coping with your strong interest in taha Māori, because that's dominated much of your working career, hasn't it? (e-tangata.co.nz)
  • Most Maori associations have Pakeha members by right of inter-marriage, friendship or merely the wish to be there. (victoria.ac.nz)
  • Furthermore, there are points within the social system where Maori and Pakeha organisations interest with each other for their mutual advantage. (victoria.ac.nz)
  • The importance of the voting power of Maoris in voluntary associations is not lost on Pakeha aspirants to office in local bodies, pakeha candidates for local body elections have appeared before Maori organisations to put their case. (victoria.ac.nz)
  • The celebrations got underway earlier in the week with the Rehua Hauora Hui focused on rongoā Māori. (tpk.govt.nz)
  • Manaaki also fits because it safeguards the skill of preserving and encourages our people to learn about rongoā Māori, natural medicines. (thisnzlife.co.nz)
  • The league's formation was a direct result of the 1945 Māori Social and Economic Advancement Act. (wikipedia.org)
  • In 1945 the Māori Social and Economic Advancement Act led to the employment of Māori welfare officers who worked with Tribal Committees throughout the country to identify the needs of Māori. (christchurchcitylibraries.com)
  • There has been growing disparities between the life chances of Maori and other New Zealanders … we committed $240 million over the next four years to address these yawning gaps. (scoop.co.nz)
  • There has been a growing disparity between the life chances of Maori and other New Zealanders, and Pacific peoples and other New Zealanders. (scoop.co.nz)
  • Linguist John Macalister says as more New Zealanders become familiar with the meanings of common Maori words, an explanation becomes less necessary. (blogspot.com)
  • Ownership is anathema to non-Maori New Zealanders, and even some Maori, and would be a bridge too far in negotiations. (blogspot.com)
  • John Barrett from the Maori Tourism Council says the 10-day tour will take in Beijing, Shanghai and Chongqing. (blogspot.com)
  • Attendees included the Iwi Leaders Group, the Maori Council, the Federation of Maori Authorities, representatives from all major iwi (both post and pre-settlement iwi), hapu representatives, the Maori Women's Welfare League and religious representatives. (blogspot.com)
  • If that fails there is an obligation on iwi and those Maori groups in attendance, including the Iwi Leaders Group, to fall behind and support the Maori Council in litigation. (blogspot.com)
  • The Maori strategy manager for the police says there are no plans for a takeover of the Maori wardens. (blogspot.com)
  • It would be presumptuous of police to suddenly come out there and tell the Maori wardens how to train when they've been operating according to their own direction over some time. (blogspot.com)
  • Maori welfare committees cooperate with schools and state departments, Maori wardens deal with minors in hotels, Maori culture clubs are in demand to meet tourist ships or visiting celebrities at the airport. (victoria.ac.nz)
  • Maybe it's ironic that, in the wall-to-wall kitsch of his cavernous whare, this Pākehā had so much Māori stuff-the kind you get from a secondhand shop or sieve through the 'funky' 'kiwiana' listings of TradeMe for, to call treasure rather than taonga. (citygallery.org.nz)
  • As a Māori woman, she was a doubly unique figure in an industry dominated by Pākehā men. (deborahshepardbooks.com)
  • The fund lends to women and their whanau, and is run and governed by women. (wikipedia.org)
  • Bay of Plenty DHB midwife, safe infant sleep and smoke cessation co-ordinator Natasha Rawiri said the programme was focused on including the whole whanau to support the pregnant woman. (health.nz)
  • The Ukaipō programme was created to combat the high percentage of Māori women who smoked while pregnant by providing useful information and the incentive of weaving a wahakura (traditional Māori woven flax basket). (health.nz)
  • Radio Waatea is Auckland's only Māori radio station that provides an extensive bi-lingual broadcast to its listeners. (waateanews.com)
  • Cheri lives in Kirikiriroa and a Manutāiko consultant with Tūtira Mai NZ Ltd, and a teaching fellow supporting Tari Māori within Te Kura Toi Tangata, Wānanga o Toi at Te Whare Wānanga. (pinnacle.co.nz)
  • The league's official aims are "To promote fellowship and understanding between Māori and European women and to cooperate with other women's organisations, Departments of State, and local bodies for the furtherance of these objects. (wikipedia.org)
  • The mostly male members of the committee for social and economic advancement recognized the under-representation of women in government and created the Women's Welfare League to address this issue. (wikipedia.org)
