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Dubai of all places? Isn't that place just a rich person's playground? Aren't there women everywhere?
Turns out this greentext was 3 years before they made it legal for women to drive in 2018
Women in UAE have always been allowed to drive. It was made legal in 2018 in Saudi Arabia, which is a different country.
Are you sure they're different countries?
You can Google it if you don't trust me.
How can i trust google after all they've done
You don't need to trust Google directly, you can use Google to find a trusted source.
Or use Duckduckgo to find a trusted source. Or Kagi. Or Searx.
Absolutely, use whichever search engine you prefer. "Google it" was used as a colloquialism to mean "search for it, using a search engine" and was not a direct endorsement of Google.
I don't think that Dubai, or anywhere in the UAE, ever had a ban on women driving.
Are you thinking of Saudi Arabia? Different country.
I still wouldnt go there if you like not being in prison.
As a foreigner/tourist you have practically 0 chances of going to prison, unless you do something really stupid.
Source: Been to Dubai many times.
Thats the dumbest bullshit i have ever read on here. If you havent seen or heard anything fucked up, in or about Dubai, thats because you havent looked.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_Dubai
Homosexuality is illegal. The death penalty is one of the punishments for homosexuality. Kissing in some public places is illegal and can result in deportation.
These are just the first two sentences in the "Dubai Law" section, it just keeps going along similar fucked up lines tho.
Sharing a hotel room with the opposite sex is prohibited under Dubai's law unless married or closely related. There is to be no display of public affection.
The "Rape victims" subsection in the "womens rights" section is also just a nightmare.
And this doesnt even start talking about slave labour, human trafficing, censorship, political assassinations, etc.
Seriously, i wouldnt go to Dubai if you paid me for it and neither should anyone that values their own safety and general human rights.
As I said, respect the local laws and customs and nothing will happen to you. As proven by about 15 million annual tourists from all over the world.
You obviously don't have to visit if you disagree with the local customs, but to say that going there has any measurable chances of getting arrested is incorrect.
And regarding the law about sharing a room by a (heterosexual) premarital couple, it has been decriminalized in 2020, and rarely applied to foreigners in the first place.
Decriminalized in 2020. How progressive.
I didn't say it's progressive (although it's obviously progress), I was just pointing out that, besides the point, that info is outdated.
There are multiple stories of women being raped and then charged with having premarital sex, as if they had a say in the matter. Here's one example. The fact that's it's happened enough for an organization to be created to deal with it sounds fairly damning from where I stand. I can only assume those 15 million people don't find that to be reason enough to stay away.
Yes, crime in Dubai happens. Yes, they have unreasonable and archaic Sharia laws. Yes, awful situations, like women being jailed for being raped happen, according to some sources, possibly even several times a year. But here's the unintuitive thing, it's still statistically safe. Whether you like it or not, that's how statistics work.
Here's an example to help people visualize it better. Every year, on average, 10-20 planes crash, with 100s of deaths, which is terrible. But, every year, on average, there are about 40 million flights, which comes up to about 0.00004% crash rate percentage. Every time you get on a plane there's a chance you're going to die in a crash, cause crashes happen regularly, and yet, it's the safest method of transportation.
Now let's make a rough calculation for the rape cases for tourists. Let's be generous (because UAE definitely underreports these incidents) and assume it happens not just several, but 10 times annually. There are 15 million tourist visits annually. That is roughly... 0.00007% chance. Depending on what numbers you pick, that is about twice as likely as being in a plane crash.And to drive the final nail into the coffin, let's looks at some official numbers:
- Safe Cities Index 2021 Personal Security score: 67 (slightly above New York, San Francisco, to name a few), 35th safest city in the world.
- Numbeo Safety Index: 84.00 (Very high) (for comparison, New York has safety index of 50)
- Expat Insider Survey: Expats report their personal safety (93% vs. 83% globally) very positively.
In conclusion:
- UAE has archaic Sharia laws.
- If you are aware of the local laws and customs, and don't disobey them, you have very low probability of having any issues.
And if I don't go, I'm not lending support to a place with archaic laws and other abusive practices, even if I wouldn't be at risk if I went there. It's as simple as that.
that's still not Dubai, which happens to be a city
There are foreign women everywhere.