Talk:Human rights in the United Arab Emirates

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[edit] Merger of Gay rights

• Strong oppose - A separate gay rights article should be retained as there are gay rights articles about most countries that are currently helpfully categorized together at Category:Gay rights by country and Category:LGBT in the Middle East Scarykitty 13:35, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
• Comment To begin with, I think some more clarity is required in the "Human rights" article. What does prostitution have to do with human rights (unless we're talking about forced prostitution)? Now, on the question of whether or not to merge the two articles, if there is enough material on gay rights in the UAE, then a separate article is warranted. If there isn't enough material, and we're only planning to regurgitate what is mentioned as the law of the land per the UAE constitution, then it should be included as a subsection of the human rights article. AreJay 03:39, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
• Strong Support - I think more attention would be drawn to the issue if it was combined with other civil rights issues in the UAE. The cross referencing can be fixed. It makes more sense to combine.
• Strong Opposition - While clearly these are related issues, GLBT are clearly a separate subset of human rights that have a very strong public interest in keeping the Gay issues in the UAE separate from human rights at large as there is an entire series based on global GLBT by geography. This makes it easier to find what conduct is and is not acceptable depending one's location. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 60.240.254.21 (talk) 15:17, 21 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Internet Censorship

If anyone is interested, the following article defines the UAE's policies concerning internet censorship: http://wikileaks.be/wiki/United_Arab_Emirates_Internet_censorship_plan_%282006%29 I have not the time nor the will to compress the information given to strict wikipedian standards. The memo was issued by Osman Sultan, CEO of one of the two telecom providers in the UAE. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.185.127.19 (talk) 21:00, 17 March 2008 (UTC)