  • citation needed] The league became heavily involved in housing, health, and education, focusing on families and healthy lifestyles in addition to women's issues. (wikipedia.org)
  • In 1987 the league, under the leadership of Dame Georgina Kirby, established the Māori Women's Development Inc (MWDI), a specialist lender to encourage innovation and business among Māori. (wikipedia.org)
  • This page features extracts from a recorded interview with Aroha Reriti-Crofts speaking about the Ōtautahi Māori Women's Welfare League. (christchurchcitylibraries.com)
  • Te Kiato Riwai, a Māori welfare officer, was instrumental in forming the Māori Women's Welfare League branch in Christchurch in 1952. (christchurchcitylibraries.com)
  • The Māori Women's Welfare League was formed by Māori women to address issues of housing and health. (teara.govt.nz)
  • Or the Rt Hon Helen Clark's speech to the Maori Women's Welfare League Conference just last week: "We have much work to do. (scoop.co.nz)
  • Members of the Rāpaki Māori Women's Welfare League organised a pre-loved clothing stall to support the kaupapa and help raise funds to send some of its' members to the league's upcoming regional conference on the West Coast. (tpk.govt.nz)
  • The most politically effective Maori body, in a culture that still denies women some speaking rights on formal occasions, is the Maori Women's Welfare League, established in 1950. (colinjames.co.nz)
  • The International Women's Rights Action Watch Asia Pacific (IWRAW-AP), Women's Fund Asia, U.N. Women and The Asia Foundation are all respectively working toward helping women in Asia and providing them with the resources necessary to thrive. (borgenproject.org)
  • Former Maori Women's Welfare League president Linda Grennell has passed away. (waateanews.com)
  • One of the main concerns according to Prue Kapua - President of The Māori Women's Welfare League was that "There is no recognition or acknowledgement of Te Tiriti o Waitangi. (teaonews.co.nz)
  • Prue Kapua has been "stepping up" for a good many years now - opting for law as a career, taking on some difficult opponents in the Environment Court, and, late last year, becoming the president of the Māori Women's Welfare League. (e-tangata.co.nz)
  • taking on the government, the Native Land Courts, leading the Māori Women's Welfare League, working as cabinet ministers - all while raising the future generation. (iwi.nz)
  • For instance maori associations such as the Maori Women's Welfare League promote the pre-school movement among the Maori mothers. (victoria.ac.nz)
  • Solomon describes her childhood growing up in the household of her grandmother, Ria Te Uira Wineera, speaks of her teaching career, extensive overseas travel and her work in the Māori Women's Welfare League. (komako.org.nz)
  • Charity Donation: In lieu of flowers,Carol and family would appreciate donations to Kihikihi Maori Women's Welfare League, and these may be left at the service. (honourthem.com)
  • Tumanako Mcleod from the Māori Women's Welfare League attended the programme as she said it could also be a preventative measure for women in case they did want to become pregnant in the future and wanted to address their issues around smoking. (health.nz)
  • She said the Shielded system offered a discreet way for women to get advice about the services the Women's Refuge offers. (mvip.co.nz)
  • She has been in the news lately with trying to worm herself into the leading role of the Maori Women's Welfare League, by rigging the votes in her favour. (blogspot.com)
  • The top four teams will qualify for the women's South Island League, which will combine with the top two teams from the Southern Football competition. (odt.co.nz)
  • Using household labour force data on d`ifferences in employment rates as the best single measure of Maori Labour market disparity shows that today employment rate disparity peaked in the early 1990s at over 14% and thereafter has fallen. (scoop.co.nz)
  • One hundred years later Helen Clark, now the Prime Minister, became the first woman to lead a major party (Labour), though women had been presidents of both major parties, Labour and National, during the 1980s and Jeanette Fitzsimons has led the small Green party for a decade. (colinjames.co.nz)
  • About 20 women had been involved in the programme since the idea was created a year ago and this was the fifth time the workshop had run in Tauranga. (health.nz)
  • The formation of the league was a milestone in Māori culture. (wikipedia.org)
  • We did have a reasonably strong kapa haka at the time but, apart from that, there wasn't a lot of emphasis on Māori culture. (e-tangata.co.nz)
  • That's essentially what the aunties are doing too, preserving "Māori culture in a jar" to nurture and nourish others. (thisnzlife.co.nz)
