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UAE complying with laws: UN rights chief
Abu Dhabi, April 25, 2010 (WAM)- The UAE is complying with the international laws and initiatives according to the preliminary reports received, Navi Pillay, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, who is on a visit to the GCC nations, said on Saturday.
She, at a press conference at Emirates Palace said, the reports show that the UAE is complying with the norms to handle sponsorship statute, workers’ status, rights of women and children and stateless Bidoons.
‘My visit to the UAE aims to listen and learn from the UAE experience in the field of human rights and address issues being raised in the UAE applying to rights of women, children, and workers along with other issues of high priority nowadays on the international arena,’ Navi said.
The top UN human rights official, who has expressed concern about a crackdown on dissent in Iran after last year’s disputed election, said on Saturday that she would pay a rare visit to the Islamic Republic next year.
Navi last month said she had talked with Iranian officials about the deteriorating human rights situation in Iran and suggested her office should visit the country.
Navi added, ‘The UN High Commission for Human Rights is closely following the serious infringements that are committed against Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza. It supports the UN related decisions applying to the occupied Jerusalem.’
She made it plain that the office of the UN High Commission for Human Rights in occupied Palestine produces every year as many as 17 reports on the infringements and offences that the Palestinians are exposed to in occupied territory. ‘Human rights in the occupied lands has posed a worry to me,’ she said.
She, at a press conference at Emirates Palace said, the reports show that the UAE is complying with the norms to handle sponsorship statute, workers’ status, rights of women and children and stateless Bidoons.
‘My visit to the UAE aims to listen and learn from the UAE experience in the field of human rights and address issues being raised in the UAE applying to rights of women, children, and workers along with other issues of high priority nowadays on the international arena,’ Navi said.
The top UN human rights official, who has expressed concern about a crackdown on dissent in Iran after last year’s disputed election, said on Saturday that she would pay a rare visit to the Islamic Republic next year.
Navi last month said she had talked with Iranian officials about the deteriorating human rights situation in Iran and suggested her office should visit the country.
Navi added, ‘The UN High Commission for Human Rights is closely following the serious infringements that are committed against Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza. It supports the UN related decisions applying to the occupied Jerusalem.’
She made it plain that the office of the UN High Commission for Human Rights in occupied Palestine produces every year as many as 17 reports on the infringements and offences that the Palestinians are exposed to in occupied territory. ‘Human rights in the occupied lands has posed a worry to me,’ she said.
