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Maldives information and links for journalists, writers and reseachers
updated 7 December 2007
Major events and international
organisation reports
2004-2007
Maldives
Report 2007
Amnesty International
Maldives:
Judiciary under the President's thumb
Asian Centre for Human Rights
February 2007
Friends of Maldives - Three Reports
Maldives
- 3 years on and still no respect for Human Rights, November
2006 - 124k PDF.
Maldives
- A Police State, October 2005.
Separation
of Powers in Maldives, July 2004 - 54k PDF.
SAARC
Human Rights Report 2006
Asian Centre for Human Rights - 735k PDF
December 2006
Special
report from Raajje Foundation
Sexual Violence against Women in Detention in Maldives - 265 PDF
July 2006
A
report on a visit to Maldives by Benedict Rogers, Deputy Chairman of the
UK Conservative Human Rights Commission, 7-10 June 2006 - 208k PDF
June 2006
Special
Report from Reporters without Borders
A Vibrant Media Under Pressure: An Independent Assessment of Press Freedom
in Maldives - 275k PDF
July 2006
1900-2006 History
of Maldives timeline - 493k PDF
2006
Maldivian
Democratic Party's investigation and report of NSS assaults in Fares-Maathodaa
island, southern Huvadhu atoll - 114k PDF
10 January 2006
NSS
video of Fares_Maathodaa attack 5 January 2006 - 15.8mg MPEG
Dhivehi Observer
Past
torture campaign in Maagoodhoo
Maagoodhoo Residents Relate Harrowing Accounts of Torture at the Hands of
Former Atoll Chief
Minivan News 11 Jan 2006
Interpol letter to the French-based Reporters Without Borders organisation,
denies that Interpol channels of communication were used to transmit messages
from Maldives - 165k PDF
6 January 2006
125
million rufiya (US$10 million) Paid to President's Cronies - the Presidential
Special Assistance Loans Scandal
Maldives Culture translation from Adduvas 27 December
2005
Hilton
hits on Mandhoo: No room for ethics in Maldives resort
Dhivehi Observer 6 November 2005
Buildings
Galore for the Maldives elite:
The Culture of Discontentment and The 'Haazaa Economy'
Dhivehi Observer October 2005
Intolerance
in the name of national purity: the ideology behind Gayyoom's attacks on
practising Christians in Maldives.
Muslim by law - a right or a violation of rights? A study about the Maldives
- 365k PDF
July 2005
Over
38,000 Maldivians tortured during rule of President Maumoon Gayyoom
May 2005
Friends
of Maldives - Victims of Gayyoom plot
first published in Minivan News 30 April 2005
Updated 6 May 2005
Asian
Centre for Human Rights - Maldives: The Dark Side of Life - 152k PDF
May 2005
Ibrahim
Ismail pushes torture issue in the Majlis
from Minivan News 15 April 2005
Mohamed Nasheed (Anni)
Maldives Culture research archive
MDP
Threatens Widespread Civil Disobedience
Minivan News, 1 November 2005
Report
of the September 2005 UK Lawyers' delegation to the Republic of Maldives
to assess prospects of a fair trial for persons facing prosecution for terrorism
and crimes against the state. Report by English common law and Islamic law
specialists - 155k PDF
Declaration
by the European Union Presidency on recent disturbances (12-14 August 2005)
in Maldives
Brussels 2 September 2005
Amnesty
International Maldives Report
February 2005 - 230k PDF
Maldives
Parliamentary Elections
22 January 2005 - 155k PDF
'Why the Thumbs-up,
the Cactus and the Conch shell couldn’t survive' - article in Maverick#5
January 2005 - 165k PDF
US
National Democratic Institute for International Affairs - Assessment of
the Opportunities and the Challenges to the Development of Political Parties
in the Maldives
December 2004 - 420k PDF
Maldives appoints
top spy and torturer as ambassador to India
originally published in Dhivehi Observer 22
October 2004
Rape and
Torture in Maldives and the role of Isthafa Ibrahim Manik
first published in Dhivehi Observer 13 October
2004
Abbas Ibrahim - a career of propaganda, intimidation and dirty tricks in
Maldives
first published in Dhivehi Observer 29 October
2004
Robinson
report on Maldives justice system
July 2004 - 60k PDF
Maldives Culture is an independent internet magazine of Maldive cultural issues.
Editors and translators: Michael O'Shea and Fareesha Abdulla, Australia
We invite contributions from Maldivians and others interested in Maldives.
Contributions and comments - editors@maldivesculture.com
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