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January 14, 2020

Maldives: Rights Reforms Falter

The Maldives government began to address longstanding human rights concerns in 2019, but yielded to pressure from extremist religious groups to crack down on free expression.

Asia

January 14, 2020 News Release

Maldives: Rights Reforms Falter
Environment

December 13, 2019 Dispatches

Reckless Development Worsens Maldives’ Environmental Crisis

Patricia Gossman
Associate Asia Director
Asia

October 11, 2019 News Release

Maldives: Human Rights Group Shut Down

Reports More Reports

August 16, 2018

“An All-Out Assault on Democracy”

Crushing Dissent in the Maldives

News

September 4, 2019 Dispatches

Hope for Justice for Murdered Journalist in the Maldives

Patricia Gossman
Associate Asia Director
January 28, 2019 Dispatches

Expressing Religious Views is Risky in the Maldives

Meenakshi Ganguly
South Asia Director
January 17, 2019 News Release

Maldives: Act on Human Rights Pledges
December 18, 2018 News Release

Maldives: New Government Should Promote Rights
October 26, 2018 Dispatches

Supreme Court Upholds Maldives Vote

Patricia Gossman
Associate Asia Director
September 26, 2018 Dispatches

Maldives’ Democratic Transition Under Threat

Patricia Gossman
Associate Asia Director
September 19, 2018 News Release

Maldives: Election Rigging Feared
September 12, 2018 Dispatches

Criticizing Government is a Costly Business in the Maldives

Meenakshi Ganguly
South Asia Director
August 27, 2018 Commentary

Families Beg for Answers on the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances

Meenakshi Ganguly
South Asia Director

Published In: news.com.au
August 24, 2018 Dispatches

No Need for Sorcery to Stifle Democracy in the Maldives

Patricia Gossman
Associate Asia Director
August 16, 2018 News Release

Maldives: Opposition, Media Under Attack
August 9, 2018 Dispatches

Maldives President’s Comments Raise Questions Over Missing Blogger’s Fate

World Report 2020

Maldives

Daily Brief

January 20, 2020

Peruvians with disabilities left off voting lists; UK should guarantee unaccompanied asylum-seeking children are reunited with their families; authors of CIA torture program to testify at Guantanamo; end abusive exit permits for migrant workers in Qatar; Hong Kong legislators should improve Privacy Ordinance rights protections; Cambodia pressed to drop charges against two journalists; step forward to end period poverty in England; and planning to commemorate 75 years after the liberation of Auschwitz.