Prostitution in Fiji is legal, but most activities connected with it are illegal: brothel keeping, pimping and buying or selling sex in public. Many of the prostitutes are Asian , especially Chinese that provide sexual services for the growing number of tourists arriving in the country and also locals. Child trafficking is a problem [ 6 ] and many foundations are urging Fiji to crack down on child trafficking. The Crimes Decree [ 8 ] sets out the legislation regarding sex work and replaces the provisions of the earlier Penal Code.
Since new legislation was introduced in , there has been increased enforcement, especially towards transgender sex workers, street workers and their clients. Fiji is a source, destination, and transit country for women and children subjected to sex trafficking.
Family members, taxi drivers, foreign tourists, businessmen, and crew on foreign fishing vessels have allegedly exploited Fijian children in sex trafficking. Some Fijian children are at risk of trafficking as families follow a traditional practice of sending them to live with relatives or families in larger cities, where they may be subjected to coerced to engage in sexual activity in exchange for food, clothing, shelter, or school fees.
Women from China, Thailand , Malaysia , and other East Asian countries are deceptively recruited by the lure of legitimate jobs in their home countries or while visiting Fiji, sometimes by Chinese criminal organisations, and then exploited in illegal brothels posing as massage parlors and spas , local hotels and private homes.
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