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UAE: Hosting COP28 Amid Longstanding Repression
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UAE: Hosting COP28 Amid Longstanding Repression

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) hosted the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28) in 2023 and used it to burnish its image despite pushing for fossil fuel expansion and maintaining a zero-tolerance policy toward dissent, Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report 2024. The UAE, one of the world’s largest oil producers and per capita greenhouse...

Human rights groups send COP28 demands to UAE, governments
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Human rights groups send COP28 demands to UAE, governments

GENEVA, Sept 13 (Reuters) – More than 200 civil society groups have written to the United Arab Emirates (UAE), host of this year’s COP28 U.N. climate summit, and all participating governments with a series of demands concerning the Gulf nation’s human rights record. The UAE, a Gulf trading and tourism hub, big oil producer and...