His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai has passed a new child protection law. The new Child Rights law, is also known as Wadeema’s Law, after the 8 year old Emirati girl tortured to death in 2012 by her father and another person.
The law has 23 new clauses and "is designed to protect children from birth to puberty from a variety of forms of abuse, including physical, verbal and psychological abuse.”
The new clauses include parents not being allowed to take children into places where smoking is permitted and children not being allowed in venues that are classed as adult entertainment, such as cinemas showing films with an age rating older than they are. Also children between the age of 15 and 18 years old are permitted to work, however they must have government approval as well as written consent form their parents.