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

Source: Ministry of Law and Gender

Total number of children living at Children’s Home in Villingili, Male’

Females	Males	Total
54	64	118

Source: Ministry of Law and Gender

Safe home in the atolls: 6 children

4. 
   Who have been placed through kafalah.
   

	2012	2013	2014	2015
Girls	1	1	0	0
Boys	1	0	3	2

5.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 with disabilities who:

a) Are living with their families;

Disaggregated data not readily available

b) Are living in institutions;

Disaggregated data not readily available

c) Are attending mainstream primary schools;

Disaggregated data not readily available (Education does have disaggregated stats)

d) Are attending mainstream secondary schools;

Disaggregated data not readily available

e) Are attending special schools;

Disaggregated data not readily available

f) Are not attending school;

Disaggregated data not readily available

g) Are receiving treatment as a part of special physical or mental health rehabilitation programmes;

Disaggregated data not readily available

(f) Have benefited from government’s welfare system.

Disaggregated data not readily available

6. 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:

a) School enrolment and completion rates as percentages of each relevant age group in preschool education centres and in primary and secondary schools;

Disaggregated data not readily available

b) The number of students in each category of school (public schools, State- subsidized private schools, private schools);

Disaggregated data not readily available

c) The number of students in home based education;

Disaggregated data not readily available

d) Examination results for each category of school referred to in the previous subparagraph;

Disaggregated data not readily available

e) The number and percentage of dropouts and repetitions. Please specify the underlying reasons, if known;

Educational Attainment at the time of the offense between 2012 to 2014
2012				2013					2014
I	O	C	IF		I	O	C	IF	I	O	C	IF
20	41	7	63		33	9	7	56	26	102	17	19

I= In School

O= Out of School

C= Completed O’level

IF= information missing

f) The teacher-student ratio;

Disaggregated data not readily available

g) The number of qualified caretakers in institutions supporting children under state care.

Disaggregated data not readily available

7. 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 are:

a) Engaged in child labour (please provide information broken down by type of work, including hazardous work);

Type of Work	Number of children
Guesthouses	2
Souvenir Shop	1
Resorts	3
Retail shops	5
Total	11

b) In street situations;

Disaggregated data not readily available

c) Victims of human trafficking (please specify the purpose of the trafficking);

Disaggregated data not readily available

d) Victims of sale (please specify the purpose of the sale);

Disaggregated data not readily available

5. 
   Victims of prostitution;
   

Disaggregated data not readily available

f) Victims of child pornography.

Disaggregated data not readily available

5. 
   Please provide data (disaggregated by age, sex, disability, ethnic origin, rural/urban place of residence, geographical location and type of offence) for the past three years on the number of:
   

a) Children and adolescents alleged to have committed an offence that was reported to the police;

Details statistic of arrested minors with respect to different crimes in the year 2012, 2013 and 2014
Offence	Year
	2014		2013		2012
	Male	Female	Male	Female	Male	Female
Assault and battery	43	3	59	1	103	1
Counterfeit and Forgery	0	0	0	0	1	0
Drugs	142	8	117	10	100	4
False pretences	0	0	1	0	1	0
Robbery	2	2	9	1	18	0
Sexual office	15	1	27	4	23	13
Theft	43	0	53	3	116	4
Traffic accident	3	0	1	0	4	0
Vandalism	10	0	11	1	15	0
Others	24	6	36	1	57	4
Total	282	20	314	21	438	26

Maldives Police Service

Statistics of arrested minors for different crimes with respect to age 2014
Case	Age
	17		16		15		14		13
	Male	Female	Male	Female	Male	Female	Male	Female	Male	Female
Assault and battery	18	2	9	0	10	1	6	0	0	0
Drugs	62	2	41	4	28	1	6	1	5	0
Others	12	1	11	1	1	3	0	1	0	0
Robbery	2	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0
Sexual offence	9	1	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Theft	18	0	13	0	10	0	2	0	0	0
Traffic accident	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Vandalism	5	0	3	0	1	0	1	0	0	0
Total	129	6	83	7	50	5	15	2	5	0