government. Fiji became a member of the United Nations on 13 October 1970. Fiji has acceded to some, but not the majority, of the key human rights treaties...

bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights in Fiji have evolved rapidly over the years. In 1997, Fiji became the second country in the world after South Africa...

The Fiji Human Rights Commission (FHRC) was created by presidential decree in 2009, succeeding the entity of the same name established as an independent...

Prostitution in Fiji is legal, but most activities connected with it are illegal: brothel keeping, pimping and buying or selling sex in public. Street...

the political segregation and unequal human rights for Hindus (and other Indo-Fijians) was retained in Fiji's first Constitution as the British empire...

The Fiji Women's Rights Movement (FWRM) is a multi-ethnic and multi-cultural organisation based in Suva, Fiji, that works to remove discrimination against...

national human rights institution (NHRI) is an independent state-based institution with the responsibility to broadly protect and promote human rights in a given...

the President of the United Nations Human Rights Council in 2021. She served as a judge of the High Court of Fiji from 1999 to 2009, the first woman to...

"All victims of human rights abuses should be able to look to the Human Rights Council as a forum and a springboard for action." — Ban Ki-moon, UN Secretary-General...

A human rights commission, also known as a human relations commission, is a body set up to investigate, promote or protect human rights. The term may...

Indo-Fijians (Fiji Hindi: फ़िजी के हिंदुस्तानी), also known as Indian Fijians (also colloquially known as "Findians" or "Findus"), are Fijian citizens...

things done or actions taken outside Fiji." This implies the stand that Fiji will take on behalf of human rights in international forums such as the United...

Bill to the Standing Committee on Justice, Law and Human Rights that was tabled in the Parliament of Fiji to enforce tougher restrictions on those that may...

effective in Taiwan. The human rights record in Taiwan is generally held to have experienced significant transformation since the 1990s. The citizens in Taiwan...

Nalini Singh is a human rights activist from Fiji. In 2017 she was appointed director of the Fiji Women's Rights Movement. Singh is a graduate of the University...

rights influenced by the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the European Convention on Human Rights. While most human rights in...

The Fiji Native Tribal Congress (FNTC) was established in June 2011 to advance, protect and maintain the rights of indigenous Fijians, in accordance with...

In 2009, Fiji was a source country for children subjected to trafficking in persons, specifically forced prostitution within the country, as well as a...

still the lawful government. Prasad was assisted in his case by the Fiji Human Rights Commission. On 15 November 2000 Justice Anthony Gates delivered his...

Fiji (/ˈfiːdʒi/ FEE-jee, /fiːˈdʒiː/ fee-JEE; Fijian: Viti, [ˈβitʃi]; Fiji Hindi: फ़िजी, Fijī), officially the Republic of Fiji, is an island country in...

constitutional monarchy. The Human Rights Scores Dataverse ranked Japan somewhere in the middle among G7 countries on its human rights performance, below Germany...

students in Fiji". RNZ. 2013-11-08. Retrieved 2020-09-06. "Human Rights Measurement Initiative – The first global initiative to track the human rights performance...

police force. The 2006 military coup in Fiji created an unstable political environment and heralded a range of human rights violations, including instances...

trafficking in pornography under section 188 of the Penal Code. The Fiji Human Rights Commission stated in relation to this case: Trafficking in obscene publications...

main laws which protect human rights are the New Zealand Human Rights Act 1993 and the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990. In addition, New Zealand has...

Singh (author) (born 1977), New Zealand writer Nalini Singh (human rights activist), Fiji Nalini Negi (born 1990), Indian actress and model Nalaini Selva;...

Kavita Naidu is a Fijian international human rights lawyer known for her work on climate change, refugee and criminal law. Naidu is from Fiji. She has a master's...

everyone a voice in the climate conversation", Deutsche Welle, 9 February 2018 "Fiji, First In Pacific To Be In UN Human Rights Council", Fiji Sun, 14 October...

The Human Rights Measurement Initiative finds that the climate crisis has worsened human rights conditions moderately (4.6 out of 6) in Fiji. Fiji's CO2...

The economy of Fiji is one of the most developed among the Pacific islands. Nevertheless, Fiji is a developing country endowed with forest, mineral and...