November 27, 2020
The United Arab Emirates has changed its laws to allow unmarried couples to cohabitate, to loosen alcohol restrictions, to decriminalize attempted suicide, to permit citizens to write their own wills without basing inheritance on Sharia law and to treat “honor killings” as ordinary murder. The new laws take effect immediately. The government said the goal was to improve the country’s economic and social standing and to “consolidate the UAE’s principles of tolerance.”
