| No |
Recommendation |
Convention/Treaty Body |
| CRC OP- 6 |
The Committee recommends that the State party expedite the establishment of a national database in order to ensure that data relating to areas covered by the Optional Protocol, disaggregated inter alia, by age, sex, minority group and origin, are systematically collected and analysed as they provide essential tools for measuring policy implementation |
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| CRC OP- 10 |
The Committee recommends that State party review the coordination of child rights, and in particular, of the Optional Protocol as soon as possible and ensure that the responsible authority have a clear mandate and adequate human and financial resources in order to ensure the effective implementation of the Optional Protocol |
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| CRC OP- 12 |
The Committee encourages the State party to adopt and implement a comprehensive national plan of action for children and ensure that it takes into account both the Optional Protocols as well as the Convention on the Rights of the Child. |
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| CRC OP- 14 (a) |
The Committee recommends that the State party:
(a) Make the provisions of the Optional Protocol widely known, particularly to children, their families and communities, through, inter alia, school curricula and long-term awareness-raising campaigns |
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| CRC OP- 14 (b) |
The Committee recommends that the State party:
(b) Promote, in line with article 9, paragraph 2 of the Optional Protocol, awareness in the public at large, including children, through information by all appropriate means, education and training, about the preventive measures and harmful effects of the offences referred to in the Optional Protocol, including by encouraging the participation of the community and, in particular, children and child victims, in such information, education and training programmes; |
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| CRC OP- 14 (c) |
The Committee recommends that the State party:
(c) Develop further cooperation with NGOs, civil society organizations and the media in order to support awareness-raising and training activities on issues related to the Optional Protocol; |
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| CRC OP- 16 |
The Committee recommends that the State party increase budget allocations for the coordination, prevention, promotion, protection, care, investigation and suppression of acts covered by the Optional Protocol, including by earmarking human and financial resources for the implementation of programmes relating to its provisions, and in particular for criminal investigations, legal assistance and physical and psychological recovery of victims to relevant authorities and civil society organizations. |
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| CRC OP- 18 |
The Committee recommends that the State party ensure that adequate human and financial resources are allocated to the Human Rights Commission of the Maldives (HRCM) to enable it to discharge all of its mandated activities in line with the principles relating to the status of national institutions for the promotion and protection of human rights (the Paris Principles) (General Assembly resolution 48/134, annex). The Committee underlines the importance that the State party respect the independence of the HRCM and not interfere unduly with regards to budget allocations and appointment of its members. The Committee recommends that the State party take into account the Committee’s general comment No. 2 (2002) on the role of independent human rights institutions in the protection and promotion of the rights of the child, in order to enable the HRCM to pay due attention to the concerns of children, e.g. by establishing a children’s rights unit in order to be easily accessible for children at the local level and to facilitate dealing with complaints by or on behalf of children in a child-sensitive manner by well trained staff, and when cases have been referred to authorities ensure that they are followed up on by the HRCM. |
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| CRC OP- 19 |
The Committee welcomes the ongoing collaboration with Civil Society and encourages the State party to further strengthen such partnerships, particularly in relation to the implementation of the concluding observations, the evaluation of progress made and also in the context of the next reporting process under the Convention and its Optional Protocols. |
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| CRC OP- 21 |
The Committee recommends that the State party ensure that the Child Protection Unit within the Maldives Police Service is accessible to children and provided with adequate human and financial resources. |
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| CRC OP- 14 (d) |
The Committee recommends that the State party:
(d) Continue and strengthen gender-sensitive education and training on the provisions of the Optional Protocol for all professional groups, in particular for the judiciary through the Judicial Services Commission and for law enforcement officials working with child victims of the crimes covered by the Optional Protocol. |
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| CRC OP- 23 |
The Committee recommends that the State party take additional preventive measures to combat drug abuse. Furthermore, the committee reiterates its recommendation from 2007 (CRC/C/MDV/CO/3, para. 93) that the State party pay particular attention to the existing risk factors, such as increasing child sex tourism in the region, and continue to collaborate with the Maldives Tourism Promotion Board (MTPB) and tourism service providers in this respect in order to better meet the Code of Conduct set up by the World Tourism Organisation on the protection of children from commercial sexual exploitation in travel and tourism. |
