Kawenata Reflection

 

 Kawenata Learning Reflection

Kawenata Learning Reflection

My understanding of the UDHR (Universal Declaration Of Human Rights) is that back in the late 1940’s the Draft Committee had organized a kawenata regarding the freedom or the equality in the worldwide population. A very historic document recording the rights empowered to the people, or the rights that the people are entitled to. 

The kawenata of our tangata whenua, Te Tiriti O Waitangi, in my understanding is a declaration published to balance the rights, the property and the partnership between our Maori Chiefs and the British Crown. It requires both races to work together for the betterment of Aotearoa’s population. A partnership of governance was made that day, although there was a malfunction with the translations between two articles to be signed. 

There were many similarities between the two declarations but I have singled out some, they both balance out rights between our people, it was also published for the greater good, to show some equality in the world. Before the declarations were first published, there were many wars fought between countries. They thought that violence was the answer to solve their problems instead of coming to an agreement and making a declaration.

As many similarities, there are always differences. Te Tiriti O Waitangi was only about the balance of the British and the Maori. The UDHR was designed to work in unison with any country that wants to be signed. UDHR had many names before coming up with the Universal Declaration Of Human Rights, there was natural law, where there was no boundaries or law saying you couldn’t treat another differently.