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Martin Scorsese doesn't "need to" watch Joker, a movie he almost directed: "I saw the clips"
The blockbuster comic book drama took inspiration from the filmmaker's Taxi Driver and The King of Comedy
Martin Scorsese (photo via shclick/Flickr) and Joker
By this point we all know how little Martin Scorsese thinks of superhero movies. (His daughter certainly does.) It's worth noting, however, that the iconic filmmaker has mainly called out big budget blockbusters coming from the likes of Marvel and DC. So surely he would leave space to appreciate a character-driven drama like Joker? Turns out not so much.
In a new in depth interview with The New York Times about his critical smash The Irishman and his aversion to the Hollywood movie machine, Scorsese was asked about his favorite films of 2019. He admitted that he still needs to see a lot of the buzziest films, but Joker isn't on his to-watch list. "I saw clips of it," he said. "I know it. So it's like, why do I need to? I get it. It's fine."
To be fair, Scorsese isn't solely basing his disinterest on just a few snippets; he had intimate knowledge of the film before it was even made. The storied director actually was presented an offer to produce and/or direct Joker, which was heavily influenced by his own classic films The King of Comedy and Taxi Driver. Speaking with the BBC last year (via Variety), Scorsese said he passed on the project for two reasons: time and story.
(Read: "Do You Like Superhero Movies?" In Defense of Scorsese, Coppola, and Original Filmmaking)
"I thought about it a lot over the last four years and decided I did not have the time for it," said Scorsese. "It was personal reasons why I didn't get involved. But I know the script very well."
Talking about the turn Joaquin Phoenix's Arthur Fleck takes towards the end of the film, he added, "For me, ultimately, I don't know if I make the next step into this character developing into a comic book character. You follow? He develops into an abstraction. It doesn't mean it's bad art, it's just not for me."
Scorsese is currently in pre-production for Killers of the Flower Moon with Joker co-star Robert De Niro and Leonardo DiCaprio. He's also reportedly working on a documentary centered on the 1970 music scene in New York City.
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Duffergeek: Lens Shopping 2 - Decision Day!
Thought it over, talked with a bunch of people. I am going with the Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS and a 1.4x extender which gets me pretty close to the zoom that I had with the 75-300 IS but much sharper and better quality. I can also get a 2.0x extender at some point and get all the way to 400mm. Flexibility!
Order placed -- should be here by Friday.


In what your average tweed-wearing, binocular carrying racing fan would consider a quiet week, it still managed to throw up the usual 'winners and losers'.
It was a slow seven days for news, and little on the track had many excited in terms of Cheltenham or stars to take forwards.
One stable that will wish the week away quicker than most is the Paul Nicholls team.
While it was far from a make or break week, Ditcheat's runners certainly failed to fire, especially over the weekend.
Black Corton was the best of five across Warwick and Kempton, as he plugged on for a second behind Top Notch in the 32Red Listed Chase.
Secret Investor was also second best - this time behind Ok Corral at Warwick - but hardly looked like fences may bring out more in him. His jumping remains a work in progress and it wouldn't be a surprise to see him back over hurdles.
Ibis Du Rheu was beaten 38 lengths in the Classic Chase and Darling Maltaix a never threatening fifth in the Lanzarote.
Amour De Nuit - joint favourite for a decent race at Kempton - was beaten out of sight in last and probably needs a break after getting beat at 4-11 the run before.
Nicholls will be sleeping fine and the stable won't be judged on a quiet week in January but it's always good to tick over with a few weekend winners.
It keeps morale high in the yard and of course, keeps the owners smiling.
One group of owners yet to stop grinning are the Melbourne 10.
In tandem with the cheeky Jamie Osborne they took two horses to Meydan in Dubai.
Dream Today was picked up at the sales for the syndicate and duly delivered the goods for the team - winning at 16-1 and picking up a £83,000 pot in the process.
Their other runner ran into fourth on the same card at 20-1 and the owners that made it to Dubai have only just recovered from the celebrations.
The Melbourne 10 are a group of mates that travel the world with their horses, picking out meetings such as Royal Ascot and the unique Laytown to target.
While not cheap, if you've got the money, there's not much of a better way to spend it.
An ongoing issue came to light again at Leicester on Thursday.
Starts can be farcical in the world of Jumps racing and look no further than the 2.20 to prove the point.
I can't include a replay for various reasons, but I'd pop the race in your internet and have a watch of the start.
While the best horse may have won, Turning Gold got a ten length headstart with the only other horse who's jockey was switched on and never saw another rival for the rest of the race.
Whether the beaten jockeys had enough horse under them to reel in the runaway leader is debatable, but you would have liked to have seen a bit more effort coming into the home bend with the eventual winner only going further away.
Honestly cannot believe that. Punters money down the drain and no one will get any punishment. Feel like there's something wrong with start rules because this is a joke. Some experienced jocks there too!
For sure. It's hugely disappointing for those who've attended the race, let alone anyone talking from their pocket. Genuinely think somebody in a position of power needs to look at this and make a change - it's bad for the sport.
However, there was relief for punters during the week when it was announced race replays would return from Ireland and the likes of Chelmsford.
While it's the minimum you could hope for, with many paying Racing TV and membership of the Racing Post for the sole purpose of race replays, it's good to see the gravy train getting things sorted in relative haste.
Then again, problems like these shouldn't arise in the first place. Would it happen in football? Not a chance.
Let's hope when Chester and Ascot make the switch, the transition doesn't take a few weeks to get sorted.


