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Fiji hopes a Truth and Reconciliation Commission on its history of violent coups can heal the divisions between its two main ...
SUVA, Fiji — In the Wailea squatter settlement on the outskirts of this capital, indigenous Fijians and Indian descendants of sugar-cane workers live side by side in squalor. In this land of ...
Fiji’s first coup in 1987 saw an elected, Indian-dominated coalition overthrown by indigenous Fijians, leading to the implementation, and later withdrawal, of a constitution that guaranteed ...
Fiji’s first verified forest carbon credit project is based in the Drawa rainforest on the country’s largest island, and has been earning income for its Indigenous landowners for five years ...
Starting in 1987, Fiji saw a number of military coups d’état, in which indigenous Fijian military officers sought to curb the rising political power of the Indo-Fijian community, which was ...
Indigenous Fijian rebels freed nine of their 27 government captives today, moving Fiji closer to the end of a nearly two-month crisis. Other rebels seized a beach resort where “The Blue Lagoon ...
Growing up in Fiji in the South Pacific, ... The 24-year-old Ratulu has never owned a boat, but he is primed to become the first I-Taukei Indigenous sailor to compete at the Olympics.
Each indigenous Fijian family belongs to a village that owns the land it’s on. It’s like a clan, she explained. And only indigenous Fijians can own land.
Indigenous religious practices in Fiji consisted of ancestor worship and animism, but today just over 60 percent of the population is Christian, 27 percent Hindu, and 9 percent Muslim.
For generations, Indigenous iTaukei people in Fiji have not only protected a loved one’s burial grounds, but also freshwater ...
Fiji’s first coup in 1987 saw an elected, Indian-dominated coalition overthrown by indigenous Fijians, leading to the implementation, and later withdrawal, of a constitution that guaranteed ...