  • By the 1980s because of this type of action the organization was able to persuade the government into making te reo Māori part of the country's official languages. (wikipedia.org)
  • Honduras also made a significant change to its government in January 2022 when Xiomara Castro became the first female president in the country's history. (borgenproject.org)
  • Dame Whina Cooper was one of the most influential Māori leaders of the 20th century. (nzonscreen.com)
  • Like Castro, in December 2020, Maia Sandu became the first woman to hold the presidency in her country, Moldova. (borgenproject.org)
  • In Moldova, almost 27% of people lived in poverty in 2020 and gender inequality is prominent as women face high rates of gender-based violence and less than half of Moldovan women participate in the workforce. (borgenproject.org)
  • Te Rangiātaahua Royal, a senior welfare officer at this time, recognised the need to consult more effectively with Māori women as the Tribal Committees were largely a male domain. (christchurchcitylibraries.com)
  • The Silver Ferns national netball team has also had prominent young Māori players, including Louisa Wall who joined the team at 17 years old. (teara.govt.nz)
  • The list goes on: the most prominent figure among the indigenous Maori is a woman, Dame te Atairangikaahu, known as the Maori Queen. (colinjames.co.nz)
  • Te Ra: The Maori Sail is a partnership project between Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū and Tāmaki Paenga Hira Auckland War Memorial Museum. (christchurchartgallery.org.nz)
  • The two sides haven't met in the league since June last year, when Christchurch were clinical during their 4-0 win on Coastal's home ground. (odt.co.nz)
  • Local Māori artists and craftspeople ran workshops in the wharenui giving manuhiri (visitors) the opportunity to make whetu (stars) out of ribbon, wear stenciled tā moko, make poi and jewelry as well as decorate their own mauri stone. (tpk.govt.nz)
  • It also emphasised the importance of fellowship and understanding between Māori and non-Māori. (christchurchcitylibraries.com)
  • It is in this spirit that the Anglican Communion has engaged in the Commission on the Status of Women for more than 20 years, bringing women from all across the Communion to be in fellowship and advocate with one another. (anglicanwomen.nz)
  • The second option favours the Maori position, but the Courts rule on narrow legal issues. (blogspot.com)
  • Considering the aim is for the broad recognition of Maori rights, the Courts and a legalistic approach appears unsuitable. (blogspot.com)
  • Brown discusses her upcoming visit to San Diego to demonstrate Māori weaving. (komako.org.nz)
  • The League gave women the opportunity to network, compare ideas, support each other, develop leadership skills and plan strategies to deal with the problems faced by their people. (christchurchcitylibraries.com)
  • MIHI also host summer studentships to support the development of responsive Māori health research and researchers. (otago.ac.nz)
  • As Public Servants we will promote 'It's not OK' booklets and share the message with all our clients and the public whom we come across - that we fully support violence against Women is a big NO! (whiteribbon.org.nz)
  • The Cancer Society, Hei Āhuru Mōwai and and other health sector NGOs support the establishment of the Māori Health Authority. (cancer.org.nz)
  • The Anglican Communion seeks to uphold just relationships between women and men as a reflection of our Christian belief that women and men are equally made in the divine image, and seeks to encourage and support our church leaders to model just relationships, promote gender equality, and lead their people in challenging and ending gender based violence in all forms. (anglicanwomen.nz)
  • The political and social reasons for its development can be traced back to the 1930s when the rapid movement of Māori from rural districts into the cities was accompanied by a mass of problems including issues around housing, health, finance and racism. (christchurchcitylibraries.com)
  • It played a major role in making representations to government on Māori issues. (christchurchcitylibraries.com)
  • One of the main issues is that men had more rights than women. (borgenproject.org)
  • To combat these issues, four organizations are working diligently to improve the quality of life for Asian women. (borgenproject.org)
  • So there were real issues about bringing Māori through. (e-tangata.co.nz)
  • There's much more emphasis now on Māori issues. (e-tangata.co.nz)
  • The event provided exposure to a wide range of human rights issues focusing on gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls. (anglicanwomen.nz)
  • Divided Issues: How Did the Myth of the Unified Maori Originate? (eastonbh.ac.nz)
