RESEARCH OBJECTIVES The overall objective of the research was to understand attitudes, awareness and perceptions of the public on a range of human rights issues in the Maldives. The more specific objectives include: 1. Examine the level of knowledge on human rights and awareness on HRCM among the public. 2. Examine the changes in the public’s attitudes and perceptions on human rights and the performance of HRCM over the years. 3. Compare the difference in the knowledge, awareness and perceptions between individuals across regions, between locals and migrants and other demographic categories. 4. Examine the knowledge, perception and prevalence of domestic violence. RESEARCH DESIGN The success of the initial 2005 survey, The “Rights” Side of Life, and its robust conclusions, resulted in the decision to use the same sampling design of 2005 survey, with slight adjustments in 2011 and 2019 SAMPLING This study adopted the same design and sampling methodology of the two previous surveys. The research involved a randomized sample of 1,160 (713 females and 384 males) individuals selected from households on 20 islands. A total of 13 islands and the urban centres of Malé and Addu, were included in the sample. While RSL2 surveyed 2 resorts, RSL3 enumerated 4 resorts with a sample of 25 from each, which reflects a wider representation of the resorts as their number has increased since RSL2. The exact resorts surveyed have been revised for convenience. Thilafusihi Island was selected to represent an industrial island. Multistage sampling was adopted, and the country was stratified into seven regions, with one atoll randomly selected from each. Two islands were then chosen from the atoll, one 2 being the administrative island and one other island was chosen at random. Sampling was carried out in two urban clusters (Malé and Addu) and in four resorts (randomly selected) and one industrial island (Thilafushi). Enumeration blocks were selected from these selected islands and all households in the block were enumerated until a pre-determined number of households was achieved. The respondents selected for the interview from the households were persons aged 16 or over. The sampling design of RSL2 has been largely adopted in the methodology and the sampling frame of RSL3. The same atolls were followed with slight modifications to the island selection. Subject to the revised numbers available from census data from 2014, population and household numbers were aligned to RSL2. With the updated population figure, the sample size was drawn using a sampling software with 95% confidence interval, with 5% error and 50% response distribution. To this figure, a 10% nonresponse was added. Based on this, a total of 1,160 individuals were included as the sample. The Primary Sampling Units (PSUs) were selected using house lists obtained from the island councils. The respondents were persons aged 16 and above on his or her last birthday, living in the selected PSU. Where the selected sample was not available on the island for any reason, a replacement was taken from the household itself, provided they were over 16 years of age. The PSUs for the islands in the sample were selected using a block list obtained from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS). As for the resorts, the sample was agreed in consultation with the Ministry of Tourism, and for Thilafushi Island, it was decided in consultation with Thilafushi Corporation Limited. ENUMERATOR’S TRAINING The survey was undertaken by Riyan Pvt Ltd, a Maldivian consultancy firm. The survey instrument initially developed by the international consultant for the 2005 report was used with minor modifications. The approval to conduct the survey was obtained from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) and the questionnaire was finalized and digitized using ‘latin’ in the local language. The topics in the enumerator training included familiarity with using the tablets, the