• Press release
    Dec 2, 2011

    Fiji’s government should end attacks on critics and lift censorship.

  • Letter
    Dec 2, 2011

    On the eve of the 5th anniversary of your assumption of power in Fiji, we urge you to immediately halt the ongoing serious human rights violations in Fiji and realize the promises that your government made at the United Nations Human Rights Council in June 2010.

  • Letter
    Dec 8, 2010
    Human Rights Watch looks forward to working with your government in the coming months to help Australia realize its commitments to protecting and promoting human rights at home and abroad.
  • Commentary
    Feb 11, 2010
    While tourists flock to Fiji's white beaches in search of underwater paradise, the country's military officers threaten human rights defenders with a different underwater experience.
  • Press release
    Feb 9, 2010
    UN members should press Fiji’s military government during a review of its human rights record to end arbitrary arrests, ill-treatment in detention, and interference with judicial independence, and to ensure a swift return to democratic rule.
  • Commentary
    Jan 19, 2010
    Australia has a good track record of principled diplomacy and implementing targeted sanctions against abusive military governments in Burma and Fiji. Yet it's relatively easy for Australia to speak out about countries where it has few economic interests. It takes more courage and principle to turn up the heat on countries where it has significant economic and strategic interests.
  • Commentary
    Nov 24, 2009
    The Commonwealth has developed a 21st-century role – as a haven for serial human rights abusers.
  • Written statement
    Aug 26, 2009
    Fiji remains a military dictatorship that denies its citizens the right to take part in self-government through free and fair elections, as well as the freedoms of speech, press, assembly, and religion. Since the December 5, 2006 coup d’état, the military and police have arbitrarily arrested and detained human rights defenders, journalists and others perceived as critical of the administration.
  • Press release
    Aug 3, 2009
    Fiji’s interim government continues to commit human rights abuses two-and-a-half years after a military coup. Human Rights Watch urged leaders attending the Pacific Islands Forum to agree to push Fiji’s interim government to cease these abuses immediately, when the region’s leaders meet on August 5 and 6 in Cairns, Australia.
  • Letter
    Aug 1, 2009
    We write to urge you and other leaders attending the 40th Leaders' Meeting of the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) in Cairns from August 5 to 6, 2009, to address the ongoing human rights violations in Fiji.