However, the legal system’s treatment of victims of sexual crimes has drawn particular condemnation.
“In the UAE, there have been multiple cases over the past few years where the state has charged women with criminal offences after they have reported rape,” said Samer Muscati, a researcher in the women right’s division of Human Rights Watch.
“When it comes to seeking justice for sexual violence, women in the UAE still face formidable and often insurmountable barriers.”
In 2010, the case of an 18-year-old Emirati – who was sentenced to a year in prison for illicit sex after she reported that she had been gang raped by six men – drew international outrage. Dr Rima Al Sabban, an assistant professor at Zayed University who specialises in women’s issues, said that the system can discourage women from reporting rape.
Let's say here in the US we adopt the same perspective and make it difficult for women to report, shame them etc.
Then you daughter or wife gets raped...or the daughter or wife of your neighbor.
Will there be justice?
I contend that this is not just a failure of the govt system, but of the people around them, who are also responsible to enact justice with the collective system fails.
But remember, we could write an article about our country, where it is the most difficult among all nations to stay out of prison or jail.
I am not sure having the lowest incidence of reported rate is worse than having the highest incidence of imprisonment. Perhaps we should fix our own crap and then focus on other peoples' crap.
But in reality, there is nothing we can do about either one.
