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Post by Kiwi Frontline on May 21, 2019 17:20:14 GMT 12
BAN ON PRISONERS VOTING ‘HUMILIATION’ OF MĀORI, TRIBUNAL TOLDThe Waitangi Tribunal has heard the ban on prisoners voting is underpinned by racism and disproportionately impacts on Māori. An urgent inquiry into the rights of prisoners to vote is underway in Wellington. The former National government banned all prisoners from voting in 2010. She is calling on the voting ban to be removed and believed that broader action needed to be taken to end the disproportionately aimed against Māori within the criminal justice system. Lawyer Annette Sykes, who representing three claimants, told the Tribunal the crown had failed to protect the ability of Māori to exercise tino rangatiratanga....... www.newsie.co.nz/news/150143-ban-on-prisoners-voting-lsquohumiliationrsquo-of-mori-tribunal-told.html More on the above here > Māori solutions needed to reduce prison numbers And here > Prisoner voting a Treaty right
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