MSP is a registered NGO established in Fiji, to provide women, youth and children with quality health care and social services, and to build resilience among vulnerable groups who are coping with emerging environmental, economic and human security challenges. We believe that healthy choices change lives. MSP programs work to support and improve the rights of women and girls through improved access to information and education, strengthened health and social services, more sustainable livelihoods, and greater economic opportunities, and by strengthening access to justice through the provision of information and resources.
Contact: Ashna Shaleen, Country Director
Phone: +679 928-2434
Address: 355 Waimanu Road, Private Mail Bag,
Suva, Fiji
Email: info@msp.org.fj
Website: https://msp.org.fj/
Year: 2019
Year: 2016
Year: 2016
Year: 2019
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Age of sexual consent is 16 years. The national legislation does not provide for a close-in-age exemption. However, if the person charged for the “act of indecency” wstatus as of a similar age to the child and consent was given in the context of a continuing friendship between the two.
ECO Fiji, 2019
Partial
Subsidiary active extraterritoriality is provided for SEC-related crimes committed by Fijian citizens, residents, and corporations, whenever those crimes are not punished by the country where they were committed. Passive extraterritoriality is not contemplated.
Extradition requires a minimum gravity of one year of imprisonment as well as double criminality.
ECO Fiji, Jun-19
No
The national legislation does not provide a definition of CSAM which is in line with international standards.
ECO Fiji, 2019
Not Yet Assessed
Partial
Fiji has ratified the CRC, the OPSC, the Trafficking Protocol and the ILO Convention No. 182.
Fiji has not ratified the OPIC, the UNWTO Framework Convention on Tourism Ethics and the Council of Europe’s Lanzarote and Budapest Conventions.
ECO Fiji, 2019
Not Yet Assessed
Partial
The main police unit including SEC in its mandate is the Human Trafficking Unit. However, the police anti-trafficking unit lacks dedicated and sufficient resources to conduct effective trafficking.
The Fiji Police Force is also mandated to collaborate with the Australian Federal Police to prevent SEC crimes committed by Australian nationals, which comprise the largest group of tourist visiting the island country.
ECO Fiji, 2019
Not Yet Assessed
No
Data on SEC cases is not publicly available.
ECO Fiji, 2019