Dubai in the NYT. Again.
When the US put the UAE on it's condemned list for Human Trafficking and Human Rights back in 2002 because of the child camel jockeys, the UAE responded with a series of infomercials in the local newspapers (which aren't allowed to run anything except infomercials about local news). This worked for one year, until the US Human Trafficking scouts actually went to see a camel race, whereupon they realized that the local newspapers were not altogether reliable when it came to reporting local news.
Now that the child camel jockeys have been retired, the main US concern is over workers' rights. The UAE authorities have responded with the usual infomercials in the local newspapers, but the Dubai authorities feared that limiting the series to the local papers would not have the requisite effect, so they managed to get an infomercial in The New York Times.
As with the case of the child camel jockeys, the infomercial says that all the former abuses are being effectively addressed. The article says there is a new labour minister who has both the authority and the inclination to enforce international standards of workers' rights.
And since the news article is in The New York Times, it should have some impact on next year's reports by the US State Department.
Now that the child camel jockeys have been retired, the main US concern is over workers' rights. The UAE authorities have responded with the usual infomercials in the local newspapers, but the Dubai authorities feared that limiting the series to the local papers would not have the requisite effect, so they managed to get an infomercial in The New York Times.
As with the case of the child camel jockeys, the infomercial says that all the former abuses are being effectively addressed. The article says there is a new labour minister who has both the authority and the inclination to enforce international standards of workers' rights.
And since the news article is in The New York Times, it should have some impact on next year's reports by the US State Department.
posted by Dubai@Random at 9:09 pm
3 Comments:
That might depend on who is at the State Department - Republicans hate the New York Times. It's a "Liberal" news establishment and can't be trusted. I've been disgruntled about the U.S. news for a while. They're just a bunch of mouthpieces for the Bush administration and I would not doubt that this has something to do with the arms deal going on now. And since I don't get Lou Dobbs on CNN International anymore (something the UAE requested after he went after the Dubai Ports Deal), it's hard to tell what the xenophobic, jingoist reactionaries think of all of this.
vagabondblogger: good point. While 'true Americans' don't read the NYT, it still has more cachet in the US than the UAE newspapers.
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