Category Archives: United Arab Emirates
Reports Saudi Arabia
WTA and Women’s Rights in Saudi Arabia
On April 4 2024, the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) finalized an agreement with the Saudi [...]
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Bahrain Reports
Brutal Crackdown: Voices Silenced – Pro-Palestine Demonstrators, Including Innocent Children, Face Harrowing Suppression in Bahrain Since October 2023
On the 15th of December 2023, the Bahraini police arrested 57 people, including 25 children, [...]
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Reports Saudi Arabia
The nomination of Saudi Arabia for the presidency of the United Nations Women’s Rights Commission
At the end of March 2024, Saudi Arabia was appointed to chair the 69th session [...]
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Countries Saudi Arabia
The ban on withholding worker’s passports under the light of the 2020 executive regulations
For decades, migrant workers who moved to Saudi Arabia have faced hardships in seeing their [...]
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Reports Saudi Arabia Yemen
Silent Slaughter: The Untold Tragedy of Migrants at the Yemen-Saudi Border
Last August, Human Rights Watch revealed that between March 2022, and June 2023 the Saudi [...]
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MEPs sign letter expressing concerns over UAE candidate for INTERPOL head
19 November 2021 – A group of 45 MEPs signed a joint letter to High [...]
Nov
How is the UAE using Dubai Expo to whitewash human rights violations
Whitewashing is an infamous practice used by governments to exploit media attention and distract the [...]
Oct
Season 2: ECDHR in Conversation
22 October 2021 – ECDHR is excited to bring a second season of the “ECDHR [...]
Oct
ECDHR welcomes the European Parliament Resolution on the UAE
16 September – The European Parliament has voted overwhelmingly in a plenary session today to [...]
Sep
Failure of the United Arab Emirates to comply with anti-torture policies
To mark the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, ECDHR takes a look [...]
Jun
Secret prisons and strategic diplomacy: How the UAE masks its human rights abuses in Yemen
Disclaimer: This text was written prior to President Biden’s announcement to halt all offensive military [...]
Feb
Appointment of UAE Ministry of Interior Official to the Presidency of INTERPOL
19 international human rights organizations sent a letter to the Secretary-General of Interpol, during which [...]
Oct
The United Arab Emirates: Human Rights Violations in the Yemen Conflict
What started as a civil war in Yemen, the Arab world’s poorest country, quickly escalated [...]
Oct
Cybersecurity in the UAE
During the 21st century, and particularly during the 2010s, the issue of cybersecurity has become [...]
May
GCC Countries and Migrant Workers: Background Facts
The presence of migrant workers in the member states of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), [...]
May