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Death by popular demand

Death by popular demand

By Maldives Times 10 min read

The death penalty breeds injustice. It is most often imposed on  the persecuted or the underprivileged. As the civilised majority increases its commitments to abolish it, some countries have spiked up executions. This includes states that have resumed the death penalty after discontinuing long-standing moratoriums.  Apart from far-reaching authoritarianism, there doesn’t seem to be a […]

Maldives’ coral reefs: latest victims of political power play

Maldives’ coral reefs: latest victims of political power play

By Maldives Times 8 min read

by Ibrahim Mohamed The Maldives is a coral reef system, one-fifth the size of the Great Barrier Reef and is hailed as the 7th largest coral reef system on the Earth and is the largest atoll reef system. The reefs act as both the economical and structural backbone of the entire nation highly vulnerable to […]