“Don’t whitewash the UAE’s gross human rights abuses”: NGOs call on World Tolerance Summit speakers to cancel their participation

October 28, 2019

Dear participants of the World Tolerance Summit, We, the undersigned, call on all participants and speakers at the World Tolerance Summit taking place in Dubai on November 13 and 14 to withdraw from the event, which promotes a misleading image of the United Arab Emirates as a model of tolerance and openness. This is the second World Tolerance Summit, initiated in 2018 to “strengthen the UAE’s position as a model of co-existence and cultural tolerance around the world.”

Open letter to the Emirati authorities to free human rights defender Ahmed Mansoor on his 50th birthday

October 16, 2019

October 16, 2019 Your Excellency, Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed al Nahyan,