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Charles Wager's first step in a meteoric career
I dipped recently into a magnificently titled 19th Century book, of indeterminate date, called:
"THRILLING NARRATIVES OF MUTINY, MURDER AND PIRACY,
a weird series of tales of shipwreck and disaster,
from the earliest part of the century to the present time,
with accounts of providential escapes and heart-rending fatalities"
The anonymous author might not have been gifted in thinking up short, snappy titles, but there's no doubt about what this volume published in New York contained. I was particularly taken by a short account of an exploit in the early years of a cabin boy who galvanised a ship's crew to withstand attack by a French privateer – a story that sounds too good to be true. A little further digging did indicate however that the case was a true one and that the boy in question was to ascend to dizzy heights in his later life. I'll quote extensively (in italics) from the account in the book as its period-style gives it a charm of its own.
Charles Wager in later life
Though the father and grandfather of Charles Wager (1666-1743) had seen service at sea under both Cromwell and Charles II, he lacked the patronage that would have allowed him easy entry to the Royal Navy. His mother had married a Quaker merchant in London after his father's death – this being a time when Quakers were a new and often suspect sect. Through his step-father however, Wager gained an apprenticeship with a Quaker from Barnstable, Massachusetts, a merchant ship's captain called John Hull who sailed regularly between Britain and the Americas. The key event of Wager's early career, as told below, must have happened before 1689, the first year in which he appears in the Royal Navy's records.
Britain was at war with France in the late 1680s – a condition that was to be almost the norm from this period until 1815, interspersed with only brief intervals of peace. Though war was being waged at sea, and with merchant shipping the much sought-for quarry of privateers, Captain John Hull, as a Quaker, refused to arm his ship. On one of his voyages from America and close to the British coast, his vessel was chased, and ultimately overhauled, by a French privateer. Hull "had used every endeavor to escape, but seeing from the superior sailing of the Frenchman, that his capture was inevitable, he quietly retired below: he was followed into the cabin by his cabin boy, a youth of activity and enterprise, named Charles Wager. He asked his commander (Hull) if nothing more could be done to save the ship—his commander replied that it was impossible, that everything had been done that was practicable, there was no escape for them, and they must submit to be captured."
Notwithstanding his age – and obviously unconvinced by Quaker pacifism, however much he might be beholden to Hull – – Wager went on deck, summoned the crew and told them what their captain intended. Then, "then, with an elevation of mind, dictated by a soul formed for enterprise and noble daring, he observed, "if you will place yourselves under my command, and stand by me, I have conceived a plan by which the ship may be rescued, and we in turn become the conquerors." The sailors no doubt feeling the ardor, and inspired by the courage of their youthful and gallant leader, agreed to place themselves under his command. His plan was communicated to them, and they awaited with firmness, the moment to carry their enterprise into effect."
When French vessel grappled the surrendered ship shortly after and a boarding party began to cross to claim their prize, these "exhilarated conquerors, elated beyond measure, with the acquisition of so fine a prize, poured into the vessel cheering and huzzaing; and not foreseeing any danger, they left but few men on board their ship. Now was the moment for Charles Wager, who, giving his men the signal, sprang at their head on board the opposing vessel, while some seized the arms which had been left in profusion on her deck, and with which they soon overpowered the few men left on board; the others, by a simultaneous movement, relieved her from the grapplings which united the two vessels."
Wager had managed the near-impossible, essentially hijacking the attacker. "Our hero now having the command of the French vessel, seized the helm, and placing her out of boarding distance, hailed, with the voice of a conqueror, the discomfited crowd of Frenchmen who were left on board of the peaceful bark he had just quitted, and summoned them to follow close in his wake, or he would blow them out of water, (a threat they well knew he was very capable of executing, as their guns were loaded during the chase.)"
It is probably an understatement that the French "sorrowfully acquiesced with his commands, while gallant Charles steered into port, followed by his prize. The exploit excited universal applause—the former master of the merchant vessel was examined by the Admiralty, when he stated the whole of the enterprise as it occurred, and declared that Charles Wager had planned and effected the gallant exploit, and that to him alone belonged the honor and credit of the achievement."
The battle off Cartagena, 28 May 1708 known as "Wager's Action", in which
he became a rich man through prize money. Painting, via Wikipedia, by Samuel Scott (1702-1772)
This exploit gained for Wager what had previously been beyond his reach – a footing in the Royal Navy. He was appointed a midshipman, and by 1689 was listed as a lieutenant on the frigate HMS Foresight. His career thereafter was to be an active one in both naval and diplomatic service, one that, culminated in appointment as First Lord of the Admiralty – the head of the Royal Navy – from 1733 to 1742. Prize money was to make him immensely rich but "it is said that he always held in veneration and esteem, that respectable and conscientious Friend (i.e. Quaker), whose cabin boy he had been, and transmitted yearly to his OLD MASTER, as he termed him, a handsome present of Madeira, to cheer his declining days."
The cabin boy had come a very long way.
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Gluten-Free Girl Scouts
BY Roma Panganiban
Gluten-free eaters, rejoice! The Girl Scouts finally have a cookie that will cater to celiacs' needs.
Oreo is stepping up its game as well, with two new limited edition flavors set for a February release.
The New York Times Magazine went out on a limb with a creative cover featuring Hillary Clinton – and of course, it's already been meme-ified.
Storm chasing might be worth it for such incredible photos.
Who hasn't wanted to live in a house with a secret passageway or two? Some creative homeowners are doing just that.
Lewis Carroll not only wrote out the original version of Alice in Wonderland—a gift to Alice Liddell, its young namesake and inspiration—by hand, but illustrated it in ink and in great detail as well. The entire manuscript is viewable online, courtesy of the British Library.
Well, that's one way to announce the impending birth of your child.


