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As well as the rest of the world, Fiji had been influenced by the financial crisis of 2007–2008 before the constitutional crisis began. Fiji's foreign currency reserves had fallen by 1/3 during 2008 and, in February 2009, Standard and Poor's downgraded Fiji's long term credit rating from stable to negative. [20]
Fiji: 2009 Suspended the Constitution during a constitutional crisis. Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (headed by Mohamed Hussein Tantawi) Egypt: 2011–2012 Suspended the Constitution of 1971 during the 2011 Egyptian revolution. [6] Prayut Chan-o-cha Thailand: 2014–2019 Suspended the Constitution after a military coup.
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Pages in category "2009 in Fiji" ... 2009 Fijian constitutional crisis; P. People's Charter for Change, Peace and Progress ...
The mutiny that took place at Fiji's Queen Elizabeth Barracks in Suva on 2 November 2000 resulted in the death of four loyal soldiers. Four of the rebels were subsequently beaten to death after the rebellion had been quelled.
The Constitution defined the Commission's purpose as to protect and promote human rights for the people of Fiji and to help build and strengthen a culture of human rights in Fiji. The mandate of the Commission, set out in the Human Rights Commission Act 1999, [ 1 ] was to educate the general public about human rights and to make recommendations ...
Fiji became a member of the United Nations on 13 October 1970. [2] Fiji has acceded to some, but not the majority, of the key human rights treaties. It is a party to the conventions against racism (Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination) and discrimination against women (Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women), and on the rights ...
The Media Industry Development Act 2010 (MIDA) was a law of Fiji which regulates the media. The law was promulgated by the military regime which seized power in the 2006 Fijian coup d'état, in the wake of the 2009 Fijian constitutional crisis, and required media organisations to be 90% Fijian-owned and forbade news reporting "against the national interest or public order", with repressive ...
The Prime Minister is elected by Parliament, under the 2013 Constitution of Fiji. Under the former constitution, which was abrogated at the behest of the Military-backed interim government in 2009, the Prime Minister was formally appointed by the President, but had to be acceptable to a majority of the House of Representatives.