Khalifa Bin Zayed concerns a legislation setting up Abu Dhabi Group Legal Consciousness Centre

Abu Dhab: President His Highness Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, in his potential as Ruler of Abu Dhabi Emirate, has issued the law variety 22 of 2020, setting up Abu Dhabi Local community Lawful Awareness Centre, affiliated with the Abu Dhabi Judiciary Office.

The centre will elevate recognition of potential hazards linked with inappropriate behaviour that violates the values and ideas of the UAE culture, and how to answer to, stop and mitigate its impression.

It will also observe inappropriate conduct together with online and though making use of social media platforms or e-gaming.

The new Abu Dhabi Local community Lawful Awareness Centre, acknowledged as ‘Masouliya’, indicating ‘responsibility’ in English, will operate to reduce anti-social behaviour these kinds of as bullying, defamation, inciting violence and online or gaming dependancy. A initial-of-its-type in the region, the centre will focus on educating youth, dad and mom and guardians on the destructive impacts, which include authorized effects, of anti-social behaviour, and motivate individual accountability.

It will organise group awareness things to do and seminars, as perfectly as conferences with family members, and produce ground breaking written content to achieve youth on the net to assistance educate them on the responsible use of digital platforms and gaming. The centre will be overseen by the Abu Dhabi Judicial Department and will assistance strengthen protection, safety, social security and spouse and children ties.

Yousef Saeed Al Abery, Undersecretary of the Abu Dhabi Judicial Department, explained: “The centre will function as a preventive instrument, with its best priority to make sure consciousness among youth, mother and father and guardians about the lawful implications of anti-social or irresponsible behaviour, notably on social media platforms and when gaming.”

Establishing the centre follows updates to the digital justice framework, which aims to keep an eye on the use of social media platforms and digital gaming to protect against inappropriate behaviour that violates community values and ideas, incites defamation, animosity or violence, or qualified prospects to on the internet or gaming habit. The centre will use principles of ‘preventive justice’, thought of a crucial pillar of sustainable social steadiness, by concentrating on rising awareness of the regulation, and boosting moral and patriotic values, specially amid youth.