Kaupapa Maori responses to violence against wahine Maori [pdf, 965 KB]
...Māori communities to exercise their rights to enforce sanctions on their own people.18 The changes in social norms moved the collective responsibility of all Māori to ensure the safety of women, children and the whānau as a whole moved into the private domain of men’s homes. The Native Schools system and missionary teachings further undermined Māori structures in relation to the reconstruction of gender roles and the shift of whānau to nuclear family structures.19 Poverty, s...