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| CRC OP- 25 |
The Committee recommends that the State Party expedite the ongoing legal reform and bring its Penal Code in full compliance with articles 2 and 3 of the Optional Protocol |
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| CRC OP- 26 |
The Committee recommends that the State party ratify the Optional Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, the ILO Convention No. 182 (1999 concerning the Prohibition and Immediate Action for the Elimination of the Worst Forms of Child Labour as well as the Hague Convention No. 33 on Protection of Children and Cooperation in Respect of Inter-country Adoption) |
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| CRC OP- 28 |
The Committee recommends that the State party ensure that all legal and practical measures necessary be undertaken in order to be able to effectively establish jurisdiction over offences in accordance with article 4 of the Optional Protocol. |
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| CRC OP- 30(a) |
The Committee recommends that the State party;
(a) Take all necessary measures, including prompt legal reform, to ensure that child victims of any of the crimes under the Optional Protocol are not criminalized; |
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| CRC OP- 30(b) |
The Committee recommends that the State party; (b) Presume young victims of sexual exploitation to be children, and not adults, if in doubt; |
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| CRC OP- 30(c) |
The Committee recommends that the State party;
(c) Allocate adequate financial and human resources to the competent
authorities in order to improve the legal representation for child victims; |
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| CRC OP- 30(d) |
The Committee recommends that the State party;
(d) Guarantee that all child victims of the offences described in the
Optional Protocol have access to adequate procedures to seek, without
discrimination, compensation for damages from those legally responsible, in accordance with article 9, paragraph 4 of the Optional Protocol; |
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| CRC OP- 30(e) |
The Committee recommends that the State party;
(e) Ensure that resources be earmarked in order to strengthen social reintegration and physical and psychosocial recovery measures, in accordance with article 9, paragraph 3 of the Optional Protocol, in
particular by providing multidisciplinary assistance for child victims; |
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| CRC OP- 30(f) |
The Committee recommends that the State party;
(f) Expedite the process of setting up a toll-free child helpline. |
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| CRC OP- 31(a) |
The Committee notes that child victims should be protected at all stages of the criminal justice process in accordance with article 8 of the Optional Protocol.
The Committee encourages the State party to be guided by the Guidelines on Justice in Matters involving Child Victims and Witnesses of Crime (Economic and Social Council resolution 2005/20) in this regard and should, specifically;
(a) Allow the views, needs and concerns of child victims to be presented and considered in proceedings where their personal interests are affected; |
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| CRC OP- 31(b) |
The Committee notes that child victims should be protected at all stages of the criminal justice process in accordance with article 8 of the Optional Protocol.
The Committee encourages the State party to be guided by the Guidelines on Justice in Matters involving Child Victims and Witnesses of Crime (Economic and Social Council resolution 2005/20) in this regard and should, specifically;
(b) Use child-sensitive procedures to protect children from hardship during the justice process, including by the use of special interview rooms designed for children, child-sensitive methods of questioning; and by reducing the number of interviews, statements and hearings |
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| CRC OP- 32 |
The Committee recommends that State party’s seek international support for cooperation projects relating to implementation of the provisions of the Optional Protocol in particular, in order to provide assistance for victims and training for professionals |
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| CRC OP- 35 |
. The Committee recommends that the State party take all appropriate
measures to ensure full implementation of the present recommendations, inter alia, by transmitting them to the members of the Cabinet of Ministers and the People’s Council (Majlis), and to all atolls, when applicable, for appropriate consideration and further action |
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| CRC OP- 36 |
The Committee recommends that the report and written replies submitted by the State party and related recommendations (concluding observations) adopted be made widely available, including through the internet (but not exclusively), to the public at large, civil society organizations, the media, youth groups, professional groups in order to generate debate and awareness of the Convention, its implementation and monitoring. Furthermore, the Committee recommends that the State party make the Optional Protocol widely known to children and their parents through, inter alia, school curricula and human rights
education |
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