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- South Asian giants' fillip on LGBT discourse
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Jun 29, 2016
The LGBT discourse in Pakistan and India has been reignited, thanks to a decree by a Pakistani religious group and a petition before India's Supreme Court
[Maldives] [Pakistan] [Bangaldesh] [Bangladesh] [Bisexuals] [Bhutan] [Sri Lanka] [South Asia] [India] [Afghanistan] - Maldives competes for UNHRC membership
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Apr 26, 2010
Maldives has secured the seat of UN Human Rights Council membership among the 13 seats allocated for Asian countries. Minister of Foreign Affairs noted that once the country secures its membership in July, voices of small nations, especially the climate impacts faced by small island nations will get due representation.
[Human rights] [South Asia] [Maldives] [United Nations] - UN comes to the rescue of children in Maldives
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Dec 31, 2009
Child neglect and abuse have for long plagued the traditional society of the Maldives. But now the UN-backed social service programmes are dealing with the issue.
[Human rights] [South Asia] [Maldives] [Children] [United Nations] - Maldives approaching ‘critical juncture’ with upcoming elections
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May 10, 2013
The upcoming elections in the Maldives represent an important opportunity to move forward with its democratic transition, a senior United Nations official stressed, as he wrapped up a three-day visit to the country.
[Maldives] [Democracy] [Elections] [South Asia] - Powering the island nation of Maldives
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Aug 17, 2012
Round-the-clock electricity in the Maldives can be both a lifesaver and life-changer on remote islands, where until recently it only occasionally lit up the evenings.
[Development] [Electricity] [Maldives] - Amnesty accuses Maldives regime of human rights abuses
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Sep 06, 2012
Rights group Amnesty International has accused the Maldivian regime of carrying out a campaign of violent repression, and said there would not be any meaningful reconciliation in the unrest-hit country without an end to abuses.
[Human rights] [South Asia] [Maldives] - Maldives formalises the enactment of sustainable fishing practices
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Aug 08, 2012
The Cabinet of Maldives has formalised its decision to impose the enactment of the sustainable Grouper Fisheries, and enforce the monitoring of the fishing practices involved in trade as part of its official sustainability plan.
[Environment] [South Asia] [Maldives] - Maldives to get a makeover
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Aug 13, 2012
The Maldives government is in a joint venture with the architectural firm Dutch Docklands International for the world’s largest artificial floating-island project. Dutch designers from Waterstudio as part of the collaboration will construct a network of floating islands for luxury residences, hotels, convention center, yacht club and a floating golf course.
[Environment] [Maldives] [Tourism] - The Maldives' battle against extinction
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Nov 10, 2009
Maldivian President Mohamed Nasheed hopes nations most vulnerable to climate change will set an example to richer countries. The country is taking several measures to adopt cleaner technologies.
[Climate change] [Maldives] [South Asia] [Renewable energy] - UN Secy-Gen urges restraint from parties in Maldives
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Feb 15, 2013
The former President of Maldives, Nasheed, has taken refuge in the Indian High Commission and his party has said that he would not leave the place until a caretaker government is set up.
[United Nations] [Maldives] [South Asia] - Presidential poll begins in Maldives
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Oct 08, 2008
Polling in the Maldives for the first ever multi-party presidential election has begun today. President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, who has been at the helm of affairs for last three decades and known for his dictatorial style, is seeking re-election for the seventh term.
[South Asia] [Maldives] [Governance] [Democracy] - Fifth SAARC Energy Ministers Meeting begins Thursday
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Oct 15, 2014
The agenda of the meeting include review of status of implementation of decisions of the Fourth Meeting of SAARC Energy Ministers held in Dhaka, on 15 September 2011.
[Bhutan] [Maldives] [India] [Afghanistan] - Maldives to get early warning alerts via SMS
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Sep 02, 2009
Facing increased threats triggered by climate change, Maldives will soon receive text based early warning alerts for disasters. Cell broadcasting, a technology will enable delivery of information to multiple users simultaneously in a specified area.
[South Asia] [Maldives] [Disasters] [ICT] - Digital classrooms encouraging learning in Maldives
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Jun 30, 2010
Maldives has introduced digital classrooms to spark interest in learning among students, thereby enabling the country to meet its goal on education. With the success in attention in the country’s oldest school, the government plans to replicate the pilot project in other schools.
[South Asia] [Maldives] [Education] [ICT] - New activist president for Maldives
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Oct 31, 2008
For Maldivians he is their own version of Nelson Mandela. Mohamed Nasheed has traveled a long distance from being an Amnesty International prisoner of conscience to becoming the president of the archipelago nation, ending the three-decade old rule of Maumoon Abdul Gayoom.
[South Asia] [Activism] [Maldives] [Governance] [Democracy] - Catastrophe awaits the Maldives
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Jan 15, 2009
Hundred years may seem too far when it is projected that most of the 1,192 islands forming the Maldives will be submerged under water due to rising sea levels – a consequence of global warming. Locals, however, say flooding, tidal surges and erosion have already become part of their lives.
