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Amnesty International says the governments of Vanuatu and Fiji must call on Australia to end its practice of traumatic offshore detention.

The Fiji government has called on the European Union to ease the process of obtaining a visa for the islanders to travel to Europe.

Amnesty International is calling on candidates in Fiji's election to sign on to a list of human rights commitments ahead of the next week's poll.

Amnesty International is calling for Fiji police to widen their investigation into the death of a man allegedly beaten by officers, to include other victims in the same incident.

A court has been told the man accused of murdering South Auckland mother Arishma Chand was an "easy target" for the police.

Fiji says it will use its seat on the UN Human Rights Council to pursue better climate change resilience, and fight for the rights of children and gender equality in the Pacific.

Pacific Islands Forum leaders are being urged to put Australia's treatment of refugees at the top of the agenda during their upcoming meeting in Nauru.

Papua New Guinea's police chief has ordered an investigation into a police beating which was captured on film and viewed widely on social media.

It's taken more than two years for health authorities to send an apology to the family of a man hit by a resthome worker.

A rest home worker convicted of assaulting an elderly dementia patient may face further legal action.

A Fiji politician says the policy of preventing gay men from giving blood plays into prejudices.

A former Hamilton rest home worker has been convicted and discharged for assaulting an elderly man in June last year.

The Lautoka magistrates court in Fiji has this week heard four complaints of police brutality in two separate criminal cases.

A 6.9 earthquake struck just south of Fiji at a depth of 17 kilometres.