Government of the Republic of Maldives Responses to the List of Issues in relation to the Combined Fourth and Fifth Periodic Reports of the Maldives on the Convention on the Rights of the Child

Part II

1. 
   New bills or laws, and their respective regulations;
   

• 
  Juvenile Justice Bill
  
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  Child Protection Bill
  
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  Social Work Bill
  
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  Gender Equality Bill (GEL)
  
• 
  Social Protection Act
  
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  Interim foster care regulation
  
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  State custody regulation
  
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  Public Health Act
  
• 
  Health Services Act
  
• 
  Health Professionals Act
  
• 
  Penal Code (9/2014)
  

2. 
   New institutions (and their mandates) or institutional reforms;
   

• 
  Ministry of Law and Gender
  
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  Family Protection Authority
  
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  Safe Homes in Male’ and 4 atolls (to provide temporary protection and accommodation for the victims of child abuse, neglect and domestic violence)
  

3. 
   Recently introduced policies, programmes and action plans and their scope and financing;
   

• 
  Government Manifesto (2013-2018)
  

Pledges and policies directly in relation with children include:

- Policy of No Child left behind

- Minimize negative impacts and consequences of divorce on families.

- Ensure safe and protective environment for all.

- Better health facilities at community level.

• 
  National Reproductive Health Strategy 2014-2018
  

The Strategic Framework for Reproductive Health aims to provide guidance for advancing reproductive health programmes nation-wide in addressing key sexual and reproductive health issues and challenges.

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  Mental Health Policy 2015
  

To address the population’s needs on mental health, and to bring about affirmative changes to the mental health services provided, with relation to both preventive and curative care.

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  National HIV/AIDS strategic Plan
  
• 
  National TB Plan
  

4. 
   Recent ratifications of human rights instruments.
   

Part III

Whereby disaggregated data is currently available as per the Committees’ request, it has been provided in this section. Please note where it is marked unavailable, some of these areas are now in the process of disaggregated data collection.

Data, statistics and other information

1. Please provide information on the consolidated budget, disaggregated by budget item, covering the past three years, in terms of resources allocated for the benefit of children and adolescents. In addition, please indicate what percentage of the total national budget and the State party’s GDP each budget item represents. If possible, please provide budgetary information disaggregated by age, sex, disability, socioeconomic status, ethnic origin, rural/urban place of residence and geographical location.

Disaggregated data not readily available

2. Please provide data (disaggregated by age, sex, disability, socioeconomic status, ethnic origin, rural/urban place of residence and geographical location) for the past three years on the number of children and adolescents who have been victims of abuse and violence, while providing additional information on the type of violence (torture, sexual violence, corporal punishment, domestic violence, street violence, etc.) and the type of assistance afforded to child victims, the compensation received and the follow-up carried out, including the trials of perpetrators and the sentences handed down in the State party. Where possible, please also provide information on the profile of the offenders.

3. Please provide data (disaggregated by age, sex, disability, socioeconomic status, ethnic origin, rural/urban place of residence and geographical location) for the past three years on:

1. 
   Infant mortality;
   

INFANT MORTALITY RATE PER 1000 LIVE BIRTHS BY SEX, 2011 – 2014

Year	Republic			Atolls			Male’
	Total	Male	Female	total	Male	Female	Total	Male	Female
2011	9	10	8	6	8	5	10	10	11
2012	9	10	7	7	6	8	10	12	7
2013	6	8	5	7	8	6	5	7	4
2014	8	9	8	5	5	4	8	9	7

Source: Vital Statistics System, Ministry of Health

2. 
   Maternal mortality;
   

MATERNAL MORTALITY RATIO PER 100,000 LIVE BIRTHS, 2011 - 2014

Year	Number of deaths	MMR per 100,000 live births
2011	4	56
2012	1	13
2013	0	0
2014	3	41

Source: Vital Statistics System, Ministry of Health

3. 
   Under nutrition;
   

Year	Republic			Atolls			Male’
	Total	Male	Female	Total	Male	Female	Total	Male	Female
2011	11	12	10	10	12	8	11	11	12
2012	11	14	8	11	12	10	12	16	8
2013	9	11	8	14	16	11	6	7	5
2014	10	10	10	8	8	8	10	11	9

Source: Vital Statistics System, Ministry of Health

4. 
   Children and adolescents infected with or affected by HIV/AIDS (specifying cases of mother-to-child transmission);
   

None

5. 
   Mental illness;
   

Source: 2003 Mental Health Survey Report:

6. 
   Vaccination coverage;
   

Source: National Immunization Programmeme – Health Protection Agency / Maldives

7. 
   Child and adolescent pregnancies;
   

Information of adolescent birth outcomes (10-19 yrs.)/(reported cases only)
Indicator		Year
	2000	2011	2012	2013	2014
Live births (number)	518	277	242	204	201
Still Births (number)	7	2	1	0	2
Abortions (number)	1	9	9	7	3
Total Number	526	288	252	211	206

Source: Vital Statistics System, Ministry of Health

8. 
   Early and forced marriages;
   

Disaggregated data not readily available

9. 
   Child and adolescent suicides;
   

Disaggregated data not readily available

10. 
    The number of child and adolescent drug users in general as well as those enrolled in drug treatment centers and rehabilitation phase.
    

Disaggregated data not readily available

4. Please provide data (disaggregated by age, sex, disability, socioeconomic status, ethnic origin, rural/urban place of residence and geographical location) for the past three years on the number of children and adolescents:

1. 
   Who have been abandoned;
   

	YEAR
	2012		2013		2014		2015
Age	Female	Male	Female	Male	Female	Male	Female	Male
0-3 years	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
4-6 years	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
7-12 years	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
13-18 years	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Source: Ministry of Law and Gender

2. 
   Who have been separated from their parents;
   

	YEAR
	2012		2013		2014		2015
Age	Females	Males	Females	Males	Females	Males	Females	Males
0-3 years	1	3	6	7	3	3	5	11
4-6 years	3	2	1	3	2	1	5	6
7-12 years	0	1	1	1	2	2	10	17
13-18 years	3	0	15	0	2	0	4	4

Source: Ministry of Law and Gender

3. 
   Who are living in institutions;
   

Number of children living at Children’s Home in Villingili, Male’ (age- wise)

Age	No. of children
0-2 years	15
3-5 years	21
6-7 years	24
8-10 years	29
11-12 years	10
13-15 years	13
Above 16 years	6