| No |
Recommendation |
Convention/Treaty Body |
| CEDAW - 15 |
The State party should:
(a) Strengthen the status and structure of the newly restructured Ministry of Law and Gender and provide it with adequate decision-making powers to enable it to develop sustainable policies and programmes aimed at achieving gender equality in a comprehensive manner and to effectively coordinate gender mainstreaming at all levels;
(b) Allocate sufficient and sustainable human and financial resources to the national machinery for its effective functioning in all areas of women’s empowerment and to enable it to provide systematic training to staff and officials of other ministries and ensure that the Convention and the Committee’s general recommendations are sufficiently known;
(c) Establish impact assessment mechanisms for the gender equality policy to ensure that it is adequately monitored and evaluated, with a view to informing further policies. |
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women |
| CEDAW - 23 |
The State party should:
adopt specific legislation, within a clear time frame, to criminalize marital rape without any exemptions;
(a) To ensure the effective implementation of the Domestic Violence Prevention Act, including by allocating adequate financial resources for the implementation of the Domestic Violence Prevention National Strategy, and establish mechanisms to ensure that law enforcement officers respond to and investigate complaints regarding violence against women and that perpetrators are prosecuted and punished;
(b) To put in place an effective system to monitor and evaluate the implementation, effectiveness and impact of the new legislative framework and collect disaggregated data on the number of prosecutions and convictions of perpetrators;
(c) To strengthen victim assistance and rehabilitation by establishing a comprehensive care system for women who are victims of violence, including medical and psychological support, counselling and rehabilitation services, throughout the territory of the State party and, to that end, increase the effectiveness of the family and protection services centres and safe houses by providing adequate funding and trained personnel;
(d) To disseminate clear information aimed at specific groups, including teenage girls and migrant women, on the criminalization of various forms of violence under the new legislative framework;
(e) To develop measures to encourage women to lodge criminal complaints, and to eliminate the stereotyping and stigmatization faced by women who are victims of violence and claim their rights. |
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women |
| CEDAW - 31 |
The State party should revise its nationality laws in order to remove discrimination against foreign women who have children with Maldivian men out of wedlock with regard to the transmission of nationality. |
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women |
| CEDAW - 7 |
The Committee stressed the crucial role of the legislative power in ensuring the full implementation of the Convention (see the statement by the Committee on its relationship with parliamentarians, adopted at the forty-fifth session, in 2010). It invites the People’s Majlis, in line with its mandate, to take the necessary steps regarding the implementation of the present concluding observations between now and the next reporting period under the Convention. |
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women |
| CEDAW - 11 |
The State party should:
(a) take steps to ensure the incorporation of the Convention into the State party’s national legal system in order to make its provisions directly applicable and enforceable by the courts;
(b) expeditiously adopt the gender equality bill and ensure that it includes a definition of discrimination, in conformity with article 1 of the Convention, encompassing both direct and indirect discrimination in the public and private spheres, as well as the principle of gender equality, in line with article 2 of the Convention;
(c) conduct a systematic gender review of its legislation as part of the ongoing legal reform with a view to bringing it into full compliance with the Convention and ensuring that all discriminatory provisions, including family and criminal law provisions, are repealed or amended;
(d) enact the regulations required for the full implementation of the Domestic Violence Prevention Act (2012) and the Prevention of Human Trafficking Act (2013). |
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women |
| 2021-10(a) |
Implement institutional, legislative and policy measures to redress long-standing inequalities between women and men and to give a new impetus to the achievement of gender equality by placing women at the centre of the recovery as a strategic priority for sustainable change, in line with the Sustainable Development Goals |
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women |
| 2021-8 |
The Committee stresses the crucial role of the legislative power in ensuring the full implementation of the Convention (see A/65/38, part two, annex VI). It invites the People’s Majlis, in line with its mandate, to take the necessary steps regarding the implementation of the present concluding observations between now and the submission of the next periodic report under the Convention. |
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women |
| 2021-7 |
The Committee welcomes the international support for the Sustainable Development Goals and calls for the realization of de jure (legal) and de facto (substantive) gender equality, in accordance with the provisions of the Convention, throughout the process of implementing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The Committee recalls the importance of Goal 5 and of the mainstreaming of the principles of equality and non-discrimination throughout all 17 Goals. It urges the State party to recognize women as the driving force of the sustainable development of the State party and to adopt relevant policies and strategies to that effect. |
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women |
| 2021-10(c) |
Ensure the equal participation of women and girls in political and public life, decision-making, economic empowerment and service delivery, in particular in the design and implementation of recovery programmes, including for disadvantaged and marginalized groups of women and those living in the outer islands |
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women |
| 2021-14(a) |
Fully incorporate the Convention into the national legal system in order to make its provisions directly applicable and enforceable by the courts |
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women |
| 2021-16.(a) |
Enhance women’s awareness of their rights and disseminate information on the remedies available to claim violations of their rights |
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women |
| 2021-16.(b) |
Strengthen the independence of the judiciary; establish legal remedies, including procedural accommodations, that are expeditious and accessible to women; and ensure through adequate regulations and procedures that women who report violations, especially in cases of gender-based violence, are treated in a gender-sensitive manner at all stages of judicial proceedings |
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women |
