Pacific Press release – Amnesty International, 10 February 2010

Fiji Government misrepresents human rights record to UN

The Fiji Government has misrepresented its human rights record in a report to the United Nations, Amnesty International said today. Read more »

Pacific.Scoop
By Kara Segedin

Women in the Pacific face some of the highest rates of physical and sexual violence in the world, but regional organisations are working hard to improve the situation.

Pacific researcher Apolosi Bose was in Auckland for the release of the Amnesty International Fiji Report last month.

Also high on his agenda was highlighting the serious violence against women in the Pacific. Read more »

Pacific Press Release – Pacific Media Watch, 10 Sept 2009

6414 AUSTRALIAN LAWYERS RILED OVER FIJI LAWLESSNESS

By Biwa Kwan

SYDNEY (The New Lawyer Online/Pacific Media Watch): The rule of law in Fiji is under threat after its interim president terminated a Court of Appeal ruling, the international body representing Australian barristers, judges and lawyers says.
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Apolosi Bose ... researching from Fiji's poverty to political human rights. Photo: PMC/Del Abcede

Pacific.Scoop
By Josephine Latu of Pacific Media Watch

Fiji authorities are using a variety of “repressive tactics” to smother free speech, including short-term arrests and intimidation of journalists, says Amnesty International.

The human rights organisation released a scathing new report early today detailing serious human rights violations under the military regime headed by Commodore Voreqe Bainimarama.
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By Kara Segedin

Global concerns over human rights abuses in Fiji are mounting following a damning new report by Amnesty International’s Pacific research team.

In the report released early today, Amnesty documents a litany of human rights violations in the Pacific nation since the abrogation of the Constitution on April 10.
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Apolosi Bose ... researching from Fiji's slums to political human rights. Photo: PMC/Del Abcede

Pacific.Scoop
By Pacific Media Centre

Amnesty International’s Pacific human rights campaign will rise another notch with the release of a damning new report on Fiji tomorrow and further investigations in the pipeline on urban poverty in Fiji and the Solomon Islands and domestic violence in Papua New Guinea.

Human rights violations related to the spread of HIV/AIDS in western Melanesia are also a key area of concern.
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