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The Secretary General Message on International Day of the Girl
New York, 11 October 2020
This year, we mark the International Day of the Girl against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic, and resurgent movements for social justice.
As we strengthen the response to the pandemic and plan for a strong recovery, we have an
The UN Secretary-General Mr. António Guterres
opportunity to create a better, fairer, more equal world for girls everywhere. The best way to achieve this is by following the leadership of girls themselves.
This year's theme, "My Voice: Our Equal Future" calls on us to amplify the voices of adolescent girls, and put their needs at the forefront of laws, policies and practices in every country and community around the world.
The gaps between girls and boys remain unacceptably wide. Adolescent girls are locked out of opportunities in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM), not for lack of talent or ambition — but because they are girls. Globally, the percentage of women among graduates in these subjects is below 15 percent in over two-thirds of countries.
Generation Equality is our global campaign and call to commit to working with and for girls, everywhere.
We must support girls by giving them access to the tools they need to shape their own destinies. That includes the technological skills, connectivity and safety they need to thrive in a digital world.
We can all draw inspiration from the adolescent girls who are taking the lead and shaping better lives for themselves — and for others.
Teenage girls are the new leaders of our time, creating global movements for change. They're ready for the challenge.
On this International Day of the Girl, let's stand together with them and for them.
Let's nourish their talents, amplify their voices and work together for a better, more equal future for us all.
This entry was posted in COVID19, Latest news, Multi subject, Secretary Generals Messages and tagged COVID19, engineering, Equality, Girls, laws, Mathematics, policies, science, social justice, STEM, technology on October 10, 2020 by Charles Nonde.
The United Nations Secretary General- Message on The International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, 21 March
The International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination is an occasion for all of us to renew our promise to end racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance,
anti-Semitism and anti-Muslim hatred. The recent massacre at two mosques in New Zealand is the latest tragedy rooted in such poison.
No country or community is immune from racial and religious hatred and the terrorism of bigots. I am deeply alarmed by the current rise of xenophobia, racism and intolerance. Hate speech is entering the mainstream, spreading like wildfire through social media and radio. It is spreading in liberal democracies and authoritarian States alike.
These dark forces menace democratic values, social stability and peace. When people are attacked, physically, verbally or on social media because of their race, religion or ethnicity, all of society is diminished. It is crucial for us all to join hands, stand up and defend the principles of equality and human dignity.
We must all work harder to repair the fissures and polarization that are so prevalent in our societies today. We must nurture mutual understanding and invest in making diversity a success. And we must counter and reject political figures who exploit differences for electoral gain.
We must also ask why so many people feel excluded and tempted by messages of intolerance against others. We need to engage everyone in dismantling the harmful and specious notion of racial superiority. Even today, decades after the pseudo-science of the Nazis contributed to the Holocaust, the world is seeing the persistence – and even a surge – of neo-Nazi thinking and white supremacy. We must bury such lies once and for all.
Today let us all resolve to fight racism and discrimination wherever it occurs. Let us reflect on how we can promote non-discrimination in every country and at every level. We are all connected by our humanity. We are all equal. We should all be looking out for each other's welfare.
Message in other UN official languages: Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian, Spanish.
This entry was posted in Latest news, Secretary Generals Messages and tagged discrimination, Equality, Human Dignity, Intolerance, Islamophobia, Racism, UN, xenophobia on March 22, 2019 by Charles Nonde.
The UN Secretary Generals Message on International Womens Day
New York, 8 March 2019
Gender equality and women's rights are fundamental to global progress on peace and security,
human rights and sustainable development. We can only re-establish trust in institutions, rebuild global solidarity and reap the benefits of diverse perspectives by challenging historic injustices and promoting the rights and dignity of all.
In recent decades, we have seen remarkable progress on women's rights and leadership in some areas. But these gains are far from complete or consistent – and they have already sparked a troubling backlash from an entrenched patriarchy.
Gender equality is fundamentally a question of power. We live in a male-dominated world with a male-dominated culture. Only when we see women's rights as our common objective, a route to change that benefits everyone, will we begin to shift the balance.
Increasing the number of women decision-makers is fundamental. At the United Nations, I have made this a personal and urgent priority. We now have gender parity among those who lead our teams around the world, and the highest-ever numbers of women in senior management. We will continue to build on this progress.
But women still face major obstacles in accessing and exercising power. As the World Bank found, just six economies give women and men equal legal rights in areas that affect their work. And if current trends continue, it will take 170 years to close the economic gender gap.
Nationalist, populist and austerity agendas add to gender inequality with policies that curtail women's rights and cut social services. In some countries, while homicide rates overall are decreasing, femicide rates are rising. In others we see a rollback of legal protection against domestic violence or female genital mutilation. We know women's participation makes peace agreements more durable, but even governments that are vocal advocates fail to back their words with action. The use of sexual violence as a tactic in conflict continues to traumatize individuals and entire societies.
Against this backdrop, we need to redouble our efforts to protect and promote women's rights, dignity and leadership. We must not give ground that has been won over decades and we must push for wholesale, rapid and radical change.
This year's theme for International Women's Day, "Think Equal, Build Smart, Innovate for Change", addresses infrastructure, systems and frameworks that have been constructed largely in line with a male-defined culture. We need to find innovative ways of reimagining and rebuilding our world so that it works for everyone. Women decision-makers in areas like urban design, transport and public services can increase women's access, prevent harassment and violence, and improve everyone's quality of life.
This applies equally to the digital future that is already upon us. Innovation and technology reflect the people who make them. The underrepresentation and lack of retention of women in the fields of science, technology, engineering, mathematics and design should be a cause of concern to all.
Last month, in Ethiopia, I spent time with African Girls Can Code, an initiative that is helping to bridge the digital gender divide and train the tech leaders of tomorrow. I was delighted to see the energy and enthusiasm these girls brought to their projects. Programmes like this not only develop skills; they challenge stereotypes that limit girls' ambitions and dreams.
On this International Women's Day, let's make sure women and girls can shape the policies, services and infrastructure that impact all our lives. And let's support women and girls who are breaking down barriers to create a better world for everyone.
L'égalité des genres et les droits des femmes sont fondamentaux pour progresser à l'échelle planétaire sur la voie de la paix, de la sécurité, des droits de l'homme et du développement durable. Nous ne pouvons rétablir la confiance dans les institutions, reconstruire la solidarité au niveau mondial et tirer parti des diverses perspectives qu'en luttant contre les injustices historiques et en promouvant les droits et la dignité de toutes et de tous.
Ces dernières décennies, nous avons vu les femmes réaliser de remarquables avancées dans certains domaines, en matière de droits et de leadership. Mais ces progrès sont loin d'être complets ou systématiques – et ils ont suscité une réaction hostile et inquiétante de la part d'un patriarcat solidement enraciné.
L'égalité des genres est essentiellement une question de pouvoir. Nous vivons dans un monde dominé par les hommes où la culture l'est également. Ce n'est que lorsque nous nous fixons comme objectif commun les droits des femmes, un nouveau cap à prendre au profit de toutes et de tous, que nous commencerons à faire évoluer la situation.
L'augmentation du nombre des femmes à des postes de décision est fondamental. À l'ONU, j'en ai fait une priorité personnelle et urgente. Nous avons assuré la parité entre les sexes parmi celles et ceux qui dirigent nos équipes dans le monde, et le nombre de femmes occupant des postes de responsabilité est le plus élevé jamais atteint dans l'Organisation. Nous continuerons à faire fond sur cette avancée.
Toutefois, les femmes se heurtent encore à des obstacles importants pour accéder au pouvoir et pour l'exercer. Comme la Banque mondiale l'a constaté, seuls six pays accordent aux femmes et aux hommes la même égalité de droits dans des domaines touchant à leur vie professionnelle. Et si les tendances actuelles se maintiennent, il faudra 170 ans pour combler l'écart économique entre les sexes.
Les programmes nationalistes, populistes et d'austérité ajoutent à l'inégalité de genre par des politiques qui restreignent les droits des femmes et suppriment l'accès aux services sociaux. Dans certains pays, alors que le taux d'homicide est d'une manière générale en baisse, celui de féminicide est en hausse. Dans d'autres, nous constatons un recul de la protection juridique contre la violence domestique et la mutilation génitale féminine. Nous savons que la participation des femmes aux accords de paix rend ces derniers plus durables, ce qui n'empêche pourtant pas les gouvernements qui plaident en leur faveur de ne pas réussir à traduire leurs paroles en actes. Le recours à la violence sexuelle en tant que tactique dans les conflits continue d'être à la source de traumatismes à l'échelle des individus et de sociétés entières.
Dans ce contexte, il nous faut redoubler d'efforts pour protéger et promouvoir les droits, la dignité et le leadership des femmes. Nous ne devons pas céder un pouce du terrain conquis depuis des décennies et nous devons appeler à un changement rapide, radical et en profondeur.
Cette année, le thème de la Journée internationale des femmes : « Penser équitablement, bâtir intelligemment, innover pour le changement », aborde la question des infrastructures, des systèmes et des cadres qui ont été en grande partie établis dans l'esprit d'une culture définie par les hommes. Nous devons trouver des manières innovantes de réinventer et de reconstruire notre monde pour qu'il profite à toutes et à tous. Les femmes occupant des postes de décision dans des secteurs comme l'urbanisme, les transports et les services publics peuvent accroître l'accès d'autres femmes, prévenir le harcèlement à leur égard et les violences dont elles font l'objet, et améliorer la qualité de vie de chacune et de chacun.
