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Government of the Republic of the Fiji Islands Freedom Checklist 2009

POLITICAL RIGHTS A. ELECTORAL PROCESS - Abrogated Indefinitely 1. Is the head of government or other chief national authority elected through free and fair elections? 2. Are the national legisl…
Lawyers Duty to Report Human Rights Issues in Fiji

Pacific countries are required to report to the Human Rights Council of the United Nations and other UN member states on their human rights records under the Universal Period Review (UPR), a new human rights reporting me…
Dictator should present himself to the International Criminal Court

President Barack Obama will renew far-reaching economic sanctions on Sudan this month, underscoring his administration's pledge to use both carrots and sticks to induce cooperation from Khartoum on key security issues…
ICC sign MOU with World Bank - Bainimarama Arrest by Interpol Pending

The following information was released by the International Criminal Court: The International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo and Integrity Vice President of the World Bank Group (INT) Mr. Leonard…
UNITED NATIONS HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL TO SCRUTINIZE FRANK BAINIMARAMA

The following information was released by the United Nations Office at Geneva (UNOG): The Human Rights Council this morning heard an update from United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on salien…
Taiwan Snubs Frank Bainimarama

The Taiwan - South Pacific Leaders Summit is tentatively scheduled to be held in Honiara, Solomon Islands on the 20th of October 2009 and will be attended by the President of Taiwan, Ma Ying-Jeou and the Head of State of…
Josaia V Bainimarama to be Executed by International Criminal Court

The Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court was ratified by Fiji on the 29th of November 1999. The ICC will host its eighth session in the Hague in November 2009 and an invitation was given to all state parti…
Synopsis of Breach by Frank Bainimarama of International Law

· Freedom of Conscience, Religion and Belief [Art 18 ICCPR, Art 18 UDHR] · Freedom from Discrimination on Religious Grounds [Art 26 ICCPR, Art 1,6,7 UDHR] · Freedom from Torture, Cruel, Inhumane…
The Final Solution: A United “Cross-Conditionality” on Funding the Republic of Fiji

Apart from standard financial, macroeconomic and structural conditionality a further genre is long overdue in international funding programs and that is to compel respect for the ‘rule of law’ and ‘human rights’, includi…
Early Signs of Genocide in the Republic of the Fiji Islands

The word ‘genocide’ was coined by Raphael Lemkin in 1945 and was first used in the same year in an indictment brought before the Nuremburg Tribunal.In the 1948 Genocide Convention, Article 2 defines ‘genocide’ as “...act…