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Human rights in the Maldives
Human rights in the Maldives, an archipelagic nation of 523,787 people off the coast of the Indian subcontinent, is a contentious issue. In its 2024 Freedom in the World report, Freedom House declared the Maldives "Partly Free." The United States Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor claims in their 2012 report on human rights practices in the country that the most significant problems are corruption, lack of religious freedom, and abuse and unequal treatment of women.

Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor
The Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor Affairs (DRL) is a bureau within the United States Department of State. The bureau is under the purview of the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Assistance, Humanitarian Affairs and Religious Freedom.
Sweden national cricket team
The Sweden national cricket team represents Sweden in international cricket. It is organised by the Swedish Cricket Federation, an affiliate member of the International Cricket Council (ICC) since 1997 and an associate member since 2017.

Sweden made its international debut in 1993 at the European Nations Cup. It has since played regularly in the lower divisions of European Cricket Council tournaments and other series against European teams. Sweden first hosted an ICC-approved international cricket tournament in August 2016, when the 2016 ICC Europe Division Two was played in Stockholm.

In April 2018, the ICC granted all its members full Twenty20 International (T20I) status. Therefore, all Twenty20 matches played between Sweden and other ICC members after 1 January 2019 have the full T20I status.

European Cricket Council
The European Cricket Council (ECC) was an international body which oversaw cricket in European countries other than the Test-playing cricketing nation of England, the only European Full Member of the ICC for the duration of the ECC's existence until 2010. Since 2008, ICC Europe, the International Cricket Council region for Europe has succeeded the operations of ECC, akin to ICC East Asia-Pacific and ICC Americas.
Polk Street Concrete Cottage Historic District
Polk Street Concrete Cottage Historic District is a national historic district located in the First Subdivision of Gary, Indiana.  The district encompasses four contributing buildings in a residential section of Gary. The buildings were designed by D. F. Creighton and built by the United States Sheet & Tin Plate Co. They were built starting in 1910 and are examples of the Edison Concept Houses that were designed, patented, and promoted by inventor Thomas Edison. The houses reflect Bungalow / American Craftsman design elements.

It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.

D. F. Creighton
David F. Creighton (March 1858 – November 30, 1936) was an architect, mechanical engineer, and construction manager from Pennsylvania.  He designed worker housing in Gary, Indiana that incorporated concrete and terraces in what was termed terraced housing "based on the Philadelphia plan".  It was progressive and "homey" and imaginative in its details. About 77 of the houses that he designed in Gary survive.
Bernie Finn
Bernard Thomas Christopher Finn (born 14 April 1961) is an Australian politician who was a member of the Victorian Legislative Council representing the Western Metropolitan Region from the election of November 2006 until he lost in the November 2022 election. He was previously the member for the electoral district of Tullamarine in the Victorian Legislative Assembly from October 1992 until September 1999.

Electoral district of Tullamarine
Electoral district of Tullamarine was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Victoria. The district centred on the suburb of Tullamarine, about 17 km north-west of Melbourne.
Anthony Green (musician)
Anthony Green (born April 15, 1982) is an American singer from Doylestown, Pennsylvania. He is currently the lead singer of The Sound of Animals Fighting, and L.S. Dunes, while also maintaining a solo career. He was previously in the bands Saosin, Audience of One, Circa Survive, Jeer at Rome, High and Driving, and Zolof the Rock & Roll Destroyer.

Green is known for his distinctive, high vocal timbre. He has explored lyrical themes including addiction and relapse.

Descensus (album)
Descensus is the fifth studio album by the American rock band Circa Survive, released on November 24, 2014. Descensus is Circa Survive's first album released through Sumerian Records, aside from the Deluxe CD/DVD version of the band's previous album, Violent Waves which was released on August 28, 2012. As with Circa Survive's previous albums, Esao Andrews created the album artwork.
2013 Davis Cup
The 2013 Davis Cup (also known as the 2013 Davis Cup by BNP Paribas for sponsorship purposes) was the 102nd edition of the tournament between national teams in men's tennis. Czech Republic successfully held their place as Davis Cup champions, by defeating Serbia in the final, in Belgrade, by a 3–2 score. The draw took place on 19 September 2012 in London, United Kingdom. Although, the draws for Asia/Oceania Zone Group I and Europe/Africa Zone Group II were held following the remaining play-off ties on 19–21 October 2012.

