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Fiji Water Response to Mother Jones Article & Mother Jones rejoinder
[Fiji Water]:We strongly disagree with the author’s premise that because we are in business in Fiji somehow that legitimizes a military dictatorship...[W]e believe that the private sector has a critical role to play to address the underserved areas of Fiji’s development, with special attention to economic opportunities, health, education, water and sanitation... [Mother Jones] "My piece doesn’t argue that Fiji Water actively props up the regime, but that its silence amounts to acquiescence...[A] UN official who in a recent commentary…called for sanctions on Fiji…singled out Fiji Water as the one company with enough leverage to force the junta to budge…