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Continue reading →: New Solutions for New Problems
This evening, I went with my daughter to her school’s Family Fun Time which was organized by the Parent Teacher Association of the school. As we went around the “carnival of sorts” I noticed police officers in uniform posted around entrances and some cadets from the Maldives National Cadet Corps…
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Continue reading →: THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF CHILDREN
Universal Declaration of Human Rights (article 25& 26) Everyone has the right a standard of living adequate for … health and well-being…. Motherhood and childhood are entitled to special care and assistance. All children … shall enjoy the same social protection…. Everyone has the right to education….” Convention on the…
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Continue reading →: Sidelined Young Minds of the Maldives!
This evening I was with a group of friends, and I said that the single most important thing for uplifting the quality of life of Maldivians were the issues of housing and employment. I cannot imagine what happens when my younger in-laws and my son who are finishing school and…
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Continue reading →: CAWM Petition to the Chief Justice
A petition to the Chief Justice against child abuse leniency and “illiteracy” of the Maldivian Judges to the Rights of Children and civilized human values in general, has been put on ipetitions by CAWM. We would appreciate your support to the petition. http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/cawm001/ Thank you, CAWM
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Continue reading →: Recap: Blast from Commitments in the Past
The Minister of Women’s Affairs and Social Security, Republic of Maldives; speaking at the Special Session of the United Nations General Assembly on Children, 8-10 May 2002, New York; said, “Mr. President.Some of the major challenges before my country today include the geographical severity, diseconomies of scale due to the…
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Continue reading →: Do we really need another tsunami!
This afternoon a meeting of the executive committee of the Maldives National Chamber of Commerce and Industries (MNCCI) was called. However, the meeting was not held as a qourum was not present for the meeting. A number of committee members were either abroad or out of Male’ and some were…
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Continue reading →: Letter to Chief Justice
CAWM has drafter a letter to be sent to the Chief Justice by individuals who are interested in lobbying for a more responsible Judiciary. If you send a mail to cawmaldives@gmail.com with “Letter to Chief Justice” in the subject you will receive the template of the letter shortly. You may…
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Continue reading →: A School Bus Service: Now
Day before yesterday, I was at Thaajuddeen School to attend my daughter’s Parent Teacher Meeting. After the meeting, I brought her to the ferry terminal and called her mother to fetch her from the Villingili ferry terminal. After the ferry left, I tried to get a taxi to come back…
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Continue reading →: School Bus Service: Now
Yesterday I was at Thaajuddeen School to attend my daughter’s Parent Teacher Meeting. After the meeting, I brought her to the ferry terminal and called her mother to fetch her from the Villingili ferry terminal. After the ferry left, I tried to get a taxi to come back to the…
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Continue reading →: Educating the "illiterate" Judges of Maldives!
Haveeru reports that the verdict of the Criminal Court in the case of the four who raped a 12 year old girl in Kurendhu of Lhaviyani Atoll will be appealed by the Attorney General. The court had passed a verdict on the four people of having sex with a minor…
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Continue reading →: Inaya … cyber harassers targeting local girls!
Inaya says, in her Haveeru feature: It is one thing to take funny pictures and share it with friends and laugh at the good times, but quite another thing when those same pictures are on the web for the viewing pleasures of perverts, pedophiles and god knows what else! This…
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Continue reading →: Four suspects to be handed over to AG Office
Jazeera has reported that the investigation of the gang who raped and sexually abused a girl in Villingili, a satellite island of Male’, eight minutes from the main island; will be completed shortly and the case rested with the Attorney General’s Office. It was shocking to us, that the news…
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Continue reading →: Mob Rule and the Fear Factor!
Justice Jameel when he resigned this government said that he was leaving because there was no justice in this country. Shaheed said that he did not want to give himself up to the mob. Hassan Saeed said that it was impossible to go foward. Or something like that. Today the…
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Continue reading →: Mob Rule and the Fear Factor
Justice Jameel when he resigned this government said that he was leaving because there was no justice in this country. Shaheed said that he did not want to give himself up to the mob. Hassan Saeed said that it was impossible to go foward. Or something like that. Today the Speaker of the Maldivian Parliament…
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Continue reading →: Fighting Breaks out at the Special Majlis!
Today is a historic day for Maldives. A friend just told me that fighting has broken out between rival factions in the Special Majlis or the Upper House of Parliament. Haveeru also reported that the meeting was adjourned as it was not possible to proceed with the meeting. This is…
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Continue reading →: Fighting Breaks out in Parliament
Today is a historic day for Maldives. A friend just told me that fighting has broken out between rival factions in the Special Majlis or the Upper House of Parliament. Haveeru also reported that the meeting was adjourned as it was not possible to proceed with the meeting. This…
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Continue reading →: President for a Speedy Solution to Child Abuse!
“[…] The third issue that the President highlighted in his address was that of the rights of children and recent reports of cases of abuse against children. He emphasised that we, as a society, should be ashamed that such incidents were happening in the Maldives. He said that the issue…
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Continue reading →: A seven year old boy in ICU: condition is not so serious!
Haveeru Online has reported that a seven year old boy has been admitted to the ICU due to severe head injuries caused by an accident with a motorcyle while crossing the link road in Addu Atoll, near Hankede. A hospital official is reported to have said the boy in ICU…
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