The UAE is proactively collaborating with the international community to better safeguard labor rights and protect foreign workers from exploitation.
The UAE has ratified nine ILO conventions related to protecting the fundamental rights of foreign workers, and is also an active member of the Arab Labor Organization. From 2012-2018, the UAE served on the United Nations Human Rights Council.
On October 14, the UAE won membership on the UN Human Rights Council for the 2022-2024 term during elections that took place among members of the United Nations General Assembly. The UAE looks forward to continuing its efforts to promote and protect human rights on national, regional, and international levels.
The UAE has negotiated bilateral labor agreements with the governments of nations supplying large numbers of laborers to the UAE economy including agreements with India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, China and the Philippines. Labor-source nations received approximately $45 billion in annual remittances from the UAE in 2019.
The UAE hosts several international forums as part of its ongoing commitment to improve working conditions within the UAE and raise public awareness around labor rights, including the Abu Dhabi Dialogue, an ongoing platform in conjunction with the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the Global Forum on Migration and Development (GFMD).
The Dialogue brings together ministerial-level leadership from both labor-source and labor-receiving nations and aims to create a regional framework for regulating labor rights and migration.
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