Cela vaut également pour l'avenir numérique qui nous entoure déjà. L'innovation et la technologie sont le reflet de celles et ceux qui sont à leur origine. La sous‑représentation des femmes et le fait qu'elles ne demeurent pas en poste dans les secteurs de la science, de la technologie, de l'ingénierie, des mathématiques et de la conception devraient être une source de préoccupation pour nous toutes et tous.
Le mois dernier, en Éthiopie, j'ai passé du temps avec l'équipe d'African Girls Can Code, une initiative qui contribue à combler le fossé numérique entre les femmes et les hommes et à former les responsables des entreprises de haute technologie de demain. J'ai eu le plaisir de voir l'énergie et l'enthousiasme avec lesquels ces filles menaient leurs projets. Les programmes de cette nature ne développent pas seulement les compétences : ils combattent les stéréotypes qui limitent les ambitions et les rêves des filles.
En cette Journée internationale des femmes, veillons à ce que les femmes et les filles puissent concevoir des politiques, des services et des infrastructures ayant un effet sur notre vie. Et apportons notre soutien aux femmes et aux filles qui suppriment les obstacles à la création d'un monde meilleur pour toutes et pour tous.
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This entry was posted in Latest news, Secretary Generals Messages and tagged Build Smart, Change, Equality, Girls Rights, innovation, Sexual violence, UN Women, Women on March 8, 2019 by Charles Nonde.
Taking action where we can to stop Cybercrime
By Yury Fedotov
The author is the Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. The op-ed is on the need for cooperation to tackle cybercrime.
Cyber. It is the inescapable prefix defining our world today. From the privacy of individuals to relations between states, cyber dominates discussions and headlines – so much so that we risk being paralyzed by the magnitude of the problems we face.
Yury Fedotov, Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.
But we would do well to keep in mind that despite the many outstanding questions on the future of cybersecurity and governance, international cooperation is essential to tackle the ever-growing threats of cybercrime.
Online exploitation and abuse of children. Darknet markets for illicit drugs and firearms. Ransomware attacks. Human traffickers using social media to lure victims. Cybercrime's unprecedented reach – across all borders, into our homes and schools, businesses, hospitals and other vital service providers – only amplifies the threats.
A recent estimate put the global cost of cybercrime at 600 billion US dollars. The damage done to sustainable development and safety, to gender equality and protection –women and girls are disproportionately harmed by online sexual abuse – is immense.
Keeping people safer online is an enormous task and no one entity or government has the perfect solution. But there is much we can do, and need to do more of, to strengthen prevention and improve responses to cybercrime, namely:
Build up capabilities, most of all law enforcement, to shore up gaps, particularly in developing countries; and
Strengthen international cooperation and dialogue – between governments, the United Nations, other international as well as regional organizations, INTERPOL and the many other partners, including business and civil society, with a stake in stopping cybercrime.
Cyber-dependent crime, including malware proliferation, ransomware and hacking; cyber-enabled crime, for example email phishing to steal financial data; and online child sexual exploitation and abuse all have something in common besides the "cyber" aspect: they are crimes.
Police, prosecutors and judges need to understand these crimes, they need the tools to investigate and go after the criminals and protect the victims, and they need to be able to prosecute and adjudicate cases.
At the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), we are working in more than 50 countries to provide the necessary training, to sharpen investigative skills, trace cryptocurrencies as part of financial investigations, and use software to detect online abuse materials and go after predators.
As a direct result of our capacity-building efforts in one country, a high-risk paedophile with over 80 victims –– was arrested, tried and convicted. We delivered the training in partnership with the International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children and Facebook. This is just one example of how capacity building and partnerships with NGOs and the private sector can ensure that criminals are behind bars and vulnerable children protected.
Working with the Internet Watch Foundation, we have launched child sexual abuse reporting portals – most recently in Belize – so that citizens can take the initiative to report abuse images and protect girls and boys from online exploitation.
With partners including Thorn and Pantallas Amigas we are strengthening online protection and educating parents, caregivers and children about cyber risks through outreach in schools and local communities. Prevention is the key.
UNODC training – focused primarily on Central America, the Middle East and North Africa, Eastern Africa and South East Asia – is also helping to identify digital evidence in online drug trafficking, confront the use of the darknet for criminal and terrorist purposes, and improve data collection to better address threats.
A critical foundation for all our efforts is international cooperation. Our work – which is entirely funded by donor governments – has shown that despite political differences, countries can and do come together to counter the threats of cybercrime.
We are also strengthening international cooperation through the Intergovernmental Expert Group, which meets at UNODC headquarters in Vienna.
Established by General Assembly resolution, the Expert Group brings together diplomats, policy makers and experts from around the globe to discuss the most pressing challenges in cybercrime today. These meetings demonstrate the desire and willingness of governments to pursue pragmatic cooperation, which can only help to improve prevention and foster trust.
As a next step, we need to reinforce these efforts, including by providing more resources to support developing countries, which often have the most new Internet users and the weakest defences against cybercrime.
Tech companies are an indispensable ally in the fight against cybercrime. We need to increase public-private sector engagement to address common concerns like improving education and clamping down on online abuse material.
Countering cybercrime can save lives, grow prosperity and build peace. By strengthening law enforcement capacities and partnering with businesses so they can be part of the solution, we can go a long way in ensuring that the Internet can be a force for good.
This entry was posted in Latest news and tagged Cyber Crime, Equality, Gender, Girls, ICTs, International Cooperation, Interpol, SDGs, UNODC, Women, Yury Fedotov on May 8, 2018 by Charles Nonde.
UNDP Administrator Ms. Helen Clark, visits Zambia
UNDP Administrator Ms. Helen Clark was in Zambia from July 16 to July 19 2015. During this visit she held a number of meetings with Republican President Mr. Edger Lungu, The National Assembly, Minister of Foreign Affairs and corporating partners of the United Nations in Zambia.
UNDP Administrator, Helen Clark on arrival in Chief Nyampande's area, Petauke, Eastern province, Zambia. Photo credit/UNIC Lusaka
She also took part in the official launch of the "HeforShe" Campaign which took place in Chief Nyampande area and Misolo Village in Petauke, of the Eastern Province Zambia some 500kms from the capital city Lusaka on July 18, 2015 she was accompanied by the UN Zambia Resident Coordinator Ms. Janet Rogan and UNDP staff. The launch was graced by the Head of State, various traditional Chiefs, the Ministers of Gender; Chiefs and Traditional Affairs, Women for Change and other corporating partners.
In Lusaka, she saw the President; the Vice President who hosted a lunch on environment and climate change resilience, attended by the Ministers of Mines, Energy and Water Development, Agriculture and Tourism as well as the French Ambassador and the Director of the Disaster Mitigation and Management Unit; the Speaker of the National Assembly and Chairs of main Committees and Caucuses, including the new SDG Caucus; the Minister of Foreign Affairs, who also hosted a reception for her; the Ministers of Commerce, Trade and Industry and Transport, Works and Supply and Communications, who co-hosted a meeting with the private sector; the Deputy Minister of Youth and Sports, who hosted a meeting with youth representatives. The Chief Justice hosted lunch with senior members of the judiciary. She also met the diplomatic community in Lusaka and the UN Country Team.
Students wearing branded attire for the "HeforShe" campaign. Photo Credit/UNIC Lusaka
Her field trip to Eastern Province was a great success. The President agreed to launch the Zambia HeForShe campaign and spent the whole day with the UN Team at Chief Nyamphande's village and then at Misolo village visiting the Anti-GBV One-Stop Shop there. We could not have a better platform for pushing forward this campaign. Driving around Eastern Province, Helen was struck by the persisting levels of rural poverty, which she had also seen in other countries, such as Malawi and Tanzania, which have not experienced conflict since independence. She found the persistent rural poverty and inequalities in such circumstances shocking and she hopes that, among other work, the UN (UNDP) extractives project, once launched, can become part of a solution for dealing with persistent rural poverty and inequalities.
About the global HeforShe Campaign, HeForShe is a solidarity campaign for gender equality initiated by UN Women. Its goal is to engage men and boys as agents of change for the achievement of gender equality and women's rights, by encouraging them to take action against inequalities faced by women and girls. Grounded in the idea that gender equality is an issue that affects all people — socially, economically and politically — it seeks to actively involve men and boys in a movement that was originally conceived as "a struggle for women by women". Some noticed the contradiction of a campaign for gender equality which only takes action against inequalities faced by women and girls, ignoring problems affecting men and boys.
Branded HeforShe Minibus at Chief Nyampandes Palace. Petauke, Eastern Province, Zambia. Photo Credit/UNIC Lusaka
On the HeForShe website, a map which uses a geo-locator to record global engagement in the campaign counts the number of men and boys around the world who have taken the HeForShe pledge, as UN Women works towards its goal of engaging 1 million men and boys by July 2015. The campaign website also includes implementation plans for UN agencies, individuals and civil society, as well as those on university and college campuses, both through online and sustained engagement.
"Initially we were asking the question, 'Do men care about gender equality?' and we found out that they do care," said Elizabeth Nyamayaro, senior adviser to the executive director of UN Women. "Then we started to get a lot of emails from men who signed up, who now want to do more."
This entry was posted in Latest news and tagged Equality, Gender, Helen Clark, SDGs, UN Women, Zambia on August 6, 2015 by Charles Nonde.


