Post by Kiwi Frontline on Jul 4, 2019 17:13:27 GMT 12
HAUORA CLAIM REVEALS TREATY PRINCIPLES
A long time advocate for better Māori health services is describing the Waitangi Tribunal's Hauora Report as brave and out there.
He says even more critically for the next stages of this claim and others, the report identifies three new treaty principles.
"Tino Rangatiratanga as a formal Treaty of Waitangi principle; the principle of equity - we have read that in Article 3 in the past but he wanted to get out there and state it; and the principle of options. Māori have a right to partake in mainstream services and get good service, culturally competent service from mainstream services as well as the right to expect they can if they wish to go to kaupapa Māori services that are appropriately set up and funded," Dr Tipene-Leach says.....
www.waateanews.com/waateanews/x_news/MjIwODc/Hauora-claim-reveals-treaty-principles
A long time advocate for better Māori health services is describing the Waitangi Tribunal's Hauora Report as brave and out there.
He says even more critically for the next stages of this claim and others, the report identifies three new treaty principles.
"Tino Rangatiratanga as a formal Treaty of Waitangi principle; the principle of equity - we have read that in Article 3 in the past but he wanted to get out there and state it; and the principle of options. Māori have a right to partake in mainstream services and get good service, culturally competent service from mainstream services as well as the right to expect they can if they wish to go to kaupapa Māori services that are appropriately set up and funded," Dr Tipene-Leach says.....
www.waateanews.com/waateanews/x_news/MjIwODc/Hauora-claim-reveals-treaty-principles