The Fiji Human Rights Commission was created by presidential decree in 2009, succeeding the entity of the same name established as an independent statutory body under the 1997 Constitution of the Republic of the Fiji Islands.
Read more about Fiji Human Rights Commission: The 1997 Commission, The 2009 Commission
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