COP28: UAE Blasted by HRW for Migrant Worker Abuse, Toxic Pollution & Mass Surveillance
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- Опубліковано 23 сер 2024
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The U.N. climate summit underway in Dubai marks the first time in nine years that representatives from Human Rights Watch have been allowed access to the United Arab Emirates. We speak with researcher Joey Shea about toxic pollution from UAE fossil fuels processing, and the state of political rights in the authoritarian country - especially for migrant workers who constitute 88% of the population but lack many labor protections under the kafala system. “There is no independent civil society in this country,” says Shea, adding that there is “sustained targeting of human rights defenders, activists, judges, lawyers, regular Emirati citizens” and anyone else who speaks out. Shea also warns that attendees of the COP28 conference are subject to mass surveillance from the moment they step foot in the country.
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Having a event like COP28 in Dubai is like having an AA meeting in a brewery.
Herb, we need you. Please keep contributing! 🤓😎🙏🏼😊🥰
@nawari. See you there next week. 👍
That and I cannot even begin to describe how useful it is to have a computer simulation damning us all to hell so the author of the simulation can be "a concerned scientist" when the technology was all there and completely ignored for analyzing a pandemic. Mind the furthermore - are we going to use Chinese coal deposits to have solar panels built and flown in to assemble virtue boats for Swedish girls to cross the Atlantic in full virtue towering above useless consumers?
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🕊Thanks a million for shedding light on this issue . Most people are not aware of it & just don’t believe us🕊🙏🏽🕊
This issue is a distraction. These psychopaths are about to create the largest insurance scam ever using carbon and methane, which will further destroy people's lives.
Do you think Amy and her DN staff will report on that?
There was a commercial PSA by Du Foundation where a migrant worker woman took her own life and her master was posting it. It said “if it were your pain, would you share it”. Is there anyone in UAE that respects migrant workers?
You could probably count them on one hand!
I don’t know 🤷🏻♂️ which way my thumb should go . Up or down ? 😵😫😩😲
@@curtrice6060up
@@basfinnischeck out that commercial. It is also in collections of scariest Asian PSAs
No freedom of speech no protest no elections no freedom of religion
Yeah, they don't share our western values.
Be careful Americans. This line of thinking 🤔 could happen to us ! 😞☹️🙁😕😟😔
Freedom From Religion.
Separation of church and state.
i am not merican i am born here in uae there is for sure no freedom of speech in religion @nawari.
As someone who grew up in Dubai, worked there and lived for 20 years, this video barely scratches the surface. Although i have fond memories of playing football and drinking chai, i was never okay with the obvious racist pay stuctures, lack of rights, and classist attitudes among the emirati population, who were more than 90% of my clientele. It is hypercapitalist, and Im glad i left
You met the wrong people but we are glad that people with your attitude left.
Thanks 🙏🏼 for contributing
@@ahmedalmehairi1572 oh I've met many kind Emirati people as well, shared balaleet from their plates, i even worked with the prime minister's office, but unfortunately many people also had your attitude towards expats who helped build the country. I've been told many times that I wouldn't a project because I'm not white, or because of my accent etc etc. I've even been asked by business owners when I was a consultant if a salary of 1000 aed a month would be enough for a new hire from nepal. I understand that you might be offended, but denying the obvious racism and systemic issues isn't really helping the long term perception of the UAE.
@@ahmedalmehairi1572
A country of prostitution, money laundering and filthy attitude…
And now a friend of the Zi-nist state of terror who’s hateful of Arabs.
The sheiks do anything for money and power at the expense of anything that comes their way. Boooo
@@ahmedalmehairi1572Too small of a country to meet wrong people. And I agree with OP, you are being oblivious and ignorant to the problems, just like the government.
Do human rights exist at all in UAE?
NO
Think it's like 1800 usa limited rights for land owners
You are right. We should stop helping you with anything.
@nawari. I can speak on anything I want dumb unt
@nawari. we know that UAE. Laundries money for organised crime. We know that the absolutely have no respect for the labour they bring from south east Asia. We know that the royal family are a bunch of thugs. What else you want me to tell you. Look what they did in Yemen, and in Libya.
Joey: I hope you didn't put that sim card in your phone.
Amy: 😅
"I hope you didn't put that sim card in your phone" 🤣 priceless
The workers are visibly adjusting their blue hard hats... Probably just got them. This is slavery... It's terrible.
The proportion of foreign workers is even higher than migrant workers, I’m willing to bet. It would be interesting to hear about the proportions of UAE citizens compared with foreign workers.
Uae citizens occupy the highest positions in most companies, in sparse numbers, while non Emirati expats carry out most of the heavy lifting and occupy most if not all operations related positions. As someone who's worked in the food and beverage industry there and worked with many high profile clientele and new businesses, I can say this
Yes, foreign worker is the correct term they will never be allowed to stay in Dubai.
