Country Overview
Fiji
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Same-sex Relations for Men Legal Throughout the Country?
Same-sex Relations for Women Legal Throughout the Country?
Legal Gender Recognition Possible?
LGBTI Orgs Able to Register?
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Fiji has made progress on LGBTIQ equality in the last decade. However, LGBTIQ people still face barriers to full equality. Same-sex relations were decriminalized in 2010, 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 2007 and prohibits health professionals from attempting to change 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 2024, 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.
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