31 December 2018 – Today, the United Arab Emirates’ (UAE) Federal Supreme Court upheld prominent human rights defender Ahmed Mansoor’s 10-year prison sentence. As a result of the rejection of Mansoor’s appeal, he will serve out his prison sentence in the Emirates’ Al-Wathba prison, where he has been held in […]
On Thursday 5 July, at the 38th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, during the Item 10 General Debate, ADHRB’s Saudi Advocacy Associate delivered an oral intervention highlighting the United Arab Emirates’ refusal to fulfill its 2nd cycle and 3rd cycle Universal Periodic Review recommendations. In his oral […]
On Monday 2 July 2018, at the 38th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council during the Item 8 General Debate on the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, ADHRB delivered an oral intervention calling attention to widespread torture in the United Arab Emirates. In the intervention, ADHRB remarked […]
On Friday 29 June, at the 38th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, ADHRB’s Legal Fellow Bridget Quitter delivered an oral intervention during the Item 6 General Debate on the Universal Periodic Review mechanism. In her intervention, Quitter called attention to the United Arab Emirates’ disregard for the […]
On the occasion of the 38th session of the Human Rights Council, ADHRB submitted a written statement to the Council regarding the third Universal Periodic Review cycle of the United Arab Emirates. For a PDF of this statement, please click here. ADHRB Assessment of the UAE 3rd Cycle UPR Third Cycle […]
