Maldives
What's New
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18 July 2014
The Maldives government is taking steps to implement the new right to information law that went into effect July 12, according to an article in The Sun. The president’s spokesperson Ibrahim Muaz said information officers have been appointed at all government officers and that the president has nominated an Information Commissioner for parliament’s approval.? President […]
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17 January 2014
Maldives President Abdulla Yameen Abdul Gayoom on Jan. 11 signed into the Right to Information Act Transparency Maldives hailed the ratification of the act as “major step forward for good governance and transparency.” The parliament approved the bill (in Dhivehi) in December. (See previous FreedomInfo.org report.) The Maldives is the 99th country in the world […]
News Archive
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30 December 2013
The Parliament in the Maldives Dec. 29 nearly unanimously approved Access to Information legislation. If signed by the president, the Maldives would be the 97th country with a FOI regime. Passage “was an important step towards increasing transparency of the state institutions, ensuring greater accountability of public officials, and fighting corruption,” according to a statement […]
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25 October 2012
The Speaker of the Parliament in the Maldives said Oct. 22 that a right to information bill could pass out of a committee by the end of this year, according to several news reports. Speaker Abdulla Shahid make his comment at the conclusion of a one-day conference on access to information sponsored by Transparency Maldives. […]
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6 October 2005
The International Monetary Fund has taken steps that may reduce the number of deletions made in the publicly disclosed versions of its key reports about member countries, including the significant Article IV reports. The moves come after an internal report found that more than one-third of the published reports “incorporate substantive changes” as a result […]
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LEGAL DOCUMENTS
Constitution of the Republic of Maldives (English translation) (2008)
Right to Information Act (Dhivehi) (English) (2014)
ORGANIZATIONS
Transparency Maldives
Maldivian Democracy Network
RESOURCES
Analysis of Maldives FOI bill and recommendations for amendments - Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (2006)
