Regional- and national-level training programmes are planned under a project on HIV prevention for incarcerated substance users in South Asia (Bangladesh, India, Maldives, Nepal and Sri Lanka);
Although progress had been made in the Maldives in that regard, including through the stationing of information officers in public offices and training in public awareness programmes, it was necessary to draw further on international best practices.
It noted the recommendation of the Committee on the Rights of the Child that Maldives ratify the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children.
If those predictions were accurate, Maldives and many other small island developing States would cease to exist within a relatively short period of time
Although a concrete assessment of the costs of graduation for Maldives has not been made, the “Vulnerability profile of Maldives” prepared by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) in April 2003 for use by the Committee for Development Policy in the review of the Maldives case, does highlight a number of critical issues that warrant the retention of Maldives on the least developed country list for the time being.
Countries that have not enacted separate disaster management laws, such as Maldives, Nepal and Timor-Leste, and most of the Central Asian countries are following this model.
On 3 November 2008, following the run-off in the first multi-party presidential elections in Maldives, the Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers welcomed the democratic transition process.
It recommended that Maldives: expedite efforts to draft and enact a Juvenile Justice Act in compliance with the Convention; raise the minimum age of criminal responsibility to at least 12 years; establish specialized juvenile courts; provide children in conflict with the law with access to education and; improve the condition of detention for children.
The tsunami created by the Sumatra earthquake that morning swept through the entire archipelago of the Maldives with awesome fury, taking lives, devastating infrastructure, crippling our economy and washing away decades of hard work and toil of our people.
The Department also notes that the Government of Maldives provides full funding for all programmes that are tailored for the development of the inmates.
project was conducted in the year # to build capacity of the health sector to address VAW/DV in Maldives. The specific activities under the project include
Earlier, the Economic and Social Council had endorsed the recommendation of the Committee for Development Policy to graduate Maldives in December 2007 (deferred to 2011 by the General Assembly due to the tsunami and its after-effects) and Samoa in July 2007.
His Government was also undertaking initiatives for the capacity-building and training of judges and lawyers and had recently appointed the first woman judge in the Maldives.
Maldives had engaged extensively with the World Trade Organization (WTO), including successfully campaigning to extend the application of the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) for itself and subsequently all least developed countries by seven years.
Given their meagre human and financial resources, for many small States like the Maldives, combating the increased activities of international terrorism has been an uphill battle.
The UNICEF quality education programme in the Maldives ensures an integrated, holistic approach to quality education that includes: (a) infrastructure development to “build back better” the schools that were damaged by the tsunami and to create child-friendly environments for children; (b) capacity-building of teachers and administrators on the importance of child-friendly schools; (c) curriculum revision to incorporate child-friendly approaches; and (d) support to parents to participate in their children’s education.
While in some countries the legal frameworks (policies and guidelines) were unclear, constraining the application of the concept to the specific sector planning and development, some countries have transformed the national team or core group into an apex body for coordinating the energy or water resources issues: in Sri Lanka, a presidential task force reviews water sector reforms; Myanmar is in the process of forming a water commission; Maldives has formed an Advisory Committee on Energy; and Viet Nam has established river basin organizations