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Many members of New Zealand's Fiji community say they object to a controversial Bill that could see those jailed for the 2000 coup set free, including the ring leader George...

A Fiji High Court judge says the country's justice system is blind to women victims of violence. Justice Nazhat Shameem says the legal system should look into this great social...

The New Zealand Associate Minister of Foreign Affairs, Marian Hobbs, says HIV/Aids, could become the next major security threat in the Pacific. Ms Hobbs told the "Securing a Peaceful Pacific"...

New Caledonia's Human Rights League is organising a forum this weekend to discuss the social inequality affecting the territory. The League's president, Elie Poigoune, says the gap is widening…

A regional meeting in Fiji has been told that political corruption, abuse of office and power, including power struggles, are rife throughout the Pacific. The Fiji Sun reports that this...

Fiji's prime minister has again defended his governemnt's policies in favouring indigenous Fijians. Laisenia Qarase made the declaration in a speech in Wellington when he outlined Fiji's recent…

Guam's delegate to the United States Congress is tackling what she regards as an inequity that prevents several American territories receiving reduced health costs. She says the "urban" qualification…

Fiji's ruling SDL party has come under criticism for lacking vision, sensitivity and compassion for the poor. The Sunday Post reports the comments have come from the NGO Coalition for...

Fiji's opposition leader, Prem Singh, say the Qarase government's ethnic approach in its affirmative action policies is based on the myth that ethnic Indians are affluent and indigenous Fijians poor.

Fiji's Senate has been told that its colonial masters, the British, are responsible for the country's present-day problems. A Government senator and one-time historian, Dr Ahmed Ali, says indigenous…