The Fiji Human Rights Commission has formally sent the Report of the Independent Inquiry into the 2006 Elections to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and FHRC's affiliated bodies as the latest in a series of reports sent to the United Nations on its work since December 2006.
In a statement released, the FHRC said that the Inquiry report was done to find out whether and to what extent the right to vote of the people of Fiji was respected in the 2006 elections, and also to find out whether the elections of 2006 had been free and fair.
The Commission went on to say that in view of the fact that the United Nations had not sent an observer team to observe the human rights aspects of the 2006 elections, the FHRC needed to investigate whether the right of the people of Fiji to vote had been fully respected in the 2006 elections.
The FHRC will provide on-going reports to the UN on the Fiji situation and the work of the FHRC itself in monitoring human rights abuses since 2006 and it has also called on the UN, especially the UN High Commissioner's Office to be specifically cautious in assessing the situation in Fiji.
FHRC sends election report to UN
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