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Nutritional Information

1 Apr, 2009  2 Comments

is-nutrition-tableFat. We all hate it. We don’t like to hear that word unless someone says ‘Phat with a PH’. Although Qatar is becoming very health conscious and focusing on the environment, there doesn’t seem to be any word on whether Qatar will start enforcing nutritional information.

In the UK, it’s the law. All food must have nutritional information on it. Why should it be hidden? In Qatar some food has it, some doesn’t. The caesar sauce they give you at McDonalds for example.

Who else would find it handy to know the fat content and colories in food?

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Freedom of Expression

    Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which the Qatari Government is a signatory of states: Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any medias and regardless of any frontiers.

    The Emiri Decision Number 86 of the year 2007 on the establishment of the Doha Free Information Centre marked yet another step towards establishing a State of rights and freedom of speech. The decision stipulated that the Centre be a non-profit organization, headquartered in Doha City, and have the authority to establish other affiliated centres inside and outside Qatar. It is worth mentioning that His Highness the Emir issued a decision in 1998 annulling the ministry of information, giving birth to a new era of freedom of speech where censorship was removed from local media.