Ecuador Davis Cup team
The Ecuador men's national tennis team represents Ecuador in Davis Cup tennis competition and are governed by the Ecuador Tennis Federation.

Ecuador currently compete in the Americas Zone of Group I.  Their best performance was in 1985, when they advanced to the quarterfinals in the World Group.
Smock (surname)
Smock is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Amanda Smock (born 1982), American track and field athlete

Ginger Smock (1920–1995), American musician and television personality

Jed Smock (1943–2022), American evangelist

John Conover Smock (1842–1926), American geologist

Matthias Smock, American settler in New Jersey, namesake of Matthias Smock House

Pamela Smock (born 1961), American sociologist and demographer

Raymond W. Smock (born 1941), American historian

Rose Smock (1867–1946), American actress

Robert Smock (1908–1986), American agricultural scientist

Trent Smock (born 1954), American basketball player

Raymond W. Smock
Raymond W. Smock (born February 8, 1941) is an American historian, who is the director emeritus of the Robert C. Byrd Center for Congressional History and Education at Shepherd University, and formerly the Historian of the United States House of Representatives (1983–1995).
Ann Kao
Kao Hung-an (Chinese: 高虹安; pinyin: Gāo Hóng'ān; born 25 January 1984), also known by her English name Ann, is a Taiwanese business executive, engineer, and politician. She worked for Foxconn until 2020, when she was elected to the Legislative Yuan as a member of the Taiwan People's Party (TPP). Partway through her legislative term, Kao was elected Mayor of Hsinchu during the 2022 local election cycle. On 26 July 2024, Kao was suspended from office and left the TPP due to corruption allegations.

Institute for Information Industry
The Institute for Information Industry (III; Chinese: 資訊工業策進會; pinyin: Zīxùn Gōngyè Cèjìnhuì, abbreviated Chinese: 資策會; pinyin: Zīcèhuì) was established in 1979 as a non-governmental organization (NGO) to support the communication sector in Taiwan under the supervision of the Ministry of Economic Affairs. It has international partnerships with InBIA, IEEE and Cisco Networking Academy.
Teemu Turunen
Teemu Oskari Turunen (born 19 January 1986) is a Finnish football agent and a former footballer who played as a midfielder. He made his debut in Veikkausliiga in 2004 for KooTeePee. Turunen is a member of Finland national under-21 football team and he has visited the training camps of several foreign professional teams including Udinese, Rangers F.C., and SC Heerenveen. Teemu's younger brother Tuomo is also a former footballer.

Since his retirement at the age of 25, Turunen studied law at the University of Helsinki, and has worked as an agent. He has represented his childhood friend Teemu Pukki.

Udinese Calcio
Udinese Calcio (Italian pronunciation: [udiˈneːze ˈkaltʃo, -eːse -]; "Udinese Football") is a professional football club based in Udine, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy. The team currently competes in the Serie A, the first tier of Italian football. It was founded on 30 November 1896 as a sports club, and on 5 July 1911 as a football club.

The traditional team home kit is black and white striped shirt, black shorts, and white socks. The club broadcasts on channel 110 (Udinese Channel) on digital terrestrial television in the north-east of Italy. It has many fans in Friuli and the surrounding areas.
Trimethylamine N-oxide reductase
Trimethylamine N-oxide reductase (TOR or TMAO reductase, EC 1.7.2.3) is a microbial enzyme that can reduce trimethylamine N-oxide (TMAO) into trimethylamine (TMA), as part of the electron transport chain. The enzyme has been purified from E. coli and the photosynthetic bacteria Roseobacter denitrificans.

Trimethylamine oxide is found at high concentrations in the tissues of fish, and the bacterial reduction of this compound to foul-smelling trimethylamine is a major process in the spoilage of fish.

Trimethylamine
Trimethylamine (TMA) is an organic compound with the formula N(CH3)3. It is a trimethylated derivative of ammonia. TMA is widely used in industry. At higher concentrations it has an ammonia-like odor, and can cause necrosis of mucous membranes on contact. At lower concentrations, it has a "fishy" odor, the odor associated with rotting fish.
Parliamentary Monitoring Services
Parliamentary Monitoring Services is a United Kingdom-based political research and publishing company. The company researches the activities of the United States Congress, European Parliament, and the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Consultants to the company have included British politicians Sir Peter Fry and William Howie, Baron Howie of Troon. The company published PMS Guide to Pressure Groups and PMS Guide to the 1997 General Election.

