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Human Rights Watch issued a report regarding the violation of the rights to freedom of expression in the United Arab Emirates. On 15 March 2017, Tayseer Najjar , a Jordanian journalist, was sentenced to a three-year prison term and a fine of 500,000 UAE Dirhams by Abu Dhabi Federal Appeals Court.
Human rights organizations have expressed concern about violation of human rights in Dubai. [2] Most notably, some of the 250,000 foreign laborers in the city allegedly live in conditions described by Human Rights Watch as "less than humane". [3] [4] [5] The mistreatment of foreign workers was a subject of the 2009 documentary, Slaves of Dubai. [6]
In 2008–2009, only 21% of Emirati women were part of the labor force. [22] The UAE has the highest percentage of total female labor participation in the GCC (including expatriate women). In 2018, women constituted 28% of the total Emirati workforce, with 489 thousand women employed in the UAE. [23] [24] In 2019, 521 thousand women were ...
As of the beginning of October 2009, ten Arab states ratified the Arab Charter on Human Rights. These are: Algeria, Bahrain, Jordan, Libya, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, United Arab Emirates, and Yemen. As of February 2012, another four States ratified the Arab Charter. These were: Iraq, Kuwait, Lebanon, and Sudan.
Mansoor, a 49-year-old electrical engineer and poet, was among five activists convicted of insulting the UAE's rulers in 2011. UAE court upholds 10-year jail sentence of rights activist Mansoor ...
More than 200 civil society groups have written to the United Arab Emirates (UAE), host of this year's COP28 U.N. climate summit, and all participating governments with a series of demands ...
The United Nations Human Rights Council ( UNHRC) [ a] is a United Nations body whose mission is to promote and protect human rights around the world. [ 3] The Council has 47 members elected for staggered three-year terms on a regional group basis. [ 4] The headquarters of the Council are at the United Nations Office at Geneva in Switzerland .
No. Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people in the United Arab Emirates face discrimination and legal challenges. Homosexuality is illegal in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and under the federal criminal provisions, consensual same-sex sexual activity is punishable by imprisonment; extra-marital sexual activity between persons of ...