UAE

A proposed United Arab Emirates (UAE) law on domestic workers holds promise for significant improvements in addressing worker abuse.

The leaders of the six Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states (Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, Oman, and Kuwait) will meet in May to discuss creating a closer federal unit among the states.

"The ministers stated opposition to any foreign intervention in the domestic affairs of the GCC countries, highlighting the need for respecting the principles of neighborliness,"

According to recent statistics by the ministry of labour, about only 5 per cent of female Emiratis are currently working at the private sector

The defendants were accused of human trafficking

This wave of detentions against peaceful dissent is a telling indicator of UAE’s deepening abuses of human rights. Their latest action, against these nine men, has once again shown the UAE government’s intentions to silence anyone who peacefully expresses political opinions.

Recruitment drive will take place in phases over the next six years.

They want to elect a legislative body that has jurisdiction over the law making process in their country. They do not want regime change. They want to protect the future of their country.

“we regret any initiative likely to create tension as has been the case for example during the recent visit of the Iranian president to the island of Abu Musa. Unilateral actions that aggravate the situation should be avoided”

Turn from mere discussions into viable initiatives to improve workers’ conditions in both sending and recipient countries

"Especially now with Arab Spring, people are buying because they feel other countries are not safe enough," said MF, an Egyptian mother of two young boys

"We've all asked the municipality and the Government to [make the quarries] stop and move away but they just don't listen to us," he said. "They ignore us and keep telling us to move ourselves, but we've been here all our lives. They're the ones who should leave - this is our land and we're not going anywhere

Shaikh Abdullah said Ahmadinejad’s visit represented a violation of the UAE’s sovereignty over its three Islands of Greater Tunb, Lesser Tunb and Abu Musa, adding that the visit could never change the historic and legal facts which prove that the three Islands belong to the UAE

What message does Ahmadinejad want to give to the Gulf states when he arranges high official meetings there? This falls right in the heart of the strategic Hormuz Strait where oil flows from the Gulf states and Iran to the whole world.

The foreign ministers of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) will hold a special meeting here on Tuesday to discuss the issue of three UAE islands occupied by Iran, an official source said.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Six activists in the United Arab Emirates previously stripped of their citizenship for criticizing the country’s rulers were detained on Monday and told they were illegally residing in the oil-rich union, one of their attorneys said.

The FNC refused to pass the annual official report on federal spending yesterday, in protest at a catalogue of irregularities in government spending.

The attackers allegedly used sticks and all the Kuwaiti team members had to be rushed to hospital for treatment

Experts highlight need for drastic steps to tackle limited supplies

In an interview with Al Qabas, a Kuwaiti daily, Lieutenant General Dahi Khalfan said that the group has a specific plan to take over Gulf regimes by 2016.

The report on Wednesday said the government’s aim was to ensure that most of the labourers in the country have at least a school-leaving certificate

Police arrested an activist after he criticised the United Arab Emirates' security services for interfering in the lives of citizens

Attempted abortion in UAE ends in tragedy

Security concerns cited, although those affected say they are being unjustly targeted for their political views.

The annual study from Transparency International, a Berlin-based monitoring organisation, awarded the UAE a score of 6.8 out of a possible 10 last year.

People should realise the risks of long-term damage that petty accusations may cause, not only to individuals but also to the fabric of society

On November 28, four Emiratis and one stateless resident of the United Arab Emirates were jailed for threatening state security by insulting the country's leaders. They had called for a boycott of September's Federal National Council elections and were charged in connection with anti-government demonstrations.

A state security court in the United Arab Emirates on Sunday sentenced five activists who have campaigned for political freedoms in the oil-rich Gulf federation to prison terms of up to three years

Ahmed Mansoor, a communications engineer, was accused of running a website that gave bin Ghaith and three other defendants a venue to express anti-government views

Dr Amal the first woman to be elected to the House in 2006 has returned for her second term

The president of the United Arab Emirates promised greater political rights to citizens at the opening session of the country's partly elected assembly Tuesday

The United Arab Emirates will increase the number of citizens eligible to vote for a national advisory council to 129,000 from a previously planned 80,000, the state news agency announced on Monday, the latest move to give them a bigger say in government.

An electorate of 129,274 citizens from seven emirates will vote in the country's second Federal National Council elections to choose 20 representatives of a 40-member house on September 24. The other 20 seats will be nominees of the the Rulers of the Emirates.