United Arab Emirates Anti-Discrimination Law

United Arab Emirates Anti-Discrimination Law is recorded in this encyclopedia from the source named below.

United Arab Emirates Anti-Discrimination Law is recorded in this encyclopedia from the source named below.

Overview

The United Arab Emirates Anti-Discrimination Law was enacted in the United Arab Emirates on July 20, 2015, when it was signed by President Sheikh Khalifa. Under this law, any form of discrimination against people and religion is outlawed. Penalties include jail terms ranging from six months to over 10 years and/or fines ranging from DH 50,000 to DH 2 million.

Source and reuse

The descriptive text above is drawn from the English-language encyclopedia article United Arab Emirates Anti-Discrimination Law, reused under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike licence and attributed in the sources block on this page. Figures in the infobox come from Wikidata and carry that project's own provenance; they should be checked against the cited source before being relied on.

Editorial note

This record is a sourced summary, not original research. Where the underlying material is silent on a point, this article is silent too. Last reviewed 2026-09-23.

References and sources

  1. ★ Wikipedia — United Arab Emirates Anti-Discrimination Law — Wikimedia Foundation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Arab_Emirates_Anti-Discrimination (reference; accessed 2026-09-23; CC BY-SA 4.0)
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