Thus far this year, 740 child-related cases have been submitted to the Ministry of Gender, Family and Social Services, said Minister Shidhatha Shareef.
Speaking on a live program on RaajjeTV, the Gender Minister stressed that 50 percent of the cases submitted to the ministry are related to children.
According to ministry statistics, 359 cases of child abuse were submitted to the ministry within the first three months of 2019.
While 100 familial cases were reported to the ministry, 21 cases were forwarded regarding children’s rights.
Shidhatha also revealed that said child-related cases include negligence, as well as physical and psychological abuse.
In addition, many cases were reported over negligence in spending for children’s basic needs. The ministry also received many reports of depriving children of their educational rights and denying them their identification and passports.
Further, Minister Shidhatha also said that the ministry had received 2,880 child-related reports during 2017 and 2,635 cases during 2018.
Stressing that the increase in child-related cases are a pressing issue, the minister highlighted that these cases are not showing a sign of decreasing. She stressed on the importance of creating more awareness among the public about the issue.
She also expressed her confidence that the results of the government’s efforts to strengthen the system will be seen very soon.
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so far no updates on indian work visa,,, its been more then 3 months now..
Am ADIL from maliku,came to Maldives to find a job because of this visa problem to Indian no companies is ready to hire indian. The only difference with and Maldivian is that am holding indian passport kindly do some to uplift this visa issue it very hard situation for me
When will be the Visa processing for Indian Employees back to normal ?
Indians should get work visa don't spoil their future plz, just because of these political leaders.
Why stoped visas
I am coming to Maldives but my visa issuing stop
Maldives visa issuing to stop why to opening
When Maldives government issues visas for Indians
very good decision by Our beloved president. Now we will learn things. we will learn how to wake up early, how to stay at office late etc. yeah now we will learn how to carry our own responsibilities.
Thanks President Yameen for giving his people chance to grow up.
Is it true?
On this matter i fully support pres Yameen. At last he is doing something good for the people of Maldives. We should stop this madness. our job market is draining. Not only indians, stop all useless visas.i like the ideas of trump.Thank you Yameen.
??? what a joke