Please interview Aljazeera senior correspondent Wael Al-Dahdouh..He lost all his family members...he is a known household name for Palestinians and Arab viewers and those who are concerned about Gaza / Palestine conflicts..
Worst abuse of human rights in Yehudi Arabia & the UAE, talking from personal observation & experience!Evilism beyond imagination 👿👿👿
The UAE? You're talking about a people who had no culture, no art, no history.
They were gold and people smugglers.
Who were still raiding each other on horseback in the 1970's.
Who have no real empathy with other Arabs.
Who's ultimate goal is to own a pair of gold leopards in their hallway.
Why would they care about some poor worker from the Asian subcontinent?
shame on the UAE.
you mean yourself . Like you want to see the Earth head inti oblivion @nawari.
Right-wingers/capitalists/individualists don't feel shame, initially.
It isn't until they've committed an atrocity, or had an atrocity committed against them, that SOME of them begin to feel shame, and/or see the shame of their own ways.
Good information
Maybe an education campaign in their home countries would be effective?
mass surveillance, its one of the safest places to live in the world. I guess if you are a criminal Dubai would be a dangerous place to be one.
This is incredibly important coverage
The day you report what happened with Israel I believe in your program !!
Keep up the good. Keep Exposing the UAE. 🇦🇪 off these Atrocious ideologies
What ideologies?😊
So basically it sounds like Dubai's Great Wall of China!!! they weren't forced work labor but there was consequences and death😮...
See that the problem take care of others instead of your own people this country is not built around charity we Americans want to take care of everybody but not our own people our country
Absolute power corrupts absolutely
From the river to the sea Palestine 🇵🇸 will be free
Seems like she would welcome public surveillance.
the Surveillance is necessary. and it dosen't break any laws / violate human rights as it operates in public areas and within the bounds of the law. look at london, the most surveilled city in the world.
lol, most of it in London is private cameras not linked into one grid and accessible by the govt, a lot of it wont even be recorded.
@@inbox0000 like i said, no laws broken / human rights violations. keeps people safe.
What the actual lack of keeping up- the updated law
ALLAH KAREEM mazloom phalastine k peoples ki madad karega IN'SHA'ALLAH ALLAH knows better time today whoever's enjoying tomorrow IN'SHA'ALLAH they all will cry AAMEEN IN'SHA'ALLAH
Wondering if we wil see ever again these ladies after today...
Ooooh scary
Amy, there are many issues on which I vehemently disagree with you, yet I enjoy watching your daily reports.
they think rich can survive global warming
Emarat And Qarar must Condamined Wat they doing in 2023 wit Foreigner Indian African.
Wit low low Salry and semtime conviscation document. Passe
Incrdble
She's gonna be banned again 😂
Friday no more is holiday for muslim
Not for Muslims, for Arab Emirates, as 80 %of population is migrants, they changed cos of worldwide bank chain graphics , Friday prayer will always be followed by Muslims,(God Worshippers)
Animals nature should not be abused either.
Hey Amy! Are you going to get to the insurance scam that THEY are talking about a COP?
Yeah right.
By people who fly in private planes
Ride in SUVs and use AC
Where are the vanguards of human rights in America, Canada, Western Europe and Australia when you need them? 6:12
Human rights watch mostly an institution for USA propaganda and empire, occasionally for human rights advocacy.
Where is HRW harsh criticism for the companies exploitation of the Congolese people in the DRC? Where there’s civil war, forced displacement, mass rape and child labor? Where’s the criticism on blood minerals? The inhumane work conditions millions of Congolese people are subjected to? Is it because the exploitation is mainly done Westerners? My statement is not in the defense of any oppressive country but where is the equality in coverage? Why isn’t the DRC being covered and exposed?
Are you okay? You understand a video can only cover a limited topic, right? This is about COP28. HRW and other videos have covered the situation in DRC.
Well Americans constantly bash America for how bad it is. But frankly a large share of the world looks more like what you're describing.
@nawari. They've covered DRC in the past.
Imagine defending terrorists
Like the current expanding war doesn't affect the environment...or burning EVs...
Thanks for covering something other than Israel and Hamas. I am so sick of hearing about I and H I could scream.
Is her eye okay?
Just discovered some of the people who watch your program are not in support of the dialogue you present.
Forced to labor 🙄 they can quit and go back home.
Do you understand how being poor works ???…
It's not always as easy as that when you signed a labor contract
@nawari. Not if your employer keeps deducting monies and you don't have enough $$ to just leave. I've seen stuff about the way people get trapped in these deplorable conditions. They're just not free to quit
We need Trump
DUMP TRUMP!!!!!
wow when she was describing the UAE I thought for a moment she was describing the USA😒
Dork😂hahahahahaaha