Maldives

Maldives Department of Information

The official website of the Department of Information in the Republic of Maldives (part of the Ministry of Tourism, Arts and Culture), formally the Ministry of Legal Reform, Information and Arts. The Downloads section contains links to PDFs of law and regulations, mainly relating to information and media but including the country’s constitution. Most documents are in Dhiveti, but the constitution is in English.

Research guide on the legal system and research of Maldives

Online guide to the law and legal resources of the Maldives written by Mohamed Ibrahim who is an advocate at the Supreme Court of Maldives and Md. Ershadul Karim who is a non-practicing lawyer of the Bangladesh Supreme Court. The guide was published in 2013 on the Globalex website and made freely available by the Hauser Global Law School Program at the New York University School of Law.

World Law: Maldives

Section of WorldLII's World Law service covering the Republic of Maldives, the island archipelago in the Indian Ocean. Browse sections highlight links relating to: Government and Legislation resources, with links to subject areas including: Environment and Foreign Investment matters. A collection of stored searches will automatically search for materials relating to the Maldives on all of World Law, in Other Indexes and in Law Journals. A web spider search facility offers high focus searches of selected remote sites.

Constitution of the Maldives

This section of the President of the Republic of the Maldives website provides a functional translation into English of the 2008 Constitution made freely available online in PDF. The document covers the powers of the state, the fundamental rights and duties of citizens, the role of the President, the Cabinet of Ministers, the legislature -the People's Majlis and the People's Special Majlis and the administration of local regions (Atolls).

President's Office of the Republic of the Maldives

This is the official website of the President of the Maldives. It includes some background information on the role of the president in the government of the region, plus a biography of the current incumbent. Users can also access recent press releass, policy documents, films and transcripts of some important speeches. These cover all aspects of the social, economic, political and foreign policy of the Maldives. Links are provided to other government websites.

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