The company has been hired to undertake political research work by The Sunday Times and The Royal British Legion. In 2006, the company and its sister company Political Wizard were sold to Dods Parliamentary Communications, a subsidiary of  Dods (Group) PLC—formerly Huveaux PLC. Colin Doeg, author of Crisis Management in the Food and Drinks Industry, characterized the company as a "comprehensive service". The Independent described it as a "well-known political lobbying firm".

Merit Group
Merit Group plc is a British publishing holding company founded in 2001. Its largest shareholder is the Conservative politician and businessman Lord Ashcroft. It was formerly known as Huveaux plc (from 2001 to 2010) and then as Dods Group plc (2010–2021).

Its ordinary shares are listed on the Alternative Investment Market of the London Stock Exchange.
Fubuki Takane
Yuki Asada (born 4 December 1965), better known by her stage name Fubuki Takane (高嶺 ふぶき, Takane Fubuki), is a Japanese actress and a former member of the Takarazuka Revue, where she specialized in playing male characters (Otokoyaku). She joined the revue in 1983 and resigned in 1997.

Takarazuka Revue
The Takarazuka Revue (Japanese: 宝塚歌劇団, Hepburn: Takarazuka Kagekidan) is a Japanese all-female musical theatre troupe based in Takarazuka, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan. Women play all roles in lavish, Broadway-style productions of musicals and stories adapted from films, novels, shōjo manga, and Japanese folktales. The Takarazuka Revue Company is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Hankyu Railway company; all members of the troupe are employed by Takarazuka Revue.
LeeFest
Neverworld, formerly known as LeeFest, is a music festival that takes place each Summer in Kent, England. The festival began in founder Lee Denny's garden when his parents went away on holiday in 2006. Despite the festival's small scale in its first two years, by 2011 LeeFest grew into a two-day event with enough capacity for 2,000 people. The festival's capacity has since expanded to 5,000, moving to a new site in 2016. Around 200 volunteers help out during the festival.

The festival has won two awards and been nominated for several more. Awards include: 'Best Independent Festival' at AIM Independent Music Awards, 2012 and 'Best Grass Roots Festival' at the UK Festival Awards 2009.

Denny was awarded the Spirit of London Awards ‘Achievement in The Arts in December 2012. In the same year he was also placed in Time Out UK 2012: 100 Culture List in the UK's Time Out magazine, considering him "One of the inspiring 100 people in the UK who have made others lives better".

Fenech-Soler
Fenech-Soler were an English electropop band from King's Cliffe, Northamptonshire, England, that formed in 2006 and consists of two members: Ross Duffy and Ben Duffy. Founding members Daniel Fenech-Soler and Andrew Lindsay left the band in 2016. The name Fenech-Soler is taken from Daniel Soler's full surname, which is Maltese. The band's sound has been compared to Friendly Fires and Delphic for their "hybrid of summery indie and big dance-inflected melodies". Fenech-Soler are signed to So Recordings.
Obisesan
Obisesan is a surname mostly found in people of West African descent. Notable people with the surname include:

Akinpelu Obisesan (1889–1963), Nigerian diarist, businessman and politician

Gbolahan Obisesan, British Nigerian writer and director

Olufunmilayo H. Obisesan, Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Johns Hopkins University

Gbolahan Obisesan
Gbolahan Obisesan is a British Nigerian writer and director. He was the Artistic Director and Joint CEO at Brixton House theatre. He has served as a Genesis Fellow and Associate Director at the Young Vic.
Gifford's Hall, Wickhambrook
Gifford's Hall is a manor house in the civil parish of Wickhambrook, in the West Suffolk district, in the county of Suffolk, England. It is Grade I listed Its name derives from the same Gifford family who also owned Giffords Hall, Stoke-by-Nayland.

In the reign of Edward I, Peter Giffard held half a fee here and by 1321 William Giffard received the grant of a free warren.

The Wickhambrook house passed to the Clopton family in the fourteenth century and subsequently to the Highams in the seventeenth century. After a period as a farm in the Victorian era it was divided into tenements before being bought by Seymour Lucas in 1904 who restored and modernised the building.

