United Arab Emirates

US Government Reports

U.S. Department of State	Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009 Country Reports on Terrorism - 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016 International Religious Freedom Report - 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013 Trafficking in Persons Report - 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013
CIA	Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments The World Factbook - United Arab Emirates
Library of Congress	Country Studies/Area Handbooks Program
Library of Congress-Congressional Research Service (CRS)	The United Arab Emirates (UAE): Issues for U.S. Policy - Sept. 2023, Jan. 2023 Issues for U.S. Policy - March 2020, Women in the Middle East and North Africa: Issues for Congress – Dec. 2021
U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF)	Factsheet on Shari’a and LGBTI Persons – March 2021 Violating Rights – Enforcing the World’s Blasphemy Laws – Dec. 2020

Foreign Government Organization Reports

Canada Immigration and Refugee Board

ZZZ106014.E - Palestine and United Arab Emirates: residence status of stateless Palestinians, including access to employment, education, health care and other services, and the ability to travel in and out of the country; the requirements and procedures to renew residence status; treatment of stateless Palestinians whose residence status has expired – Nov. 2017

Non-Government Organization Reports

Amnesty International	UAE: The Human Rights Situation in the United Arab Emirates Ahead of COP28 - June 2023 Amnesty International Report 2022/23: The state of the world’s human rights - Mar. 2023 Covid-19 Crackdowns - Police Abuse and the Global Pandemic – Dec. 2020 Amnesty International Global Report: Death Sentences and Executions – 2020 Human Rights in the Middle East and North Africa: Review of 2018
BBC	Timeline
Country Maps	University of Texas at Austin - Map Collection
Election Guide	Recent Elections
Freedom House	Women's Rights in the Middle East and North Africa 2010 - March 2010 Freedom in the World - 2022, 202 1, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017 Transnational Repression Report - 2021 Freedom on the Net - 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016
Human Rights Watch	Trapped - How Male Guardianship Policies Restrict Women’s Travel and Mobility in the Middle East and North Africa - July 2023 The Persecution of Ahmed Mansoor ; How the United Arab Emirates Silenced its Most Famous Human Rights Activist – Jan. 2021 Migrant Workers' Rights on Saadiyat Island in the United Arab Emirates - Feb. 2015 "I Already Bought You" Abuse and Exploitation of Female Migrant Domestic Workers in the United Arab Emirates - October 2014 The Island of Happiness Revisted: A progress report on institutional commitments to address abuses of migrant workers on Abu Dhabi's Saadiyat Island – March 2012 "The Island of Happiness" Exploitation of Migrant Workers on Saadivyat Island, Abu Dhabi- May 2009 "Building Towers, Cheating Workers" Exploitation of Migrant Construction Workers in the United Arab Emirates - November 2006
Minority Rights Group	Minorities and Indigenous Peoples – May 2020
World Health Organization	Webpage

Country Profiles

Amnesty International	BBC
Freedom House	Human Rights Watch

Updated April 25, 2024