Maldives

Maldives: Ensure Respect for the Right to Have or Adopt a Religion of One’s Choice – Oral Statement

At the Human Rights Council 46th Session, during the adoption of Maldives’ report by the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Working Group, the WEA stressed the importance of respecting the right to Freedom of Religion or Belief and called on the government of Maldives to withdraw its reservation to Article 18 of the ICCPR, and to […]

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Maldives: Freedom of Religion – UPR36 Pre-session Briefing

The World Evangelical Alliance addressed religious freedom and the right to manifest one’s religion or beliefs violations in Maldives, in a pre-session briefing ahead of the 36th session of the Universal Periodic Review of the Maldives, at the Human Rights Council, November 2020.

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Maldives: Freedom of Religion or Belief, Freedom of Expression, and the Right of Peaceful Assembly

On 14 August 2020, the World Evangelical Alliance reported to the Human Rights Committee on the situation of freedom of religion or belief, freedom of expression and the right to peaceful assembly in the Maldives, ahead of the consideration of the List of Issues Prior Reporting for the Maldives during the Committee’s 130th session in

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