Our activities nationally and internationally

We all actively participate in a wide array of national and international research and dialogue, regularly contributing to high-level and local events as well as in media, including the New York Times and Guardian. 

For example:

• Associate Professor Andrew Erueti has been working with the Fiji Human Rights and Anti-Discrimination Commission on its intervention in a case stated to the Supreme Court by the government. The issue is the amendability of the 2013 Constitution.
  
  The Fijian Cabinet has formally asked the Supreme Court for a legal opinion on the amendment provisions under the 2013 Constitution, specifically the 75% parliamentary vote and national referendum requirement, following the failure of a proposed amendment bill in Parliament see: Fiji's cabinet seeks supreme court opinion on constitutional amendment process | ConstitutionNet
  

• UN Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Professor Charters delivered a statement related to the Deputy Prime Minister’s rejection of the UN Special Rapporteur on the rights of Indigenous Peoples’ criticism of the Government’s regressive policies and laws impacting Māori rights (July 2025)
  

• Professor Charters moderated a panel on "DATA SOVEREIGNTY: Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls and Two-Spirit, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, and Asexual People (2SLGBTQIA+)" at the United Nations in Geneva (July 2025)

• Professor Charters also spoke at the Implementing the Declaration: Collaborative Approaches side event at the UN’s Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Peoples in July 2025. (July 2025)

• Our scholarship tauira whetumarama took a trip to the United States of America to attend the 2025 immersion Program as part of The 2025 International Program on Indigenous Peoples’ Rights and Policy (May to June 2025)

• Workshop on “Decolonial Comparative History: Indigenous and Global South Law Prior to Colonialism”, University of Oxford (September 2022)

• “Chile’s Draft Constitution: Indigenous Rights in Context”, webinar organised by the Canadian Council for the Americas (August 2022)

• “Indigenous Peoples and the United Nations”, seminar organised by the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies, Leiden University, as part of its Conference Series on International Criminal Law, Justice and Indigenous Cultures (June 2022)

• Presentation to the UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples to inform a consultation process and the Implementation of their Right to Water in Domestic legal systems (April 2022).

• United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues Regional Dialogue on Indigenous Peoples’ Autonomies and Self-Governance in the Pacific (January 2022): 

• Presentation on the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples at the University of Dundee online seminar series on “Framework Treaties and Human Rights Agreements: Insights from Experience” (September 2021)

• “Conference Opening Plenary - Presidents Panel: Indigenous Voices in International Law”, 2021 Australia and New Zealand Society of International Law Conference (June 2021)

• “Is International Law related to Indigenous Peoples Fit for Purpose?”, virtual panel as part of the Canadian Council of International Law Conference (October 2020)