| 2021-18.(a) |
Expedite the adoption of the Gender Equality Action Plan and of regulations establishing a reporting mechanism and gender focal points in all ministries and departments |
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women |
| 2021-18.(b) |
Ensure that the National Women’s Machinery within the Ministry of Gender, Family and Social Services has adequate human and financial resources to carry out its mandate throughout the State party’s territory, including the outer islands; effectively coordinate gender mainstreaming at all levels; and enable the National Women’s Machinery to provide systematic training to staff and officials of other ministries |
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women |
| 2021-18.(c) |
Involve members of the Women’s Development Committees and Island Councils in capacity-building on gender and women’s empowerment to support the work of the Women’s Machinery, especially in the outer atolls |
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women |
| 2021-18.(d) |
Establish impact assessment mechanisms for the Gender Equality Action Plan and ensure that it is adequately monitored and evaluated, with a view to informing further policies |
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women |
| 2021-20 |
The Committee recommends that the State party ensure that the Human Rights Commission has adequate human, technical and financial resources to discharge its mandate to work on women’s rights, in accordance with the principles relating to the status of national institutions for the promotion and protection of human rights (the Paris Principles). |
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women |
| 2021-22.(a) |
Prevent reprisals against women human rights defenders, ensure their protection from violence and intimidation, and investigate, prosecute and adequately punish all threats and harassment against them |
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women |
| 2021-22.(b) |
Guarantee that women human rights defenders and activists can freely carry out their advocacy for women’s human rights and exercise their rights to freedom of expression, peaceful assembly and association, without harassment, surveillance or other undue restrictions |
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women |
| 2021-22.(c) |
Expedite the adoption of the bill on associations as well as the bill criminalizing hate speech |
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women |
| 2021-28.(a) |
Amend section 52 of the Sexual Offences Act and section 47 of the Special Provisions Act to Deal with Child Sex Abuse Offenders to remove excessive evidence requirements for victims to prove sexual violence; |
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women |
| 2021 - 28.(b) |
Amend section 53 of the Sexual Offences Act to ensure that discriminatory gender stereotypes relating to delayed reporting, false accusations and women’s “dignity and discipline” are removed from the adjudication of sexual violence cases and discontinue practices that contribute to secondary victimization of women, such as examining a victim’s prior sexual behaviour |
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women |
| 2021 - 28.(c) |
Criminalize female genital mutilation/cutting and provide education and information on the criminal nature and harmful effects of the practice, take proactive measures to protect women and girls from female genital mutilation/cutting, and prosecute clerics promoting the practice |
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women |
| 2021 - 28.(d) |
Criminalize marital rape in all circumstances, without exception, and amend the Sexual Offences Act and the Penal Code accordingly |
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women |
| 2021 - 28.(e) |
Strengthen referral mechanisms to avoid communication gaps in reporting and ensure that judges, prosecutors and the police are adequately trained in gender-sensitive investigation and interrogation methods, especially in cases of sexual violence |
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women |
| 2021-28.(f) |
Allocate sufficient funding to shelters, which must be accessible; establish guidelines and mechanisms to monitor them; and provide adequate support services, rehabilitation and remedies to survivors of gender-based violence, as per the Domestic Violence Prevention Act |
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women |
| 2021- 28.(g) |
Initiate, without delay, the nationwide survey on the prevalence of domestic violence in the State party, including gender-based violence, scheduled to commence in 2022, and use it as a basis for policymaking |
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women |
| 2021 - 28.(h) |
Extend the National Campaign to raise awareness on gender-based violence and domestic violence; include awareness of online gender-based violence; and collect and publish statistical data on all forms of sexual violence, including marital rape, disaggregating the data by the victims’ sex, the victims’ age, the relationship between the victims and the perpetrator, and in relation to intersecting forms of discrimination against women and other relevant sociodemographic characteristics, such as disability and nationality |
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women |
| 2021 - 28.(i) |
Review its current legislation, including the Penal Code and the law on domestic violence, to ensure that domestic violence is specifically criminalized, can be prosecuted ex officio and is sanctioned with appropriate penalties commensurate with the gravity of the abuse |
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women |
| 2021 - 48 |
In line with its general recommendation No. 37 (2018) on the gender-related dimensions of disaster risk reduction in the context of climate change, the Committee recommends that the State party ensure that women are represented and participate in the development of legislation, policies and programmes on climate change, disaster response and disaster risk reduction. It also recommends that the State party integrate a gender perspective into such plans and policies and ensure that women, in particular rural women, are consulted as part of their development. It further recommends that the State party take measures to address the impact of climate change specifically on women’s access to resources and livelihoods, so as to ensure that they are not disproportionately affected |
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women |
| 2021-56 |
The Committee calls upon the State party to give priority to the National Strategy for the Development of Statistics and to the systematic collection of comprehensive sex-disaggregated data and measurable indicators to assess trends in the situation of women and the progress made in achieving substantive equality, and draws the State party’s attention to the Committee’s general recommendation No. 9 (1989) on statistical data concerning the situation of women. |
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women |
| 2021-59 |
The Committee recommends that the State party link the implementation of the Convention to its development efforts and that it avail itself of regional or international technical assistance in this respect |
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women |