The United Arab Emirates and their implementation of torture

This report highlights how the law, charters and international rights groups set out to develop certain principles through which assessment of the level of commitment and respect that police bodies have in respecting human rights and not becoming a tool of oppression in the hands of the regime can be made. 

The 12 principles, shown in report, set out measures for governments to work with and ensure their implementation in order to prevent torture and ill-treatment of persons in custody of the government or agents of the state. Human rights observers claim that violation of rights are continuing on all levels in the UAE, most prominently on the political level pertaining to freedoms of opinion and speech. Human rights records in the UAE are in fact among the worst worldwide according to international rights bodies, encompassing crimes punishable by the international law, such as torture, human trafficking and forced labour. 

Moreover, the country imposes a ban on the entry of human rights activists into the country to monitor the situation, placing obstacles in their way. This manifests the country’s knowledge of the fact that the human rights situation is deteriorating.
This report sheds light on the level of the UAE’s implementation of the 12 points which it is committed to fulfil according to the international conventions and treaties that it signed. Herein, there will be a summary of each of the principles, with a trace to their roots in international law, and an evaluation of the UAE’s level of commitment to them.

- Published on March 2015 by ICFR

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