Fiji gay
Fiji Imprisons Tourist For Having Gay Sex
Fiji not that bad
I forwarded this post to a friend of mine who's an expatriate Fijian living in the US. He gave me a lengthy response with lots of background on gays in Fiji and detail on prominent gay Fijians. I cannot post the latter information publicly, since many of those men could be identifiable and some still live in Fiji. My friend made some significant points we might find reassuring or at least helpful in comprehending the context.
1. Fiji's post-'97 coup constitution bars discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. The penal code, left over from colonial days, has not been reformed to bring it in line with the constitution.
2. The age difference (55/23) and racial difference (white/Indian-Fijian) may have contributed to the apprently prejudicial comments of the trial court. Fiji has seen a rash of sex tourism lately, many of it heterosexual directed at minor girls, which has caused native Fijians to be suspicious of middle-aged tourists getting too familiar with the locals. Of course, the Fijian
Story 1:
I am a 24 years old Indian gay guy living here in Fiji islands. On your website, I own read some negative comments [stories 2 and 3 below] from some people on the situation of gay life in Fiji. Well I definitely don’t agree about these negative views about Fiji and how they deal with gays.
For starters I execute agree that an Australian national and a local were arrested for having sex. However, after this action, the court made rulings that both the accused be released without any form of charges outlayed to them. The Fiji Human rights body in Fiji was very proactive in that situation. The only reason the two were taken into court was mainly because the so called concept of &#;Sodomy Law&#; was applied by some uninformed police but the court ruled that it was an archaic law.
Regarding pornography. It is true that porn is illegal in Fiji. However, I assume that the writer didn’t fully understood what is outlawed regarding pornography here. It is very adequately instructed in my Fiji constitution that the sale of pornographic material in the market is illegal and shooting porn
Fiji
Fiji has made progress on LGBTIQ equality in the last decade. However, LGBTIQ people still face barriers to adj equality. Same-sex relations were decriminalized in , and Fiji is one of the few countries in the world to ban discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity in its constitution. Fiji also enacted legal protections from discrimination based on sexual orientation in the workplace in and prohibits health professionals from attempting to verb a person’s sexual orientation. Fiji has a traditional third-gender population known as vaka sa lewa lewa, who present themselves and/or identify as women, but there is no procedure for legal gender recognition in the country.
In July , the Human Rights and Anti-Discrimination Commission in the country filed a complaint with both the Fiji Police Force and the Online Safety Commission following the death by suicide of a queer individual who faced online gender-based violence.
*Outright research indicates that the bodily autonomy of intersex people is not respected and protected in this country. Marking a significant step towards achieving the country’s universal access goals, Fiji passed a l Marking a significant step towards achieving the country’s universal access goals, Fiji passed a law decriminalizing consensual homosexuality through the Fiji National Crimes Decree on 1 February With this legislation Fiji becomes the first Pacific Island nation with colonial-era sodomy laws to formally decriminalize sex between men*. The new Crimes Decree removes all clauses about “sodomy” and “unnatural acts” and uses gender neutral language in the remainder of the sexual offences section. “We’d like to congratulate the Government of Fiji on taking a bold step by removing the punitive law,” said Stuart Watson, the Pacific Coordinator of UNAIDS. “This reform is an important milestone towards achieving a rights-respecting legal framework, not only for men who have sex with men but the entire community in Fiji.” HIV, the law and human rights in the Pacific In the UNAIDS Secretariat and UNDP reviewed the legislation of 15 Pacific Island countries relevant to HIV issues, i