Right to Participate in Government and Take Part in Decision-Making 1. 77.0% of the respondents confirmed having participated in the parliamentary elections, with 83.3% of women and 65.4% of men responding positively. 2. 7.7% identified aggressive campaigning as an issue with the elections and 7.0% pointed to mismanagement or incomplete voter registration. 3. 9.6% of respondents found the lack of voter education problematic. 4. More than half (59.0%) of the respondents were dissatisfied over the allocations of resources between administrative atolls and islands. 5. People living in urban regions (67.5%) felt there is unequal distribution of resources between administrative atolls and those in the outer islands (53.8%). Sexual Harassment 1. The most common type of harassment women were subjected to consisted of a man making obscene or offensive sexual comments (14.2%). The second was a man rubbing himself up against the respondents or touching them on their breasts or buttocks on the street, at the night market or any other public place (12.8%). 2. In 2011 the most common type of harassment was cited as grabbing the victim’s hand in public (22.9%) and the least reported types of harassment were a man rubbing himself up against the respondents or touching the respondents on the breasts or buttocks or when getting on and off on ferries or other vessels (3.4%) 3. A woman rubbing herself against him or touching his private parts on the street or any other public place was reported as the most common type of harassment (8.0%) for men. The second most common type of harassment identified by men was having their hands grabbed by a woman at a public place (7.2%) 4. Majority of the respondents reported never having had any experiences of harassment they were queried about at their workplace 5. It is concerning that 1.2% of the respondents reported that someone at work forced them to have sex with them against their will or attempted to do so. 6. Respondents who reported having been subjected to some form of sexual harassment when asked what action they took, decided not to respond (82.2%) by responding with ‘did not know’ and ‘refused to answer’.   7. Among those who disclosed how they responded to the harassment, most (8.1%) did nothing about it. 8. People who admitted not taking any action following the harassment were then asked about the reasons why they did not pursue the issue. 34.2% of respondents did not believe it was a serious enough issue and in fact dismissed it as normal behaviour. The second highest reason for 13