"India should demand that the U.A.E. adopt the full standards of the International Labour Organisation. While the U.A.E. has adopted some standards, it ignores some of the most important criteria of the ILO’s Declaration of Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work, including the freedom of association and the right to collective bargaining. After a protest by construction workers in Abu Dhabi in February 2007, the Ministry of Labour quietly expelled 14 of the “instigators.” Workers should not be criminalised for demanding basic rights." (thanks Maryam)