Wickhambrook
Wickhambrook is a village and civil parish in the West Suffolk district of Suffolk in eastern England. It is about ten miles (16 km) south-west from Bury St Edmunds, halfway to Haverhill, off the A143 road.
Wickhambrook is the largest village by area in the county of Suffolk with a population of 1170 in 2005.

The village was recorded in Domesday Book as "Wicham".
John Laughton (missionary)
John George Laughton CMG (2 December 1891 – 3 July 1965) was a New Zealand Presbyterian missionary. He was born in the parish of Holm in Orkney, Scotland, on 2 December 1891.

In the 1948 King's Birthday Honours, Laughton was appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George, in recognition of his service as a member of the Māori Mission Department of the Presbyterian Church.

Holm, Orkney
Holm (pronounced /hæm/), also spelled Ham, is a parish on Mainland, Orkney.

An adjacent Sound, running between Mainland, and Burray, is named after Holm. It has since been blocked up by the Churchill Barriers. The parish flanks the north side of the Sound and extends to within 2.5 miles (4.0 km) of Kirkwall, and contains the village of St Mary's Holm, as well as the island of Lamb Holm. The Mainland section is 6 miles (9.7 km) by 2 miles (3.2 km).

The shores are mostly rocky, and the interior consists of light thin, loamy land.

Orkney F.C., the island group's main football club, played its home games at The Rockworks Community ground near St. Mary's Holm until the pitch was wrecked in 2023. The pitch has just been replaced ahead of the 2025 Island Games.
2002–03 Colorado State Rams men's basketball team
The 2002–03 Colorado State Rams men's basketball team represented Colorado State University during the 2002–03 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The team was coached by Dale Layer in his 1st season. They played their home games at the Moby Arena on Colorado State University's main campus in Fort Collins, Colorado and were a member of the Mountain West Conference. They finished with a record of 19–14 overall, 5–9 in Mountain West for a sixth-place finish. They went on to win the Mountain West tournament by defeating Wyoming, BYU, and UNLV. They received an automatic bid in the 2003 NCAA tournament as No. 14 seed in the West region. The Rams played tough, but were defeated by No. 3 seed Duke in the opening round.

2002–03 Duke Blue Devils men's basketball team
The 2002–03 Duke Blue Devils men's basketball team represented Duke University in the 2002–03 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The head coach was Mike Krzyzewski and the team finished the season with an overall record of 26–7.
SMS Dukla
SMS Dukla was one of four Ersatz Triglav-class destroyers built for the kaiserliche und königliche Kriegsmarine (Austro-Hungarian Navy) during the First World War. Completed in 1917, she participated in several unsuccessful raids on the Otranto Barrage before the end of the war the following year. She was transferred to France in 1920 in accordance with the peace treaties ending the war and renamed Matelot Leblanc. The French Navy kept her in service until 1936 and the ship was subsequently scrapped.

Otranto Barrage
The Otranto Barrage was an Allied naval blockade of the Strait of Otranto between Brindisi in Italy and Corfu on the Greek side of the Adriatic Sea in the First World War. The operation consisted of over 200 vessels at the height of the blockade. The blockade was intended to prevent the Austro-Hungarian Navy from escaping into the Mediterranean and threatening Allied operations there. The blockade was effective in preventing surface ships from escaping the Adriatic, but it had little or no effect on the submarines based at Cattaro.
Fukunaga
Fukunaga (福永) is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Cary Fukunaga (born 1977), American film director, writer and cinematographer

Gen Fukunaga (born 1962), American businessman

Myles Fukunaga (1909–1929), American kidnapper

Ryota Fukunaga (born 1998), Japanese para-athlete

Satomi Fukunaga (福永 恵規, born 1967), Japanese idol, singer and actress

Yasushi Fukunaga (福永 泰, born 1973), Japanese footballer

Gen Fukunaga
Gen Fukunaga (福永 元, Fukunaga Gen; born March 22, 1962) is an American engineer and entrepreneur. He established Funimation (now Crunchyroll, LLC), a company that distributes anime in Canada and the United States. He was its president and chairman until he stepped down in 2019. As of October 2011, Fukunaga was chairman of online video game publisher GameSamba.
Senior League World Series (Europe–Africa Region)
The Senior League World Series Europe-Africa Region is one of six International regions that currently sends teams to the World Series in Easley, South Carolina. The region's participation in the SLWS dates back to 1969.

