UNFPA calls for review of judicial practices surrounding sexual behaviour in the Maldives
10 Dec 2013, 5:05 PM
Mariyath Mohamed
The UNFPA has this week released the State of the World Population Report, along with a report focusing on the local context, titled “Reproductive Health Knowledge and Behaviour of Young Unmarried Women in the Maldives”.
The report includes recommendations calling on the state to review existing practices related to the matter within the judicial process, law enforcement, education and health sectors.
Minister of Education Aishath Shiham inaugurated the event, highlighting the state’s plans to resume awareness programs for adolescents in schools in 2014.
“The UNFPA’s Life Skills Package is the program that was most systematically and effectively run in Maldivian schools to tackle the issue of adolescent pregnancies. Over a 1000 people have been trained to be able to conduct this program. I am announcing here today that with the start of the new administrative year in 2014, the UNFPA Life Skill Package will be reintroduced,” she stated.
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