AGM Announcement
Date and time: 7 November 2023, 10am – 11:30am
Venue: Te Kura Kaupapa Māori a Rohe o Māngere, 82 Bader Drive, Māngere Auckland
Ngā Toki Whakarururanga at the WTO Public Forum
From 12-15 September, our Kaihautū India Logan-Riley and three of our Pūkenga, Maui Solomon, Carrie Stoddart-Smith and Emeritus Professor Jane Kelsey, participated in panels at the annual World Trade Organisation Public Forum in Geneva, on different aspects of Māori, Te Tiriti o Waitangi and Indigenous rights affected by international trade and investment agreements.
India Logan-Riley
Emeritus Professor Jane Kelsey
Maui Solomon
Carrie Stoddart-Smith
Website redesign
Please note that our website is in the process of being redesigned so that it is easier to navigate. The new website will be launched around mid-October, so keep an eye out for it and bare with us as we endeavour to keep the old website up-to-date through the transition to the new website.
Te Puni Kōkiri and Ngā Toki Whakarururanga
Ngā Toki Whakarururanga, with the support of a grant from Te Puni Kōkiri’s Te Pae Tawhiti fund, is developing several projects to build on existing relationships and analysis in the areas of:
- Hua Parakore, Kai Atua, and the intersection between Free Trade Agreements, Organics, and GMOs, alongside Te Waka Kai Ora;
- Māori Data Sovereignty and and Māori Data Governance;
- The Protection of Rongōa Māori, while developing authentic export opportunities, alongside Donna Kerridge and Rongōa practitioners;
- The Protection of Māori Intellectual Property, such as music, writing, and kapa haka, in free trade agreements.
Dr Jessica Hutchings is helping lead the Hua Parakore and Kai Atua project.
Our Māori data and hua parakore projects are underway, with the others to commence soon.
Reach out if you are would like to participate in our projects
Digital and environmental challenges in free trade policy
As part of our education role, we have started running Trade and Te Tiriti 101 webinars on topics of importance to Māori, presented by our Pūkenga Emeritus Professor Jane Kelsey. The first three were on Digital Trade; Te Taiao, the Climate Crisis and Investment Agreements; and Te Taiao, the Climate Crisis and FTAs. You can access them with the link below. If you are interested in alerts to future webinars please email kiaora@staging.solarshift.org with your areas of interest.