  • Ngai Tuhoe is the only Maori tribe that refused to sign the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi, which established peaceful relations between New Zealand's indigenous groups and white settlers. (blogspot.com)
  • Now women head eight of the 38 government departments, including the biggest, the Work and Income Department. (colinjames.co.nz)
  • In recent years, gender equality movements have reached government offices as countries around the world have made the progressive change of appointing women to leadership positions. (borgenproject.org)
  • Maori can now take a united position to the government and challenge them to accept, negotiate or rebut. (blogspot.com)
  • If Maori push ownership, that will force the government to play their trump card - legislation. (blogspot.com)
  • Furthermore, being an African woman, Okonjo-Iweala has experienced the struggles of the African continent first-hand. (borgenproject.org)
  • The organisation's recent focus has been on inspiring Māori women to consider the more non-traditional areas of work. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Modern Apprenticeship Program was designed to promote cross-fertilisation within the traditional male and female roles. (wikipedia.org)
  • Large-scale Māori migration from rural to urban areas during the mid-20th century further disrupted traditional patterns of child-rearing. (teara.govt.nz)
  • Experts on tikanga Māori agree that incest (kai-whiore or ngau-whiore) and rape (pāwhera) are abhorrent to traditional Māori values. (teara.govt.nz)
  • Until the period of mass urban migration by Māori, the physical or sexual abuse of children was limited both by these traditional values and by the constant presence of other adults. (teara.govt.nz)
  • Manaaki condiments, made in Blenheim with traditional Māori ingredients, aren't just delicious. (thisnzlife.co.nz)
  • An illustrated guide to weaving the traditional Māori headband which is called tipare in the North Island and kopare in the South island. (komako.org.nz)
  • She was a tutor in Māoritanga and a member of the Māori Writers and Artists' Association. (komako.org.nz)
  • And the chief executive of the largest company on the stock exchange, Telecom, is - you guessed it - a woman, 38-year-old Theresa Gattung. (colinjames.co.nz)
  • Cancer Society Medical Director Dr George Laking, Hei Āhuru Mōwai Chief Executive Moahuia Goza, and GM of Māori Health at Stroke Foundation Nita Brown are available for comments. (cancer.org.nz)
  • Urbanisation highlighted the need for a national body working in the interests of Māori welfare. (christchurchcitylibraries.com)
  • The League provided a national forum for Māori women to express their concerns about the social problems experienced within their communities. (christchurchcitylibraries.com)
  • Young Māori have had notable success in national and international sports. (teara.govt.nz)
  • In late 1997 Jenny Shipley leapfrogged Ms Clark to become the first woman Prime Minister when she was elected National party leader. (colinjames.co.nz)
  • But women are playing this traditionally male game too - and their national rugby team is world champion, while the men languish at world No 4. (colinjames.co.nz)
  • Over 1000 Maori responded to the Kingitanga's call for a national hui on water rights. (blogspot.com)
  • Assuming negotiation goes ahead, we are in a strong position to push for the creation of a national framework for recognising Maori rights and interests in water and compensating for the use and/or breach of those rights. (blogspot.com)
  • The effect of these social changes, combined with the generally low economic status of Māori people, meant that Māori children had poorer health and worse rates of accidents and youth suicide than non-Māori. (teara.govt.nz)
  • I did not need to open a book to find my own people, even though I still had Maori with me in Bobby Jo, my lucky, unlucky book. (citygallery.org.nz)
  • World Vision reports that 689 million people endured extreme poverty in 2021 and research shows that women make up a majority of the world's impoverished . (borgenproject.org)
  • They are trained in listening and speaking with children and young people and have experience in working with different communities, including Māori communities. (aroturuki.govt.nz)
  • [12] There were campaigns to end nuclear testing in the Pacific and to prevent degradation of the environment, as well as protests against racist treatment of so-called "over-stayers" from the Pacific Islands and of urban Māori and Pacific Island people. (umich.edu)
  • Ms Else pinpoints the origin in the public sector, where the rules allowed women from the early 1960s to challenge discrimination in appointments. (colinjames.co.nz)
  • Some of her films explored Māori society and highlighted discrimination against Māori. (deborahshepardbooks.com)
