How to Publicly Humiliate Your Own Staff!
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Here is another example of the freedoms you get to experience in Dubai !! The tourists just love to watch these kidnapped, abused children ride the camels ... maybe one will fall off and get trampled, and we can take pictures !! This place is a joke, and anyone who has lived here for any length of time knows it. Enjoy fantasyland soompak !!
Camel jockeys sent home
Sunday, 07 August 2005
The UAE will soon repatriate more than 100 Bangladeshi children who used to work as camel jockeys, a Dhaka-based paper said. A team partly funded by UNICEF left on Friday for the UAE to bring the children back, reported the New Age daily.
Meanwhile, The Telegraph daily of London reported yesterday that another 60 to 100 children are expected to return to Pakistan this coming week. "In total, the UAE has agreed to send back more than 3,000 known child jockeys," said the newspaper.
In July, a group of 86 Pakistani children, who worked as camel jockeys here, returned home. The group was the second batch of camel racers repatriated to their country - the Child Welfare Bureau in Lahore, Pakistan, received 22 children in June. The UAE is the first country in the region to ban the use of underage children as camel jockeys.
Camel jockeys sent home
Sunday, 07 August 2005
The UAE will soon repatriate more than 100 Bangladeshi children who used to work as camel jockeys, a Dhaka-based paper said. A team partly funded by UNICEF left on Friday for the UAE to bring the children back, reported the New Age daily.
Meanwhile, The Telegraph daily of London reported yesterday that another 60 to 100 children are expected to return to Pakistan this coming week. "In total, the UAE has agreed to send back more than 3,000 known child jockeys," said the newspaper.
In July, a group of 86 Pakistani children, who worked as camel jockeys here, returned home. The group was the second batch of camel racers repatriated to their country - the Child Welfare Bureau in Lahore, Pakistan, received 22 children in June. The UAE is the first country in the region to ban the use of underage children as camel jockeys.
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Hey Soompak
I dont think the Australian Government agree with you either.... Mind you a drive in your car down Sheik Zied Road or in the Back seat of a Dubai Taxi could provide just as much excitement...
This Advice is current for Sunday, 07 August 2005.
The Advice was issued on Friday, 05 August 2005, 16:38:53, AEST.
This advice has been reviewed and reissued. It contains new information on safety and security. The overall level of the advice has not changed.
Australians in the United Arab Emirates are advised to exercise a high degree of caution. We continue to receive reports that terrorists are planning attacks against Western interests in the region, including in the United Arab Emirates. Commercial and public areas frequented by foreigners are possible terrorist targets.
Safety and Security
http://www.smartraveller.gov.au/zw-c..._Arab_Emirates
I dont think the Australian Government agree with you either.... Mind you a drive in your car down Sheik Zied Road or in the Back seat of a Dubai Taxi could provide just as much excitement...
This Advice is current for Sunday, 07 August 2005.
The Advice was issued on Friday, 05 August 2005, 16:38:53, AEST.
This advice has been reviewed and reissued. It contains new information on safety and security. The overall level of the advice has not changed.
Australians in the United Arab Emirates are advised to exercise a high degree of caution. We continue to receive reports that terrorists are planning attacks against Western interests in the region, including in the United Arab Emirates. Commercial and public areas frequented by foreigners are possible terrorist targets.
Safety and Security
http://www.smartraveller.gov.au/zw-c..._Arab_Emirates
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Uplock;
I appreciate that it is safer to err on the side of caution.
I somehow feel that your post only helps to sustantiate the claims that go on endlessly about terrorism and the likes.
You are more at risk of being shot at or mugged and maimed in the process in the streets of London, New York or Sydney; and while I agree that an impression of relative safety prevails while seated in the back of a taxi, if anything is of concern here it is the subject of the initial post and not an inflamation of an already uncomfortable situation flamed by these half hazard warnings.
So bear with everyone and if there is reason to believe that we need to highten the state of alert, considering it is an issue of utmost importance , then please start a topic and give it the importance it deserves! Muddled between these lines makes your post look like an unecessary utter of alarm amongst the anguish everyone shares over ones quality of life and while the first is unconditional the second one isn't.
Ratpoison
The dubai zoo is moving not sure about the zoo in dubai though!
The animals are between a rock and a hard space, I doubt anyone would dare move and on the other hand what we moan about often serves us and the police here are on top of the ball, trust me.
Happy landings!
I appreciate that it is safer to err on the side of caution.
I somehow feel that your post only helps to sustantiate the claims that go on endlessly about terrorism and the likes.
You are more at risk of being shot at or mugged and maimed in the process in the streets of London, New York or Sydney; and while I agree that an impression of relative safety prevails while seated in the back of a taxi, if anything is of concern here it is the subject of the initial post and not an inflamation of an already uncomfortable situation flamed by these half hazard warnings.
So bear with everyone and if there is reason to believe that we need to highten the state of alert, considering it is an issue of utmost importance , then please start a topic and give it the importance it deserves! Muddled between these lines makes your post look like an unecessary utter of alarm amongst the anguish everyone shares over ones quality of life and while the first is unconditional the second one isn't.
Ratpoison
The dubai zoo is moving not sure about the zoo in dubai though!
The animals are between a rock and a hard space, I doubt anyone would dare move and on the other hand what we moan about often serves us and the police here are on top of the ball, trust me.
Happy landings!
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What a bunch of whingers, try some of the slightly more radical Muslim countries and you will learn that Dubai by comparison is an oasis of tolerance comfort and the good life.
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A few rules to rmember!
When in the Gulf Always remember:
Rule number 1: Mohammed is always right.
Rule number 2: When unsure, always refer to rule number 1.
That should explain everything.
Rule number 1: Mohammed is always right.
Rule number 2: When unsure, always refer to rule number 1.
That should explain everything.
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Methinks you've rather missed the point Peterbrat. The responses are in relation to the absurd statement from Soompak that 'Dubai is known to all considers to be the most modern and free city in the world' (?..sic).
We are all well aware of the despotic, totalitarian regimes and worse human rights abuses elsewhere in the region, but the point being made is that Dubai is hardly a place of social or political liberty.
We are all well aware of the despotic, totalitarian regimes and worse human rights abuses elsewhere in the region, but the point being made is that Dubai is hardly a place of social or political liberty.
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Ratpoison you are soooo right: Always been a 3rd (I would even say 4th) world country, still is and will ever be a 3rd/4th world country: Managers, banks, officials, traffic, radio... you name it: No service, no clues, no improvement. Pity, but true. But, as our beloved TCK said: "It´s a fun place to live!"
Keep discovering!
Been here now for 3 years and already lookin´around for better livin´(without da sh... night flights to India...)
Keep discovering!
Been here now for 3 years and already lookin´around for better livin´(without da sh... night flights to India...)
