of the coup d'état which deposed the elected government in May 2000. Caucau had expressed sympathy for some of the individuals imprisoned for their involvement in the coup, and had attempted to visit the chief instigator, George Speight at his Nukulau Island prison, later saying that she wanted to pray with him and the prisoners. Call for journalists to be "responsible" Caucau, who worked as journalist herself whilst pursuing her university studies in Nebraska in the United States, has periodically attacked the media for what she considers to be biased journalism. For the second time in less than a year, she declared at a workshop in Nabua in late January 2005 that reporters should be more sensitive when reporting incidents of violence against women, she said, and claimed to have been a frequent victim of journalists quoting her out of context. On the whole, journalists should attempt to focus a lot more on positive rather than negative news, she maintained. "I ask the media to concentrate on positive things rather than just doing the rounds on rape, incest, molestation on women," she said. "There seems to be a lot of love-hate relationships in Fiji today, between so many and the media, simply because there are so many negative reporting and a serious lack of understanding on journalists' part on working on reports or their stories," she added. Caucau likened negative journalism to "a bad wound that can fester and spread a nasty smell." She said that journalists should be held accountable for the reports they produced. She was reiterating earlier comments she had made at the Pacific Regional Office for the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) and AusAID. Human trafficking allegations Caucau found herself embroiled in controversy when she claimed at a workshop on violence against children on 27 September 2005 that fathers throughout Fiji have been selling their daughters into prostitution in a "readily available" human trafficking market. Her allegations came on top of claims by Opposition Senator Ponipate Lesavua that teenage prostitution was commonplace. Leader Mick Beddoes of the United Peoples Party and Kamlesh Arya, president of the Hindu Arya Pratindhi Sabha organization said that her claims were very serious, and that she should substantiate them with real facts. Beddoes called for a police investigation. "Beggars are well-off" Caucau made headlines again on 7 November 2005, claiming that many beggars were imposters. Many were professionals who