[Climate change] [Maldives] [South Asia] [Tourism] [Livelihoods] - Fighting drug addiction in Maldives
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Mar 17, 2009
Drug addiction among adolescents in the Maldives has emerged as a big health hazard and has come to pose a serious threat for the social fabric of the country. UNICEF is working with local NGOs and authorities to provide counselling and detoxification treatment to addicts.
[Maldives] [Drugs] [Health] [South Asia] [AIDS] [United Nations] - Maldives to become world's first carbon-neutral country
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Mar 19, 2009
Maldivian President has announced his government's plan to make the country 'carbon-neutral' in next 10 years. The government is working with international climate energy experts to bring about a “radical shift” from fossil fuel to allow the island nation achieve its goal.
[Environment] [Climate change] [Energy] [Maldives] [South Asia] - Maldives to lead renewable energy initiatives in South Asia
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Jan 18, 2013
Acknowledging Maldives’ commitment towards the global environment movement, Maldives has been elected as the Vice Chair of the Assembly of International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA). IRENA was officially established in Bonn, Germany, on 26 January 2009 to promote rapid transition towards the widespread and sustainable use of renewable energy on a global scale.
[South Asia] [Maldives] [Renewable energy] - Maldives hosts climate meet to bridge gaps
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Jul 19, 2010
Maldives organised the second gathering of the Cartegena Group from July 17-18, near Male to bring progressive thinkers from the developing and rich countries to reaffirm commitments to a low carbon economy. President Nasheed emphasised the need for consensus on core climate issue lest countries like Maldives perish.
[Conference] [Climate change] [Maldives] [South Asia] - Maldives passes bill to establish Supreme Court
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Aug 12, 2010
The long delayed legislation for the establishment of a supreme court in Maldives has been passed; putting an end to power struggle and enabling a fully functioning and independent legal system within Maldives' young democracy.
[South Asia] [Maldives] [Law] [Democracy] - Maldives: Stop the harassment of NGOs
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Apr 05, 2013
With the recent announcement of shutitng down many NGOs in Maldives; CIVICUS, the Voice of Women and the Maldives NGO Federation urge the Government of Maldives to stop harassing NGOs who are the watchdogs of civil society. They are also demanding the government to put in place measures to ensure free and fair elections later this year.
[Human Rights] [Maldives] [NGOs] [Governance] [Civil Society] [CIVICUS] - Maldives website to speed transition to carbon neutrality
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Sep 26, 2011
The Government of the Maldives has launched a crowdsourcing website seeking help from world's experts on its plans to be carbon neutral by 2020. The tiny nation aims to produce the bulk of its electricity through photovoltaics.
[Climate change] [Maldives] [Technology] [ICT] - Linking development to carbon emissions is silly: Maldives President
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Dec 06, 2010
Maldives President Mohamed Nasheed urges both developed and developing countries alike to cut carbon emissions, arguing that it is ‘silly’ to equate the need to develop with the right to emit more carbon. On its part, Maldives is working to develop a low carbon strategy and aims to become carbon neutral by 2020.
[Maldives] [Climate change] [Conservation] [Emissions] [Renewable energy] [South Asia] - Film highlights Maldives’ crusade against climate change
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Sep 05, 2011
A documentary being screened at the Telluride Film Festival follows Maldivian President as he takes bold measures to build international consensus on lowering carbon emissions. The task entails convincing some of the most powerful nations to enact substantial changes in this direction.
[Climate change] [Maldives] [South Asia] - Maldives struggles to achieve gender MDG
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Sep 20, 2011
Though half of the population of Maldives are women, religious fundamentalism coupled with insensitivity has resulted in gender inequalities in the nation. However, Maldives is the only South Asian nation to achieve five out of eight MDGs before 2015.
[Discrimination] [Maldives] [South Asia] [Gender] - Maldives to clean its 'rubbish island'
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Dec 08, 2011
The government of Maldives has banned garbage dumping from its resorts in an island used entirely as garbage dump.
[Environment] [South Asia] [Maldives] [Waste] - Expat worker's murder sparks rights debate in Maldives
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Nov 29, 2012
The Maldive's Human Rights Commission has called for end to discrimination against foreign workers following murder of a Bangladeshi worker.
[Human rights] [South Asia] [Maldives] - Maldives keen to take docs, medicines from Bangladesh
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Apr 03, 2013
Maldives has expressed its interest to recruit physicians and import pharmaceutical products from Bangladesh, said the Maldivian health minister Dr Ahmed Jamsheed Mohamed on Monday.
[Medicines] [Bangladesh] [Health sector] [South Asia] [Maldives] - Maldives Presidential candidates agree on 9th Nov poll
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Nov 07, 2013
As per the Maldivian Constitution, the election process should be completed in such a manner that a new President takes office by the deadline of 11th November.
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