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The United Arab Emirates ratified the 2000 UN TIP Protocol in January 2009. [1] In 2017 the United Arab Emirates was a destination country for men and women that are mostly trafficked for the purposes of labor and prostitution. The U.S. State Department's Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons placed the country in "Tier 2" in 2017 ...
Website. dubaipolice.gov.ae. The Dubai Police Force (Arabic: شرطة دبي), commonly referred to as Dubai Police, is the police force of the Emirate of Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The Dubai Police Force has 30,000 employees [1][2] who are responsible for policing an area of 4,114 square kilometres and a population of over 3 million people. [3]
Human rights organizations have expressed concern about violation of human rights in Dubai. [2] Most notably, some of the 250,000 foreign laborers in the city allegedly live in conditions described by Human Rights Watch as "less than humane". [3] [4] [5] The mistreatment of foreign workers was a subject of the 2009 documentary, Slaves of Dubai. [6]
With respect to human trafficking, Saudi Arabia was designated, together with Italy, Japan, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Uruguay, Germany, Greece, Croatia, Israel, Iceland, Norway, and Angola, as a Tier 2 country by the United States Department of State in its 2021 Trafficking in Persons Report required by the Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act of 2000 on which this article ...
Trafficking from South Asia to the Middle East is a serious problem, with about 200,000 persons trafficked over 20 years, and 3,400 children over the last 10 years. The International Labor Organization estimates the minimum number of persons in forced labor in the Middle East and North Africa is around 230,000. [8]
Saher system is an automated traffic enforcement camera system covering major cities in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. [1][2] The system uses digital cameras network technology connected to the National Information Center of the Ministry of Interior. The technology used is a network of digital instantaneous speed measurement and multipurpose ...
Traffic violations reciprocity. Under traffic violations reciprocity agreements, non-resident drivers are treated like residents when they are stopped for a traffic offense that occurs in another jurisdiction. They also ensure that punishments such as penalty points on one's license and the ensuing increase in insurance premiums follow the ...
Speed limits in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi are generally higher than the other Emirates. The general speed limit in Abu Dhabi is 140 km/h whereas in the Northern Emirates and Dubai Speed Limit is 120km/h. Every Emirate with the exception of Abu Dhabi also has a speed buffer, allowing motorists to drive 20 km/h above the posted speed limit without ...