United Arab Emirates
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Introduction - United Arab Emirates: | Location - United Arab Emirates: | People - United Arab Emirates: | Government - United Arab Emirates: | Economy - United Arab Emirates: | Communications - United Arab Emirates: | Transportation - United Arab Emirates: | Military - United Arab Emirates: | Military branches | Army, Navy (includes Marines and Coast Guard), Air and Air Defense Force, paramilitary forces (includes Federal Police Force) | | Military service age and obligation | 18 years of age (est.); no conscription (2001) | | Manpower available for military service | males age 18-49: 653,181
females age 18-49: 497,394 (includes non-nationals; 2005 est.) | | Manpower fit for military service | males age 18-49: 526,671
females age 18-49: 419,975 (2005 est.) | | Manpower reaching military service age annually | males: 30,706
females age 18-49: 29,617 (2005 est.) | | Military expenditures percent of gdp | 3.1% (2005 est.) | | Trafficking in persons | current situation: the United Arab Emirates is a destination country for men, women, and children trafficked from South and East Asia, Eastern Europe, Africa, and the Middle East for involuntary servitude and for sexual exploitation; an estimated 10,000 women from sub-Saharan Africa, Eastern Europe, South and East Asia, Iraq, Iran, and Morocco may be victims of sex trafficking in the UAE; women also migrate from Africa, and South and Southeast Asia to work as domestic servants, but may have their passports confiscated, be denied permission to leave the place of employment in the home, or face sexual or physical abuse by their employers; men from South Asia come to the UAE to work in the construction industry, but may be subjected to conditions of involuntary servitude as they are coerced to pay off recruitment and travel costs, sometimes having their wages denied for months at a time; victims of child camel jockey trafficking may still remain in the UAE, despite a July 2005 law banning the practice; while all identified victims were repatriated at the governments expense to their home countries, questions persist as to the effectiveness of the ban and the true number of victims
tier rating: Tier 2 Watch List - UAE is placed on the Tier 2 Watch List for its failure to show increased efforts to combat trafficking in 2005, particularly in its efforts to address the large-scale trafficking of foreign girls and women for commercial sexual exploitation | | Disputes international | boundary agreement was signed and ratified with Oman in 2003 for entire border, including Omans Musandam Peninsula and Al Madhah enclaves, but contents of the agreement and detailed maps showing the alignment have not been published; Iran and UAE dispute Tunb Islands and Abu Musa Island, which Iran occupies | |
This page was last updated on 16 September, 2007 Source: CIA >>> |