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Let's play a game: the first to spot a pedestrian crossing wins a prize!!Īnother interesting case related with women behind the wheel: a pregnant lady that was driving in Dubai had an accident.
Lesson learnt? If you kill someone, even if they literally place themselves in front of your moving vehicle, it will be your fault. The price to pay? A traumatic experience, a couple of nights in custody, a fine that would go towards the repairs of the road divider and AED 250,000 (USD 68.000 ) in blood money for the families of those that passed away.
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So this girl, whose only crime was to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, tried to avoid killing the 2 men who miscalculated their crossing and, not only killed them but crashed against a road divider. It’s not uncommon to see people attempting to cross these multiple lane speedways because not everybody has a car and, eventually, you have to move. The UAE’s roads are mainly highways and those don’t have pedestrian crossings. Let’s look at some examples of cases that took place in Dubai while I was living there, where the law didn’t seem to be that fair:Ī colleague at work has a friend who was driving on the highway when 2 guys decided to cross. This affects the equality of races, fair trials or punishment etiquette, to name a few. In many points, the Sharia law fails to comply to the international declaration of human rights. While in some countries religion still plays an important role to create a social conscious and influence individual behavior, it’s in the Muslim world where religion presents itself as the mother of all rules. Dubai proudly displays the tallest building in the whole wide world, but, at whose cost was it built? People tend to forget what’s behind the surface.įor me it makes no sense that a country bases its law on its religion. No wonder the UAE hasn’t signed most international human-rights and labor-rights treaties. Laborers queuing for the ride back "home" (photo from ) To add to this, sometimes laborers get paid not monthly but at the end of their contract, making it even more impossible for them to make a move. This way, even if a worker is unhappy, he won’t be able to quit, change jobs or leave the country. Although not legal, it isn’t at all uncommon for employers to apprehend the passports of laborers during their contract. I think the above fits just right.Īlso in the declaration one can read “ slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms.” In Dubai, as a laborer, you are likely to experience a modern form of slavery. The International Declaration of Human Rights says: “ No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment“. These are the workers that will be building skyscrapers non-stop even though the law requires construction to stop when certain high temperatures are reached (on those days, funny enough, the radio would never announce the same temperature your car dashboard displays). It means working 7 days a week and only taking holidays once every 2 years. It means humans living in boxes without AC or fans, when temperatures easily reach 50C and more. Human rights violations doesn’t necessarily mean that people will earn ridiculously low salaries in a place where things cost a fair share. The system is unfair and many tend to overlook that, lured by the luxuries they most probably would have never been able to enjoy at home: full-time babysitters, cooks, live-in maids, gardeners, drivers. I can’t stay in Dubai earning a great salary knowing that, while I earn those figures, people around me are being exploited that way. In a couple of decades, exploited workers coming mainly from Southern Asia have literally understood the meaning of the expression “sweat, blood and tears” to serve the so-called lifestyle that Dubai residents – locals and expats – seek. Dubai has gone from nothing to what it is now (a great pile of concrete and glass) in almost no time. We could start with the most obvious of cases: exploitation of the labor force. Side by side with that misery there is violation of the most basic of human rights. It’s not the poorest place on Earth, that is true, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t a fair share of misery going on. If you mention the word Dubai to anyone around the world they will automatically think of richness and fast development. In no particular other, here are some of the reasons why I left Dubai and won’t probably come back. Not your typical census in most parts of the world!