Maori human rights lawyer Moana Jackson says the Government cannot continue to ignore calls by the United Nations to address human rights in New Zealand.
Waatea News reports that the UN's Human Rights Council has told the Government it has concerns about social disparities between Maori and non-Maori, high rates of Maori imprisonment and New Zealand's commitment to indigenous rights.
Mr Jackson says New Zealand did not come through the review process well.
He told Waatea News the UN agency had echoed criticisms of the Foreshore and Seabed ACT previously expressed by a UN committee on the elimination of racial discrimination.
Equality of opportunities and the status of the Treaty of Waitangi were also covered in the review, the first of what will be a four-yearly review process.
Race Relations Commissioner Joris de Bres says public meetings will be held by the Ministry of Justice and the Human Rights Commission to gauge feedback on some of the matters in the report.