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Corrupt practices in UAE
Claim Reparation

Learn about corrupt practices in United Arab Emirates. The head of a business empire based in Abu Dhabi was...CORRUPT PRACTICES IN UAE

Rome Statute
Forms of Reparation

Dictators unsuccessfully claimed immunity from prosecution for crimes against humanity and war. ....ROME STATUTE

Human Rights

The UN Human Right Council (HRC) consists of 47 UN member states which are elected directly based on the....HUMAN RIGHTS

Indo Gulf ‘Reparation Mechanisms’

The Right to Reparation is expressly guaranteed by Global and Regional Human Rights Instruments....Indo Gulf Reparations

Remedy and Reparation for Victims

Human rights law, humanitarian law and the international law recognizes that States bear the primary responsibility to acknowledge and address systematic human rights violations against victim to respect and ensure effective reparations that encompasses restitution, compensation, rehabilitation, satisfaction and guarantees of non-repetition. Reparations publicly affirm that victims are rights-holders entitled to redress. It also recalls the responsibilities of States to end impunity and to prosecute those responsible...MORE

Individual Rights and freedoms

The Rome Statute was based on respect for individual rights and freedoms and included mechanisms to ensure impartial justice, the ICC could not be viewed as an "extraordinary or special court", the latter being national courts which replace ordinary courts and which do not apply established legal procedures. Article 75(2) of the Statute empowers the Court to make a reparations order against a convicted person, specifying reparations to, or in respect of, victims. 1. The Court shall establish principles relating to reparations to, or in respect of, ....MORE

“Sometimes 'Reparation' does not change the situation, but it changes our attitude towards the situation and gives us hope which changes our entire lives.” ‘UAE Judgment For Sale

Corrupt practices in UAE

The head of a business empire based in Abu Dhabi was attacked by a posse of policemen in civil dress at his office; robbed of cash and valuables to force him to withdraw a lawsuit against a property owner. He sought intervention from the police. The police did come, but instead of helping him, he was shackled and literally dragged out of the office and on through the street in the presence of known friends and bystanders. He was confined to a detention center and brutally tortured and later taken to central prison. It took six months....MORE

Treaty Affairs

The Division for Treaty Affairs is one of four divisions of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). The Division is headed by a Director, who is accountable to the Executive Director of UNODC. The work of the Division is organized in the following sub-entities: 1. Treaty and Legal Affairs Branch, 2. Terrorism Prevention Branch, 3. Secretariat of the International Narcotics Control Board. The objectives of the Division for Treaty Affairs, pursued in close coordination with other divisions of UNODC and with other partners...MORE