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McDuff argues the high court has already decided in Roe v. Wade and reaffirmed in Planned Parenthood v. Casey that states cannot ban abortions prior to a fetus' viability, which is around 24 weeks.
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Q: Nodemailer not working with Node v. 10.14.2 I'm trying to use Nodemailer with Node v. 10.14.2, but it keeps crashing when I run the server. The errormessage implies that the problem is in the source code of Nodemailer:
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Jim Allein, president of the Community Development Corporation, along with Matt Walter, secretary for the corporation and a Lancaster town councilman, don't want the property to be sold but rather developed.
Walter said in the meeting, as the three men discussed the potential sale, that they have received offers for the purchase of the property but have turned them down.
A developer wanted to turn the property into an apartment complex for seniors. However, the CDC and the board are looking to sell the property to a developer who wants to create an attraction that would be a focal point of the villages's Main Street business district.
The property still has eight vacancies that the CDC would like to see filled.
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There is currently no timetable for the appraisal to be finished or for the official listing of the property.
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William Cansdale, the superintendent of public works, said that if the funding is completely approved, the board could begin the bidding process by Feb. 22.
The board recently accepted $200,000 from a combination of Erie County and the Lancaster Industrial Development Agency. The project is set to begin as soon as the bidding ends.
The next Village Board meeting is scheduled for 7 p.m. Monday, Feb. 22, at the Lancaster Municipal Building, 5423 Broadway.
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News Rights at Risk at the United Nations
Rights at Risk at the United Nations
Ian Carey March 26, 2012 Letters, News
Open Letter to the Secretary General for the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD), Co-Chairs of the Bureau for Rio+20 and Member-States of the United Nations
We – the civil society organizations and social movements who have responded to the call of the United Nations General Assembly to participate in the Rio+20 process – feel that is our duty to call the attention of relevant authorities and citizens of the world to a situation that severely threatens the rights of all people and undermines the relevance of the United Nations.
Remarkably, we are witnessing an attempt by certain countries to weaken, or "bracket" or outright eliminate nearly all references to human rights obligations and equity principles in the text, "The Future We Want", for the outcome of Rio+20.
This includes references to the right to food and proper nutrition, the right to safe and clean drinking water and sanitation, the right to development and others. The right to a clean and healthy environment, which is essential to the realization of fundamental human rights, remains weak in the text. Even principles previously agreed upon in Rio in 1992 are being bracketed – the Polluter Pays Principle, Precautionary Principle, Common But Differentiated Responsibility (CBDR).
Many member states are opposing prescriptive language that commits governments to actually do what they claim to support in principle and act as duty bearers of human rights, including the provision of finance, technology and other means of implementation to support sustainable development effort in developing countries. On the other hand, there is a strong push for private sector investments and initiatives to fill in the gap left by the public sector. This risks privatizing and commoditizing common goods – such as water – which in turn endangers access and affordability, which are fundamental to such rights.
Although economic tools are essential to implement the decisions aiming for sustainability, social justice and peace, a private economy rationale should not prevail over the fulfillment of human needs and the respect of planetary boundaries. Therefore a strong institutional framework and regulation is needed. Weakly regulated markets have already proven to be a threat not only to people and nature, but to economies and nation states themselves. Markets must work for people, people should not work for markets.
From the ashes of World War II humanity gathered to build institutions aiming to build peace and prosperity for all, avoiding further suffering and destruction. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights spells out this collective will, and the United Nations organization was created to make it a reality. Alarmingly, this very institution is now being used as a platform to attack the very rights it should safeguard, leaving people without defense and putting the very relevance of the UN at stake.
We urge member states to bring the Rio+20 negotiations back on track to deliver the people's legitimate agenda and the realization of rights, democracy and sustainability, as well as respect for transparency, accountability and non-regression on progress made.
We call on the UN Secretary General to stand up for the legacy of the United Nations by ensuring that Rio+20 builds on the multi-generational effort to strengthen rights as the foundation of peace and prosperity.
We urge our fellow citizens of the world to stand up for the future we want, and let their voices be heard. To that end the Rio+20 process should be improved by adopting the proposals we submit below.
On Greater participation for MGs
We are concerned by the continuing exclusion of Major Groups from the formal negotiating process of the Rio+20 zero draft. Unlike in the Preparatory Committee Meetings and the Intersessional Meetings, Major Groups and other Stakeholders have not been allowed to present revisions or make statements on the floor of the meeting. Nor, we suspect will we be allowed to make submissions or participate fully in the working negotiation group meetings that are likely to follow. Despite the UN DESA having compiled a text that shows all the revisions suggested by Major Groups, these revisions to the zero draft have so far not been included in the official negotiating text.
We request that the Major Groups be given the opportunity to submit suggestions and wording which would then be added to the official text for consideration, indication of support or deletion, and potential inclusion by governments.
We appeal to the UNCSD Secretary General to urgently reverse this state of affairs and to ensure that Major Groups have a seat at the table and a voice in the room where the negotiations are taking place. Please ensure that at the very least, Major Groups are allowed a formal statement at the commencement of the next negotiating session and at every session where a new draft text is introduced.#
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Human rights in Dubai are based on the Constitution and enacted law, which supposedly promise equitable treatment of all people, regardless of race, nationality or social status, per Article 25 of the Constitution of the United Arab Emirates. Despite this, Freedom House has stated: "Extreme forms of self-censorship are widely practiced, particularly regarding issues such as local politics, culture, religion, or any other subject the government deems politically or culturally sensitive. The Dubai Media Free Zone (DMFZ), an area in which foreign media outlets produce print and broadcast material intended for foreign audiences, is the only arena in which the press operates with relative freedom."

