Category Archives: Human Rights

UAE coup trial offers window into wider Gulf fears

Posted on April 9, 2013 by admin

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — One is a former judge. Another is a past president of the lawyers’ association in the United Arab Emirates. Among the more than 90 suspects are also teachers, civil servants, business owners and even a … Continue reading →

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Emirates Crush Dissent at Home, Tarnishing Image Abroad

Posted on March 21, 2013 by admin

Emirates Crush Dissent at Home, Tarnishing Image Abroad March 21, 2013 [Written by Bret Nelson, Senior Research Assistant, Freedom in the World] The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has gone to great lengths to market itself to the world as a … Continue reading →

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UAE: EU Condemns Emirates Rights Climate

Posted on October 30, 2012 by admin

European Parliament Approves Resolution Despite Intense Lobbying by Abu Dhabi October 29, 2012 (Brussels)– The European Parliament on October 26, 2012, adopted a resolution on the deteriorating human rights situation in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). For the first time … Continue reading →

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United Arab Emirates and Britain: best of friends

Posted on October 30, 2012 by admin

Foreign Office ministers continue to give UAE a cover of respectability the authoritarian regime does not deserve Editorial The Guardian, Friday 19 October 2012 Human rights are so essential to Britain’s foreign policy objectives that they are part of our … Continue reading →

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Human Rights – Expanding horizons

Posted on July 13, 2012 by admin

Justice K. Sukumaran ‘The records of the case of the Delhi High Court would expose one of the worst violations of those human rights in an oil rich country. And that too, in spite of the judiciary of that very … Continue reading →

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