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Change in Visa Rules Proposed to Fight Crime

(Afkar Abdullah and Anwar Ahmed)

19 May 2009

SHARJAH/ ABU DHABI - Visa rules for entry to the UAE are to be made more stringent under an amendment draft that awaits cabinet approval.

Specifically, the proposed change is to the federal law on human trafficking of 2006 and seeks to combat crime, according to Saeed Mohammed Al Ghafli, head of the Anti Human Trafficking Committee (AHTC), the organisation that has piloted the draft.

Al Ghafli, who is also executive director in the Ministry of State for FNC Affairs, told a symposium in Sharjah on Monday that the AHTC proposal emerged from a strategic plan that included international cooperation.

The UAE has already signed cooperation agreements with India, Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and China to organise labour supply to the country and combat human trafficking.

A similar agreement with Armenia is expected soon, its embassy in Abu Dhabi said on Monday. Ambassador Vahagn Melikian told Khaleej Times his country would extend full support to the UAE crackdown on human trafficking.

Al Ghafli said that the number of human trafficking cases in the UAE since 2008 was 20, up from 10 the previous year, 80 per cent of the victims having been forced into prostitution. Those convicted had received jail sentences of up to 10 years.

UAE is second in the US State Department’s list of countries cooperating in the matter of human trafficking for 2007. It is the first in the Gulf.

Many centres in the UAE provide support, among them the Social Centre of the Abu Dhabi police and Women and Children Sheltering Centre run jointly by AHTC and Red Crescent.

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Tom Jones wrote:Al Ghafli said that the number of human trafficking cases in the UAE since 2008 was 20, up from 10 the previous year, 80 per cent of the victims having been forced into prostitution. Those convicted had received jail sentences of up to 10 years.

Wow, these cops are really working hard. There would have to be 200 prostitutes every night in Rattlesnake alone yet they only found 20 cases of forced prostitution last year in the whole country?

Nice work boys, you deserve a promotion.

Captain Australia wrote:

Tom Jones wrote:Al Ghafli said that the number of human trafficking cases in the UAE since 2008 was 20, up from 10 the previous year, 80 per cent of the victims having been forced into prostitution. Those convicted had received jail sentences of up to 10 years.

Wow, these cops are really working hard. There would have to be 200 prostitutes every night in Rattlesnake alone yet they only found 20 cases of forced prostitution last year in the whole country?

Nice work boys, you deserve a promotion.

Look at the bright side of it Captain…

The article said that these “hard working cops” doubled their number of arrests from 10 in 2007 to 20 in 2008. A whopping 100% success rate!!!

Yeah… you bet,.. they deserve a promotion!!!!

ha! Your oil money at work.

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The general rule is that if you are dealing with numbers that low you can't use percentages.

"80 per cent of the victims having been forced into prostitution"

Just say 16 out of 20 dude.

I would venture a guess that a good percentage of the prostitute's "services" are utilized by local's as well... Perhaps a small reason for the slow pace of removing them?

Captain Australia wrote:ha! Your oil money at work.

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The general rule is that if you are dealing with numbers that low you can't use percentages.

"80 per cent of the victims having been forced into prostitution"

Just say 16 out of 20 dude.

Sixteen out of twenty still suggests a large polled figure. 'Nine out of ten cat owners don't care if their beloved wild animal sh*ts in someone else's garden...'. It doesn't suggest that only ten were asked, it suggests a fraction/percentage. Or am I wrong, I could be

By the way the girls in Rattlesnake (and Cyclone before), aren't they mostly just working for themselves? I think they are. They aren't the girls locked up in brothels.

Captain Australia wrote:

Tom Jones wrote:Al Ghafli said that the number of human trafficking cases in the UAE since 2008 was 20, up from 10 the previous year, 80 per cent of the victims having been forced into prostitution. Those convicted had received jail sentences of up to 10 years.

Wow, these cops are really working hard. There would have to be 200 prostitutes every night in Rattlesnake alone yet they only found 20 cases of forced prostitution last year in the whole country?

Nice work boys, you deserve a promotion.

They do Cap. As long as they filter the crappy ones and keep the classy.

We like classy don't we!?!