Full Coverage: Qatar

03/05/2007 Recognizing the need to invest in education to stimulate its own economic growth and development, Qatar is rapidly reforming its school system and improving teaching practices.

09/13/2006 Amnesty International has called on Russia, China, and Arab leaders to "work hard to get Sudan's consent for a UN peacekeeping force" before the peacekeepers currently in Darfur are forced to leave on September 30.

02/03/2006 DOHA, Qatar, Feb 3 (IPS) - Its foreign bureaus were bombed by U.S. warplanes, it is banned from reporting from four Middle East countries - and Al-Jazeera is only growing in popularity.

09/06/2005 Directors and assistant directors of state and private broadcasting corporations from 12 Arab countries started a one week training course on modern broadcasting management in Qatar’s capital Doha.

09/28/2004 Members of the International Telecommunications Union have met to approve
studies that will help developing countries create information societies. The meeting also took up issues that could be discussed by the World Telecommunication Development Conference scheduled in Qatar in March 2006.

07/21/2004 Canada's broadcast regulator has approved Qatar-based news channel al-Jazeera for the country's cable TV market. But the approval is twinned with censorship rules so stringent that the station won't likely be carried in this country, say television executives.

09/23/2003 A development organisation trains primary school teachers in Nepal to help improve teaching standards. The organisation focuses on for alternative teaching methods for better quality teaching.

05/27/2003 The first female minister in Qatar, Sheikha Ahmad Al-Mahmoud, took office as the Minister of Education. The appointment came after the ratification of the first Constitution in Qatar in April. She promised to work towards removing segregation in schools.

02/26/2003 An international media monitoring group is concerned about a court ruling in Qatar this week which confirmed a death sentence against Jordanian journalist Firas al-Majali on charges of espionage.

02/14/2003 The Saudi Arabian government's refusal to allow Qatar-based Arabic TV station Al-Jazeera to cover this week's annual Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca has prompted concern among media monitoring groups.

12/11/2002 Qatar seems to be leading the way on economic and political reform within the Arab world, says Shravanti Reddy, increasing its regional and international influence.

06/24/2002 A Scotland-based terrorism expert assesses the strength of Al Queda, following Sunday's announcement that Osama Bin Laden is alive and the network is planning further attacks on the United States.

06/24/2002 The world's most wanted terrorist suspect, Osama bin Laden, and his al-Qaeda network are alive and well and preparing more attacks, a spokesman for the group said in a statement aired on a Qatar-based satellite channel on Sunday.

04/23/2002 Monen Lähi-idän arabimaan kansalaiset vaativat yhä äänekkäämmin sotilaallisia toimia Israelia vastaan, mutta ajatus on mahdoton kyseisten maiden hallituksille. Syynä on asiantuntijoiden mukaan se, että ne ovat sekä sotilaallisesti että taloudellisesti Yhdysvaltain tiukassa otteessa.

01/07/2002 The World Development Movement analyses the outcomes of the WTO's 4th Ministerial meeting held in Doha this week, concluding that developing countries were pressured into accpetance and that that there is no commitment to "fundamental and radical reform" of the WTO.

01/07/2002 The Catholic Aid Agency CAFOD says the final declaration of the WTO Summit in Doha places a heavy negotiating burden on developing countries.

01/07/2002 At one stage, it looked as if the WTO meeting, held in Doha last week, would end without agreement. But a day over schedule, the 142 member states finally presented an agenda for further negotiations on lifting barriers to trade.

01/07/2002 The outcome of the Doha trade talks has been better than anybody expected according to the EU's Agriculture Commissioner Dr Franz Fischler after long hours of deliberation by Ministers attending the World Trade Organisation Meeting finally produced an agreement on Wednesday morning.

01/07/2002 Trade ministers from around the world gathered from 9 - 13 November in Doha for the crucially important 4th Ministerial meeting of the World Trade Organisation. OneWorld brings you portraits of some of the key commentators and their views on the meeting.

12/24/2001 The latest issue of the Corporate Europe Observer looks at the cost to the climate of getting the Kyoto Protocol ratified before the Rio+10 meeting next September. This is a 1.2MB .pdf file.