Law on Protection of the Rights of the Children (9/1991):‐ a) The Law on Protection Rights of the Children emphasizes on the responsibilities vested upon the government, parents and general public. Article 16 of this law stipulates on prevention of exploitation and of acts detrimental to the integrity of children. Moreover, Article 25 of this law stipulates on the prohibitions of exploitation of children and acts detrimental to the integrity of the children. However, according to this law Prevention and Prohibition of exploitation and acts detrimental to the integrity of the child are not vested upon as one of the duties of the state but as one of the duties of parents and general public only. b) What is more striking is that this law guarantees protection only to Maldivian children. c) Furthermore, there are no provisions on the implementation of rights stipulated within this law. For instance this law does not encompass any penalties for those who violate the rights stipulated within the law. Special Measures Against Perpetrators of Child Sexual Abuse in Maldives (12/2009):‐ e) Children who are in a marital relationship as per Islamic procedures are exempted according to article 14 of this law. This policy analysis highlights that even children in a marital relationship should not be in any way exempted from the rights guaranteed to children. f) The Article 57 of the law stipulates that child sexual offender’s registry be published. This article also stresses that comprehensive information on the child sexual offender’s registry shall be published on the website so that general public can access this information easily and use of national identification card number through short message service of mobile phones to identify a child sexual abuse offender. This article further state that objective of such a registry is to eliminate the possibility of re‐offence by the child sexual offenders and to Chapter: Article 24: Rights of the Child d) As per the requirement of this Act, there are 5 types of evidences that are required to present to the court to convict the offender. FCPD has raised concern about the difficulties of presenting the 5 types of evidences to court (i.e. an official document authenticating child being sexually abused, results of scientific analysis, testaments of eye witness, results of forensic analysis, and video recordings of testaments/evidence). This policy review also brought to light the need to formulate different standards for each of the available evidences to be presented to the courts in order to convict perpetrators of child sexual abuse. 68