Post by Kiwi Frontline on May 23, 2024 5:31:55 GMT 12
NINETEEN ASIAN STUDENT ASSOCIATIONS BACK MĀORI AND PASIFIKA CAMPUS SPACES
Asian student organisations across Aotearoa have issued a joint statement expressing their solidarity with Māori and Pasifika spaces on university campuses.
The tuākana room was only accessible to Māori and Pasifika students.
The statement, signed by 19 Asian student associations and supported by the Asian Legal Network, came in response to the party’s claims, which the authors described as “inaccurate, divisive, and harmful”.
The organisations asserted that spaces for Māori, as tangata whenua, should be guaranteed as part of the obligations under Te Tiriti o Waitangi.
They emphasised that all tertiary campuses were built on indigenous land and that Te Tiriti was fundamental to Aotearoa and to the presence of non-indigenous people (tauiwi) in the country.....
www.teaonews.co.nz/2024/05/22/nineteen-asian-student-associations-back-maori-and-pasifika-campus-spaces/
Asian student organisations across Aotearoa have issued a joint statement expressing their solidarity with Māori and Pasifika spaces on university campuses.
The tuākana room was only accessible to Māori and Pasifika students.
The statement, signed by 19 Asian student associations and supported by the Asian Legal Network, came in response to the party’s claims, which the authors described as “inaccurate, divisive, and harmful”.
The organisations asserted that spaces for Māori, as tangata whenua, should be guaranteed as part of the obligations under Te Tiriti o Waitangi.
They emphasised that all tertiary campuses were built on indigenous land and that Te Tiriti was fundamental to Aotearoa and to the presence of non-indigenous people (tauiwi) in the country.....
www.teaonews.co.nz/2024/05/22/nineteen-asian-student-associations-back-maori-and-pasifika-campus-spaces/