Human rights organizations have complained about violation of human rights in Dubai. Most notably, some of the 250,000 foreign laborers in the city have been alleged to live in conditions charitably described by Human Rights Watch as being "less than humane". The mistreatment of foreign workers was a subject of the 2009 documentary, Slaves of Dubai.

Foreign workers and labour rights

Article 25 of the Constitution of the UAE provides for the equitable treatment of persons with regard to race, nationality, religious beliefs or social status. Foreign laborers in Dubai often live in conditions described by Human Rights Watch as being "less than humane", and was the subject of the documentary, Slaves of Dubai. A 2006 NPR report quoted Baya Sayid Mubarak, the Indian consul for labor and welfare in Dubai, as saying: "the city's economic miracle would not be possible without armies of poorly paid construction workers from the Indian sub-continent". The NPR report stated that foreign construction workers lived "eight and ten to a room in labor camps" and that "many are trapped in a cycle of poverty and debt, which amounts to little more than indentured servitude."

BBC News has reported that: "local newspapers often carry stories of construction workers allegedly not being paid for months on end. They are not allowed to move jobs and if they leave the country to go home they will almost certainly lose the money they say they are owed." Additionally, some of the workers have allegedly been forced to give up their passports upon entering Dubai, making it difficult to return home. In September 2005, the Minister of Labour ordered one company to pay unpaid salaries within 24 hours after workers protested and published the name of the offending company.

In December 2005, the Indian consulate in Dubai submitted a report to the Government of India detailing labor problems faced by Indian expatriates in the emirate. The report highlighted delayed payment of wages, substitution of employment contracts, premature termination of services and excessive working hours as being some of the challenges faced by Indian workers in the city.

On 21 March 2006, workers at the construction site of Burj Khalifa, upset over bus timings and working conditions, rioted, damaging cars, offices, computers, and construction tools. The global financial crisis has caused the working class of Dubai to be affected especially badly, with many workers not being paid but also being unable to leave the country.

The city's discriminatory legal system and unequal treatment of foreigners has been brought to light by its attempts to cover up information on the 2007 rape of a 15-year-old French-Swiss national, by three locals, one of whose HIV-positive status was hidden by the authorities for several months; and by the recent mass imprisonment of migrant laborers, most of whom were from Asia, on account of their protests against poor wages and living conditions.
Despite protests by Human Rights Watch and several governments, companies allegedly continue to take the passports of workers and refuse to pay promised salaries. These practices have been labeled as "modern slavery" by some organizations. In 2013, a European national by the name of Marte Dalelv, was arrested and jailed on trumped up charges.

In 2012, a workers' camp in Sonapur  had their water cut for 20 days and electricity for 10 days, as well as no pay for three months. They were told that they had been forewarned that the lease was about to expire, and their option was to go to the Sharjah camp, which the workers did not want to do because it was "very dirty and [had] a foul smell.

Prior to the mid 2000s, camel owners made use of child jockeys, most of whom were kids kidnapped from other parts of the world. After international outcry, the country decided to slowly put an end to this practice. There are still, however, some violations of this ban.

There are various examples of local folk ill-treating people, just on the basis of nationality or race. In one instance, a local taxi passenger caused a serious injury to a foreign driver. The passenger would not follow the driver's instructions to wear his seatbelt and not eat in taxi, and gave the reason that he was an Emirati (Emiratis being the native population and citizens of the United Arab Emirates).

The problem of stateless people (known as Bidoon) has been around for many years. Many have languished without proper care, even though many of them are natives of the land. These people have not been able to complete their education, secure jobs and have found it hard to marry. A small number of them have been able to acquire UAE nationality or that of Comoros Island.

Dubai law
Homosexuality is illegal. The death penalty is one of the punishments for homosexuality. Kissing in some public places is illegal and can result in deportation. Expats in Dubai have been deported for kissing in public.

Dubai has a modest dress code. The dress code is part of Dubai's criminal law. Sleeveless tops and short dresses are not allowed at Dubai's malls. Clothes must be in appropriate lengths. Expats and tourists are not allowed to consume alcohol outside of licensed venues.

Apostasy is a crime punishable by death in the UAE; in practice this has never been applied. UAE incorporates hudud crimes of Sharia law into its Penal Code - apostasy being one of them. Article 1 and Article 66 of UAE's Penal Code requires hudud crimes to be punished with the death penalty, therefore apostasy is punishable by death in the UAE.

Non-Muslim expatriates can be liable to Sharia rulings on marriage, divorce and child custody. Emirati women must receive permission from male guardian to marry and remarry. The requirement is derived from Sharia, and has been federal law since 2005. In all emirates, it is illegal for Muslim women to marry non-Muslims. In the UAE, a marriage union between a Muslim woman and non-Muslim man is punishable by law, since it is considered a form of "fornication".

During the month of Ramadan, it is illegal to publicly eat, drink, or smoke between sunrise and sunset. Exceptions are made for pregnant women and children. The law applies to both Muslims and non-Muslims, and failure to comply may result in arrest. In 2008 a Russian woman was put on trial for drinking juice in public during the month of Ramadan.

Sharing a hotel room with the opposite sex is prohibited under Dubai's law unless married or closely related. There is to be no display of public affection. Taking pictures of women without their consent is also prohibited.

Religious freedom

Islam is the official religion in Dubai. A policy of religious toleration allows non-Muslims to practice their faith in a private residence or official place of worship, or they can petition the government for a land grant and permission to build a religious institution to hold religious services, which may be a slow process.

