Not something that directly concerns me, but I'm personally more worried about restrictions on freedom of speech, but regardless not somewhere I'd be willing to live (I currently do live in Switzerland).
These laws are also pretty much never enforced in UAE, as far as I understand.
https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/united-arab-emirate...
They are never enforced, until you become a target, then you're arrested and charged with a list violations.
I mean, we do this too, to some degree. But this is naive.
This one is better: a woman in UAE went to the doctor(gynecologist) and ended up in jail because doctor found out she is pregnant but not married.
In many American states a raped woman has to carry her rapist off spring to term
In America black people are significantly over represented in jails, poverty, illiteracy, single parent families.
I’m sure the 5 largest western democracies have similar issues
Formally documented de jure discrimination is hardly the only available approach. For example, the term "grandfather clause" stems from Southern states applying severe voter restrictions (poll taxes, literacy tests, etc.) but exempting anyone whose ancestors had the right to vote on a particular pre-Civil War date.
Functionally? Permitted poor/uneducated whites but not blacks to vote without ever mentioning a race in the law.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guinn_v._United_States
"No person shall be registered as an elector of this state or be allowed to vote in any election held herein, unless he be able to read and write any section of the Constitution of the state of Oklahoma; but no person who was, on January 1, 1866, or any time prior thereto, entitled to vote under any form of government, or who at that time resided in some foreign nation, and no lineal descendant of such person, shall be denied the right to register and vote because of his inability to so read and write sections of such Constitution."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gang_rape has some more examples.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_of_Alexandre_Robert
A number of particularly nasty elements to the response—including that the authorities knew that one of the rapists carried HIV, and had previously segregated him in custody to prevent him spreading the virus to other prisoners, but they fabricated medical tests to the contrary and lied to the boy’s family.
