On 7 November 2020, the UAE government announced wide-sweeping reforms to the country’s personal status laws, civil transactions, the penal code and criminal procedural laws.
The changes include, among other things, increased flexibility for such things as divorce and inheritance to accommodate customs and laws of the more than 200 nationalities that call the UAE home, decriminalization of alcohol consumption without a license and the elimination of leniency for honour killings.
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