Beth: The Arab Observatory for Human Rights of the Arab Parliament expressed its total rejection of the decision issued by the European Parliament on human rights in the United Arab Emirates, considering that it included incorrect information and fallacies that are not based on facts or objective evidence, while ignoring the great efforts that The UAE is taking action in this field, adding that this decision is an extension of the non-objective and non-neutral approach that the European Parliament deals with the human rights situation in the Arab world in general.

The Arab Observatory for Human Rights added that the unacceptable vocabulary included in the European Parliament’s resolution represents an unacceptable interference in the internal affairs of the UAE, and that there is nothing in the dictionary of international parliamentary work that authorizes a regional parliamentary organization to assess the human rights situation in countries outside its regional scope.

The Observatory confirmed that the Arab countries pay great attention at all levels to the human rights file, as they have recently launched pioneering initiatives in the field of human rights, whether at the national level or at the Arab level, which makes them a leader in this field, compared to other countries that raise slogans of protection human rights, without being reflected on the ground.

The Observatory clarified that it is not against evaluating the human rights system in the Arab countries. Rather, one of the main tasks of establishing the Arab Observatory for Human Rights is to maintain, support, protect and defend human rights, but it is against the approach that relies on politicizing human rights issues or using them as a tool for pressure and blackmail.