Human Rights Controversies
In early 2011, over 120 international artists urged a boycott of the museum, citing reports of abuses of foreign construction workers, including the arbitrary withholding of wages, unsafe working conditions and failure of companies to pay recruitment fees to laborers. Additional controversy has arisen from the international human rights community and artistic community over Abu Dhabi's and the UAE's longstanding policy of jailing and deporting resident HIV sufferers, most of whom contracted the virus in the UAE, with a lifetime ban from ever being able to return to the country.
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