Over two dozen prisoners of conscience, including well-known human rights defender Ahmed Mansoor, continued to be detained in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The state continued to restrict freedom of expression, taking measures to silence citizens and residents who expressed critical opinions on...

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Over 200 civil society organizations from around the globe have signed a joint open letter calling on all governments attending the annual global conference on climate change, which is being held in Dubai this year, to address the UAE’s human rights record and destructive policies on climate change

Amnesty International and 18 other organizations have written a joint open letter to U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken calling on the U.S. government to urge its UAE ally to release human rights defender Ahmed Mansoor and other unjustly held prisoners before the 2023 global climate conference...

Authorities in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) should release all those unjustly imprisoned in the country before the start of COP28, which will be held at Expo City Dubai between 30 November and 12 December 2023. UAE authorities continue to detain dozens of people who completed their prison...

This year, the state host for the 28th Conference of Parties (COP28) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is the United Arab Emirates. To have a successful COP28 that takes humanity off the path of climate crisis, the conference requires open civic space for criticism and...

The climate crisis is a human rights crisis that is worsening day by day. Rapid and sustained action is needed if the increase in global average temperatures is to be kept within 1.5°C, a target likely to be breached by 2027 without course correction. At COP28, parties to the UNFCCC must take bold...

Authorities in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) continue their sustained assault on human rights and freedoms, including targeting human rights activists, enacting repressive laws, and using the criminal justice system as a tool to eliminate the human rights movement. These policies have led to the...

We, the undersigned organisations, urge the authorities of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) not to deport Sherif Osman to Egypt, where he would be at high risk of being subjected to torture and other human rights violations. An extradition would constitute a violation of the principle of...

In this submission, Amnesty International lays out human rights violations and concerns that it has documented in the United Arab Emirates since the conclusion of its last Universal Periodic Review, Amnesty International also raises concern about, in particular, the ongoing imprisonment and...

Amnesty International and the Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) urgently appeal to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to grant access to independent international experts such as the UN Special Rapporteurs, international NGOs and EU Delegation and EU missions in Abu Dhabi to visit Ahmed Mansoor in...

Over the past two months, 10 dissident Emirati nationals have completed prison sentences imposed on them in a mass trial in 2013, and yet the UAE is still arbitrarily keeping them in prison. All 10 men were imprisoned for the peaceful exercise of their rights to freedom of expression and...