United Arab Emirates

In 2025, a United Arab Emirates (UAE) court upheld the unfair convictions and abusive sentences of 53 human rights defenders and dissidents in the country’s second-largest mass trial. The UAE has promoted a public image of tolerance and openness while restricting scrutiny of its rampant systemic human rights violations and fossil fuel expansion. Migrant workers in the UAE face widespread abuses including wage theft and inadequate protection against dangerous heat-related health risks. A growing body of evidence indicates that the UAE has been providing support to the Rapid Support Forces, an abusive warring party in Sudan that has carried out atrocities amounting to crimes against humanity in the devastating conflict in Sudan.