  • A third of both the cabinet and the Parliament are women - one backbencher, Georgina Beyer, is believed to be the world's first transsexual MP. (colinjames.co.nz)
  • In 2021, Albania appointed 12 out of its 17 total cabinet seats to women, a 70% majority. (borgenproject.org)
  • By giving the prime minister a new, primarily female cabinet, Albania could begin to go in a new direction that could further empower women in the nation. (borgenproject.org)
  • Although there was no outright consensus on ownership, opinion was heavily weighted towards holding that Maori do own water. (blogspot.com)
  • The family group conference, in which extended families work with welfare professionals to plan safe outcomes for their children, became the basis for state decision-making on the care or protection of children. (teara.govt.nz)
  • She has had frustrations along the way, but there have been heartening signs, too, especially with the tireless, voluntary community work being done by so many league women. (e-tangata.co.nz)
  • In the 20th century members of Te Aute College Students' Association (later the Young Māori Party), led by Apirana Ngata, challenged Māori youth to take leadership roles in improving the welfare and living conditions of Māori families and children. (teara.govt.nz)
  • There's more: the Attorney-General is a former law professor, Margaret Wilson, and women head the Law Society, the Employers Federation and the Institute of Chartered Accountants, once the preserves of crusty males. (colinjames.co.nz)
  • We grew up in a Māori Affairs house and I went to school at Sunset Primary and Sunset Intermediate in Rotorua - then to Girls' High. (e-tangata.co.nz)
  • Welfare officers working under Royal organised groups of women around the country to consider the health and welfare needs of their communities. (christchurchcitylibraries.com)
  • Newcomers to the league FC Twenty 11 will be in search of their first win in the competition when they travel to Dunedin to play Green Island on Saturday. (odt.co.nz)
  • This was followed by the development of Kura Kaupapa Māori and Whare Kura (Māori-language primary and secondary schools). (teara.govt.nz)
  • Section 18 should include a power for the Minister of Māori Development to authorise persons as enforcement officers who are suitably qualified by virtue of knowledge and respect to take action under the act in respect of Māori communities or gatherings. (teaonews.co.nz)
  • The first rounds of the Southern League and Canterbury Rugby League premiership saw some close contests and comfortable wins. (odt.co.nz)
  • The club rugby league competition enters its second round on Saturday with major changes to how it operates. (odt.co.nz)
  • Request for information p. 81 Māori information resources at Massey University Library / Spencer Lilly p. 83 See real history - take your visitors to these Manawatū museums The Manawatu Journal of History contains articles on the history of the wider Manawatu area, written by a variety of contributors. (pncc.govt.nz)
  • If more countries adapted governments to promote gender equality, more women worldwide would have the same rights as men. (borgenproject.org)
  • Parents of young children found themselves living in unfamiliar and often cramped urban surroundings, far from their relatives and facing new social expectations from mainly non-Māori neighbours and landlords. (teara.govt.nz)
  • Almost all of our students are Maori or Pacific Islanders and have either been directly involved with or have been affected by violence in the home. (whiteribbon.org.nz)
  • At Girls' High we had about 45 percent Māori students. (e-tangata.co.nz)
  • A 1988 Department of Social Welfare report, Puao te ata tu , called for a system for dealing with young Māori offenders that recognised Māori customs, values and beliefs. (teara.govt.nz)
  • A frequent articulated belief is that over the last decade, the relative social and economic position of Maori has worsened. (scoop.co.nz)
  • Castro has already voiced her intentions to tackle social injustice and help women. (borgenproject.org)
  • A rural populist party, the Social Credit Political League, received 11.1% of the vote. (teara.govt.nz)
  • It was evident that a new approach is being taken by the Anglican Communion in terms of preparedness, participation, collegiality between the Anglican, Episcopal churches and Ecumenical Women. (anglicanwomen.nz)
  • Conservative' in practice meant keeping the mixed economy of both private and public enterprise, in which the state was a major actor through a welfare state, nationalised industries and regulation. (teara.govt.nz)
  • It wasn't until my last year at school that they introduced Māori language. (e-tangata.co.nz)
  • It came in when I was in the seventh form so I did Māori language in my last year through to School C level. (e-tangata.co.nz)