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Human rights in the Maldives, an archipelagic nation of 417,000 people off the coast of the Indian Subcontinent, [1] is a contentious issue. In its 2011 Freedom in the World report, Freedom House declared the Maldives "Partly Free", claiming a reform process which had made headway in 2009 and 2010 had stalled. [ 2 ]
The Human Rights Commission of the Maldives, a constitutionally-established independent body, published a report in August 2009 that contained strong trafficking-related recommendations including prosecutions for forced labor offenders and regulations of recruitment agencies.
Friends of Maldives (FOM) is a UK-based voluntary association and activist organisation promoting human rights reform and assisting development in the Maldives.. FOM was formed in December 2003 following the violent death of Evan Naseem on 19 September 2003 in Maafushi Prison, Maldives and the subsequent unrest in prisons which resulted in twenty people being shot and three killed. [1]
During the democratic uprising in the Maldives from 2003 to 2008, Suood defended criminal charges against hundreds of human rights and democracy activists in the Maldives, including the then Chairperson of the Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP), Mohamed Nasheed, (later elected as the President of the Maldives) against charges of terrorism. [2]
The objectives of the Commission include protecting, promoting and sustaining human rights in the Maldives "in accordance with Islamic Sharia and the Constitution of the Maldives". [ 23 ] In the United Nation's 2016 report of the Human Rights Council on its thirtieth session, it was noted that the Maldives accepted 198 recommendations made out ...
In his inaugural address, Gayoom promised various political reforms. Maumoon's first steps were to institute a human rights commission in 2003 to investigate abuses and to establish a constitutional assembly in May 2004 to draft a democratic constitution. The constitution was to guarantee separation of powers and a multi-party democracy. [4]
He was appointed the dean of the new Faculty of Sharia and Law at the Maldives National University in 2001, which he served until 2005. From 2005 to 2010, he was a Partner at a law firm as well as a member of the Human Rights Commission of the Maldives, the Law Commission of the Maldives and the Foreign Investment Board of the Maldives.
Action has been initiated to evolve a reformed criminal justice system in the country. The measures undertaken are in the form of establishing the Human Rights Commission of Maldives (HRCM). On 7 August 2008, a new constitution was ratified with incorporation of a clause on the bill of