Thirteen Christian Churches exist, along with facilities for Hindus, Sikhs, and Bahá'ís. Non-Muslim groups are generally allowed to meet and advertise their events, but the law prohibits and punishes proselytizing.

There are no known Jewish places of worship in the UAE, but a synagogue is scheduled to be complete by 2022.

Freedom of expression

Human rights groups have expressed concerns about freedom of expression in Dubai, which is often limited by enacted laws or Ministerial edicts in the name of protecting traditional Islamic morality or the image and reputation of Dubai and its leaders.

In 2007, the Dubai government shut down two Pakistani television channels, Geo News and ARY One.  Their entertainment, but not news and political programming, were eventually permitted to broadcast in Dubai. The Dubai Ministry of Culture and Media banned the exhibition of a play, "Kholkhal", just hours before it was scheduled to be performed at the 8th annual Gulf Theater Festival. While journalists can no longer be jailed for doing their job, other legal actions can be taken against them. Several members of the Dubai press remain on a government list as being banned from being published within the Emirate. There is also reportedly a degree of self-censorship that occurs, for fear of governmental sanctions, of certain topics that are critical of government policy, the royal family, or may offend traditional Islamic morality.

In July 2013, a video was uploaded onto YouTube, which depicted a local driver hitting an expatriate worker, following a road related incident. Using part of his local head gear, the local driver whips the expatriate and also pushes him around, before other passers-by intervene. A few days later, Dubai Police announced that both the local driver and the person who filmed the video have been arrested. It was also revealed that the local driver was a senior UAE government official. The video once again brings into question the way that lower classes of foreign workers are treated. Police in November 2013 also arrested a US citizen and some UAE citizens, in connection with a YouTube parody video which allegedly portrayed Dubai and its youth in a bad light. The video was shot in areas of Satwa, Dubai and featured gangs learning how to fight each other using simple weapons, including shoes, the aghal, etc. Eventually, the US citizen was released; in a later interview with the BBC, the Sheikh of Dubai, Sheikh Mohammad mentioned that his treatment was unfair.

The Expo 2020 Dubai was cited as being used by the government as a front to clean the country's public image on the global platform in October 2021. The Human Right Watch called out the systematic violation of human rights committed by the Emirate. As per the report by HRW, critics of the government and human rights activists have been a constant target of the government and have been arrested and tortured in prisons, especially since 2015. Expo 2020 postponed to 2021 following the Covid-19 pandemic was organized to be held from October 1, 2021 to March 31, 2022, with a theme of "Connecting Minds, Creating the Future." In September 2021, the European Parliament in condemnation of the UAE government's repeated abuse of human rights pushed participating states to avoid taking part in the Expo.

A Citizen Lab report following the forensic analysis of the smartphones owned by Jamal Khashoggi's wife, Hanan Elatr, in December 2021 revealed that her devices were infected by spyware in April 2018. Hanan was detained as soon as she landed at the Dubai airport and interrogated for hours by the authorities. Her Android phones confiscated during interrogation were amongst other things like her laptop and passwords, which was infected with Israeli NSO Group spyware application, Pegasus, by the authorities to further spy on her in the months that followed. Allegedly, she was hacked exactly a few months before Khashoggi was murdered at the Saudi Arabian consulate in Istanbul, Turkey. Khashoggi, a renowned journalist at The Washington Post who wrote critical articles about the Saudi regime and its leadership, was murdered in October 2018, a few months after the reported hacking and spying of his wife.

The 2007 censorship of two Pakistani satellite channels
On 16 November 2007 Tecom stopped broadcast of two major Pakistani satellite news channels, uplinked from Dubai Media City, which was initially marketed by Tecom under the tagline "Freedom to Create." The Dubai government had ordered Tecom to shut down the popular independent Pakistani news channels Geo News and ARY One World on the demand of Pakistan's military regime led by General Pervez Musharraf. This was implemented by du Samacom disabling their SDI & ASI streams. Later, policy makers in Dubai permitted these channels to air their entertainment programs, but news, current affairs and political analysis were forbidden. Although subsequently the conditions were removed, marked differences have since been observed in their coverage. This incident has had a serious impact on all organizations in the media city with Geo TV and ARY OneWorld considering relocation.

Zero tolerance drug policy
Drugs found in urine or blood testing count as "possession" under UAE law. Raymond Bingham, BBC's DJ Grooverider, was sentenced to four years in prison after a pair of jeans in his luggage was found to contain just over 2 grams of marijuana. The Dubai authorities have been known to stop tourists on layovers at the airport and are now using extremely sensitive electronic detection equipment, including urine and blood screening, to search for traces of illegal substances. Keith Brown, a British national, was arrested on September 17, 2007 after authorities claim to have discovered a speck of cannabis on the bottom of one of his shoes. He has also been sentenced to four years in prison. Other tourists and residents have been sentenced to execution for selling cannabis. However, there are no reports of anyone being executed in the UAE for solely drug offences, unlike neighboring Saudi Arabia. Another UK citizen, Tracy Wilkinson, was arrested and accused of being a "drugs baroness" in 2005 after authorities found codeine in her blood. Wilkinson has a bad back and received an injection of codeine at a Dubai hospital. She ended up spending two months in a cell where she contracted dysentery, head lice and an infestation of fleas before she was eventually released on bail. German television producer Cat Le-Huy was arrested in January 2008 for possessing a bottle of the over-the-counter hormone sleep aid Melatonin. Authorities claimed that some dirt in Mr. Le-Huy's luggage was hashish. A Vancouver resident named Bert Tatham was arrested at Dubai International Airport returning home from Afghanistan (where he was working with farmers to try to convince them not to grow poppies). The anti-narcotics officer was found to have two dead poppy bulbs and a tiny amount of hashish melted into the seams of one of his trouser pockets. After spending more than 10 months in prison, he was eventually pardoned by U.A.E. President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan.

Women's rights

In 2006, less than 20% of Emirati women were part of the national labor force. UAE has the second lowest percentage of local women working in the GCC. In 2008–2009, only 21% of Emirati women were part of the labor force. UAE has the highest percentage of total female labor participation in the GCC (including expatriate women). However, Kuwait has the highest percentage of local female labor participation in the GCC because more than 45% of Kuwaiti women are part of the national labor force. 80% of women in UAE are classified as household workers (maids).

The UAE's judicial system is derived from the civil law system and Sharia law. The court system consists of civil courts and Sharia courts. According to Human Rights Watch, UAE's civil and criminal courts apply elements of Sharia law, codified into its criminal code and family law, in a way which discriminates against women.

