Pacific Sub Regional Centre: Governance in the Pacific

Human Rights are guaranteed on a national level by the Constitutions of all the Pacific Island Countries:

1. Australia
2. Cook Islands
3. Fiji
4. Kiribati
5. Marshall Islands
6. Micronesia (Federated States of)
7. Nauru
8. New Zealand
9. Niue
10. Palau
11. Papua New Guinea
12. Samoa
13. Solomon Islands
14. Tonga
15. Tuvalu
16. Vanuatu

Further, national human rights institutions play a leading role in the area of human rights. One such institution does exist in the Pacific – it is the Fiji Human Rights Commission established by the 1997 Constitution of the Republic of the Fiji Islands. The Commission is mandated to educate the public about human rights and to make recommendations to the government about matters affecting human rights.