Human Rights in UAE

The White House's recent decision to allow the sale of advanced weapons systems to the United Arab Emirates highlights the deliberate shift in US policy towards the UAE after it signed "normalisation" accords with Israel. Why would the…
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Yemenis gathered in Socotra island on Saturday to denounced the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council and protest against normalisation with Israel. The pro-government rally saw locals raise Yemeni flags in the south of the island while…
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A British student who was chained and drugged after being accused of spying says the government is on the verge of giving the "green light" to torture. Matthew Hedges spent seven months in a detention centre in the United Arab Emirates…
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When Christiaan Durrant was four years old his father strapped him to his back and launched them both from an ocean cliff in a homemade hang glider fashioned from tarpaulin, electrical tubes and aluminium piping. Amazingly, the pair made…
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The US-brokered Israel-UAE normalisation deal triggered mixed reactions in the Middle East. While some Arab countries have cautiously welcomed the agreement, others view it as a betrayal of the Palestinian cause in favour of…
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Just when OPEC seemed to have finally mastered the long-running problem of members breaching their oil-output targets, a new offender is emerging. The United Arab Emirates -- traditionally a loyal partner of group leader Saudi Arabia --…
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Palestinian Foreign Affairs Minister, Riyad Al-Maliki, yesterday called on Arab countries to reject the UAE-Israel normalisation treaty. “We reject Emirati normalisation and we hope you will have the same stand,” Al-Maliki said during the…
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Israel‘s Sheba Medical Center and the United Arab Emirates’s APEX National Investment said on Thursday they signed a preliminary agreement to jointly promote healthcare technologies in the UAE and the Gulf region. The memorandum of…
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SAM Organization for Rights and Liberties documented huge violations of the human rights committed by the UAE militias in Yemen as part of Abu Dhabi's plots to spread chaos and sabotage in the country. The human rights organization said…
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The United Nations has condemned the UAE for committing war crimes and violating human rights in Yemen, stressing that there is "reasonable evidence" that the Saudi-Emirati coalition has committed human rights violations against Yemeni…
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