Easley, South Carolina
Easley is a city in Pickens County (with parts extending into Anderson County) in the U.S. state of South Carolina. Most of the city lies in Pickens County, with a small portion of the city in Anderson County. As of the 2020 census, Easley had a population of 22,921.

In 2001, Easley hosted the Big League World Series for the first time, and continued to host the tournament annually until it was disbanded in 2016. In 2017, the Senior League World Series moved to Easley as the host for the annual tournament. The Upper South Carolina State Fair is located in Easley and is held annually in early September.
1st Legislative Council of Hong Kong
The First Legislative Council of Hong Kong was the first meeting of the legislative branch of the HKSAR government after the handover of Hong Kong, replacing the Provisional Legislative Council existing between 1997 and 1998. The membership of the LegCo is based on the 1998 election. It had the shortest term of the session was from 1 July 1998 to 30 June 2000, only two years unlike the latter legislative session of four years. The legislature was held during the first term of the Tung Chee-hwa's administration. The pro-democracy camp who did not participate in the Provisional Legislative Council held 20 seats with Democratic Party being the largest party. Notable newcomers to the Legislative Council included Cyd Ho, Bernard Chan, Lui Ming-wah, and Wong Yung-kan.

Regional Council (Hong Kong)
The Regional Council (RegCo; Chinese: 區域市政局; Jyutping: keoi1 wik6 si5 zing3 guk6) was a municipal council in Hong Kong responsible for municipal services in the New Territories (excluding New Kowloon). Its services were provided by the Regional Services Department, the executive arm of the Regional Council. Its headquarters were located near Sha Tin station.
44th National Film Awards
The 44th National Film Awards, presented by Directorate of Film Festivals, the organisation set up by Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, India to felicitate the best of Indian Cinema released in the year 1996. The awards were announced on 6 May 1997, and presented in July.

Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (India)
The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting is a ministerial level agency of the Government of India responsible for the formulation and administration of rules, regulations and laws in the areas of information, broadcasting, the press, and the cinema of India.

The Ministry is responsible for the administration of the Press Information Bureau and Prasar Bharati, the broadcasting arm of the Indian Government. The Central Board of Film Certification is the other important statutory body subordinate to this ministry, responsible for the regulation and certification of motion pictures broadcast in India.
Bréhon Tower
The Bréhon Tower (French pronunciation: [bʁeɔ̃]; or Fort Brehon) is accessible only by boat and sits on Bréhon Rock, an island in the Little Russell channel about 1.5 km northeast of St Peter Port, Guernsey, between the port and the islands of Herm and Jethou. Thomas Charles de Putron (1806–1869) built the oval tower of granite from Herm, completing the work in 1857.

Although not strictly a Martello tower, Bréhon represents the final evolution of the basic design of the Martello tower. In 1914 the War Office transferred ownership of Bréhon Tower to the States of Guernsey. During the German occupation of the Channel Islands, German forces placed coastal defence and anti-aircraft guns on the tower. Today, although the site is open to visitors, the tower is closed. The tower holds a light operated by the Guernsey Harbour Authority. The island is home to a breeding colony of common terns.

Jethou
Jethou (/ʒɛˈtuː/ zheh-TOO) is a small island that is part of the Bailiwick of Guernsey in the Channel Islands. It is privately leased from the Crown, and not open to the public. Resembling the top of a wooded knoll, it is immediately southwest of Herm and covers approximately 44 acres (18 ha).
Awalaching
Awalaching  is a village development committee in Surkhet District in Karnali Province of mid-western Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 1911 people living in 286 individual households.

Surkhet District
Surkhet District (Nepali: सुर्खेत जिल्ला, Listenⓘ) is a district in Karnali Province of mid-western and one of the seventy-seven districts of Nepal. Surkhet is one of the ten districts of Karnali located about 600 kilometres (373 mi) west of the national capital Kathmandu. The district's area is 2,489 square kilometres (961 sq mi). It had 288,527 population in 2001 and 350,804 in 2011 which male comprised 169,461 and female 181,381. Its district headquarters, Birendranagar, is the capital of Karnali Province. It serves as a business hub and document center for Karnali province. According to population, development, road links, landforms, climate, many peoples are migrating here.