A digest of news and opinion from the Maldives.
For years, human trafficking has been an issue plaguing the Maldives, a country where roughly a third of the resident population are expatriate labourers. Migrant workers in the Maldives face a range of entrenched abuses from employers, including deceptive recruitment practices, wage theft, passport confiscation, unsafe living and working conditions, and excessive work demands. Diplomatic […]
Parliament of Maldives, on last Tuesday, has begun debates over the amendments put forward to the Maldives Anti-Human Trafficking Act. Jeehan Mohamed, the Parliamentary representative of Lhaviyani Atoll’s Hinnavaru constituency proposed the most notable amendment in the bill which intends to expand the legal terminology of human trafficking. The current legal definition of human trafficking […]
The government has made it mandatory for businesses providing accommodation for ex-pats to register their business and any unregistered business is to be fined by MVR10,000. Apart from those individuals who provide accommodation to ex-pats, businesses that provide accommodation as a service are to abide by this law. This includes employers that handle the accommodation […]
The Maldives has recently been capturing global attention for its current situation with migrant workers, resulting in a lot of public concerns and demands. Out of the population amounting to 500,000 people in the nation, there are approximately 144,000 migrant workers with 44% of the workers undocumented. While the amount of migrant workers has been […]
The Maldives is an island nation of approximately 500,000 people. The latest statistics of census reveal that the Maldives consists as many as 144,000 Bangladeshis working in the country, with one-third of them amounting up to 63,000 having no valid documents or registration. This is a major amount among all the expatriate workers in the […]
As Maldives tries to grapple the community spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, it has managed to shed light into various other challenges that require attention. Human trafficking, worker rights, the housing crisis and food safety are issues speculated from time to time but the ongoing crisis has proved that these issues need to be addressed […]
The original Dhivehi article was published on Mihaaru.com website on 4th October 2018 The following is a loose translation: It is a sight commonly found in the Mediterranean sea, where refugees cross the ocean in seek of a better life in Europe. While attempting to cross the ocean in huge dinghies and boats, sometimes end […]