Princess Latifa: What are Women’s Rights in Dubai?

Dubai: The case of Princess Latifa has shocked the world. She’s the daughter of the ruler of Dubai. The princess incriminates her father for having her prisoner in the city. Since she tried to flee in 2018, and she feared for her life.

The United Nations has since said it will question the United Arab Emirates (UAE) about her. In June 2019, Princess Haya bint Hussein, the 45-year-old wife of Princess Latifa’s father. Moreover, they fled to Germany and sought political shelter. On the other hand, Latifa’s sister, Shamsa, also attempted to escape. It’s an upsetting story, with arguments of abuse and control against one of the Gulf’s most powerful men.

Moreover, women in the UAE are allowing to drive, vote, work, and native belongings. A report from the world economic Forum ranked the UAE second-best in the Middle East and North African region for gender equality. However, First, in the WEF’s Global Gender Gap Report, the Mena region had the lowest score of all the regions. Apart from Israel, none of its countries were in the top 100. Moreover, the UAE was ranking 120th in the world out of 153.

The new law explains private violence as abuse or threats that an individual’s, guardianship, jurisdiction, authority, or responsibility. Moreover, that a decision over whether to convict someone of domestic violence. On the other hand, what sounds like to be event is that the state is take out the most conspicuous things that it has written down, in its own words in its laws, on the statute books, that show an attitude hostile to gender equality, Devin Kenney, Gulf researcher for Amnesty International.

A Hierarchy of Status among Women is set to Codified in Law:

Any individual visiting the UAE is subject to its laws. However, there is no barring for tourists. There were a few high-profile cases of tourists getting arrested while on holiday in Dubai. Moreover, in 2017, a British woman was arrested and termed to one year in prison for having consensual sex with a man she wasn’t married to. 

In general, one particular legal change will in nature. And put into law what is before the private hierarchy – with wealthy expatriate women at the top, Countrywomen second, and then migrant domestic workers.

According to the International Labour Organization (ILO), in 2017 low-paid migrant workers – who Mr. Kenney says was an “extreme class disadvantaged” made up about 80% of the UAE’s total population.

Moreover, Female migrants, in particular, are mainly private workers from South and Southeast Asia. Mr. Kenne says they have “incredibly limited rights“.

Mr. Kenne also mentions an article of the penal code which says ‘consensual violation of honor’ can be prosecute. In practice, he says, used to target consensual sex, particularly if it breaks gender norms. On the other hand, women who become pregnant outside marriage face up to a year in prison for migrant workers. This is a sentence that must be serve before they can leave the country.

As per a UAE official quoted in a Guardian report last year, several thousand migrant women in the country have children born outside of marriage. Rape victims are prosecuting under the laws against extramarital sex.