In June 2019, Princess Haya bint Hussein, the 45-year-old wife of Dubai's ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, reportedly fled from the royal family to Germany seeking political asylum, for an undisclosed reason. In July 2019, The Telegraph reported Sheikh Rashid Al Maktoum was fighting a divorce case in London. This is the third case in recent years of a close relative of Sheikh Mohammed escaping the royal family. Two of Sheikh Mohammed's daughters from another wife, Sheikha Latifa bint Mohammed Al Maktoum and Shamsa Al Maktoum, attempted an escape, with the former fleeing due to alleged abuse and house arrest at the royal palace.

After being last seen in a 16 February 2021 leaked video where Princess Latifa claimed of being held hostage by her father and Dubai's ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, a photo of her surfaced online in May 2021 from a shopping mall with two women. Sources later claimed that the women who posted regarding the night out with the princess were 'paid' to do so. A total of three photographs emerged on social media showing Latifa at a restaurant called Bice Mare, as per the location tagged on social media. The United Nations human rights office had been demanding proof of her life from the UAE rulers since her disappearance and surfacing of the February 2021 video. According to the Dubai's law a husband is also permitted to beat his children and wife.

Rape victims
Rape victims are at risk of punishment for other "crimes" in Dubai. In a small number of cases, the courts of the UAE have jailed women after they reported being raped and it was proven that the accusations were false. A British woman, after she reported being gang raped by three men, was fined AED 1000 after confessing to consuming alcohol without a license; her attackers are currently serving ten years in prison. Another British woman was charged with public intoxication and extramarital sex (with her fiancé, not the accused) after she reported being raped; in one final case, an 18-year-old Emirati woman withdrew her complaint of gang rape inside a car by 6 men when faced with a flogging and jail term. The woman served one year in jail for having consensual sex outside marriage with one of the men on a separate occasion.

In July 2013, a Norwegian woman, Marte Dalelv, reported rape to the police and received a prison sentence for "illicit sex and alcohol consumption" she was subsequently pardoned. The Emirates Center for Human Rights expressed concern over Dubai's treatment of rape victims.

LGBT rights

Both Federal and Emirate law prohibit homosexuality and cross-dressing with punishment ranging from
death, life in prison, floggings, fines, deportation, chemical castration, forced psychological treatments, honor killings, vigilante executions, beatings, forced anal examinations, forced hormone injections, and torture.

Prostitution
Prostitution in Dubai is illegal but still exists. Dubai is considered to have the most popular sex industry out of the UAE. Prostitution starts with pimps luring women from different parts of the world, like Eastern Europe, Central Asia, Southeast Asia, East Africa, Iraq, Iran, and Morocco. Pimps tell them they are going to be maids and then force them into prostitution. Each family is allowed a certain number of visas in order to hire foreign workers and the 'extra' foreign workers not needed by the family are sold to a middle man. Women have their passports taken away after they reach Dubai. It was reported that there were over 25,000 foreign prostitutes in the country. Women cannot report being forced into prostitution to the police because they would be arrested for engaging in illegal sex acts. In some cases, there are minors involved in the prostitution rings. In 2007, a news report reported that a total of 170 prostitutes were arrested, along with 12 pimps and 65 clients most of whom were from China.

Forced disappearances and torture
UAE has escaped the Arab Spring; however, more than 100 Emirati activists were jailed and tortured because they sought reforms. Since 2011, the UAE government has increasingly carried out forced disappearances. Many foreign nationals and Emirati citizens have been arrested and abducted by the state, the UAE government denies these people are being held (to conceal their whereabouts), placing these people outside the protection of the law. According to Human Rights Watch, the reports of forced disappearance and torture in the UAE are of grave concern.

The Arab Organisation of Human Rights has obtained testimonies from many defendants, for its report on "Forced Disappearance and Torture in the UAE", who reported that they had been kidnapped, tortured and abused in detention centres. The report included 16 different methods of torture including severe beatings, threats with electrocution and denying access to medical care.

In 2013, 94 Emirati activists were held in secret detention centres and put on trial for allegedly attempting to overthrow the government. Human rights organizations have spoken out against the secrecy of the trial. An Emirati, whose father is among the defendants, was arrested for tweeting about the trial. In April 2013, he was sentenced to 10 months in jail.

Repressive measures were also used against people in order to justify the UAE government's claim that there is an "international plot" in which UAE citizens and foreigners were working together to destabilize the country. Foreign nationals were also subjected to a campaign of deportations. There are many documented cases of Egyptians and other foreign nationals who had spent years working in the UAE and were then given only a few days to leave the country.

Foreign nationals subjected to forced disappearance include two Libyans and two Qataris. Amnesty reported that the Qatari men have been abducted by the UAE government and the UAE government has withheld information about the men's fate from their families. Amongst the foreign nationals detained, imprisoned and expelled is Iyad El-Baghdadi, a popular blogger and Twitter personality. He was arrested by UAE authorities, detained, imprisoned and then expelled from the country. Despite his lifetime residence in the UAE, as a Palestinian citizen, El-Baghdadi had no recourse to contest this order. He could not be deported back to the Palestinian territories, therefore he was deported to Malaysia.

In 2012, Dubai police subjected three British citizens to beatings and electric shocks after arresting them on drugs charges. The British Prime Minister, David Cameron, expressed "concern" over the case and raised it with the UAE President, Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, during his 2013 state visit to the UK. The three men were pardoned and released in July 2013.

In April 2009, a video tape of torture smuggled out of the UAE showed Sheikh Issa bin Zayed Al Nahyan torturing a man with whips, electric cattle prods, wooden planks with protruding nails and running him over repeatedly with a car. In December 2009 Issa appeared in court and proclaimed his innocence. The trial ended on 10 January 2010, when Issa was cleared of the torture of Mohammed Shah Poor. Human Rights Watch criticised the trial and called on the government to establish an independent body to investigate allegations of abuse by UAE security personnel and other persons of authority. The US State Department has expressed concern over the verdict and said all members of Emirati society "must stand equal before the law" and called for a careful review of the decision to ensure that the demands of justice are fully met in this case.

See also

 LGBT rights in United Arab Emirates
Human Rights
Labor rights

References

External links

Inside Dubai's labor camps- Picture gallery from The Guardian of South Asian migrant labor in Dubai
Far From Home-- National Geographic Article on Human Rights and Workers in the U.A.E.
Slaves of Dubai-- Witness Magazine
The Independent-- The Dark Side of Dubai
Rape Laws in the United Arab Emirates and Perceptions of Rape and Sexual Assault

Human rights in the United Arab Emirates
Dubai society
Egalitarianism
Personhood
Labor rights

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Sarah is the owner and team lead at DogRunnin. She is motivated by the conviction that when we are proactive in canine health, well being and fitness it will extened to the whole family and then to our communities. As an entrepreneur, she is passionate about creating unique opportunities in Nova Scotia and she thrives when facilitating opportunities for her staff to excell (and they do!). Invested in harness dog sports, Sarah is excited about sport development in the region and loves to coach 6-legged teams to achieve their fullest potential together.
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