When Navi Pillay addressed the Majlis in November 2011, the first UN human rights chief to visit the Maldives, she began with praise. Then she turned to flogging.
Her call for a moratorium and her criticism of the constitutional rule that every citizen must be Muslim set off a backlash that spilled onto the streets.
Last week Pillay was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. The government has not acknowledged it.
Fifteen years on, we went back through what she asked for. A domestic violence law passed within five months. But flogging is still in the law, the citizenship rule stands and the UN migrant workers convention remains the only core human rights treaty the Maldives has not ratified.
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