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 original Dhivehi article was published on Mihaaru.com website on 30th October 2017. The following is a loose translation: There are those who make hundreds of thousands per month by bringing Bangladeshi nationals to work. This is a big and growing business here in the Maldives. Apart from the Maldivians, Bangladeshis living in the Maldives […]