ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER Home | 2 Business | 14 Sport | 22 WCMC-Q lecture US Federal Lekhwiya turn highlights risks Reserve holds to QSL matches of dangerous rate at zero, cites after ACL driving. China worries. heartbreak. FRIDAY 18 SEPTEMBER 2015 • 4 Dhul-Hijja 1436 • Volume 20 Number 6557 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Emir reviews NHRC calls for Al Aqsa issue soft stance with Erdogan DOHA: Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani last evening held telephone talks with Turkish President on workers Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Talks focused on repeated Israeli aggression and flagrant Report submitted to Interior Ministry violations in the Old City of Jerusalem aiming to imple- DOHA: Don’t catch workers that they have failed to get ID ment Israeli plans to divide who do not have identity (ID) cards issued for their workers, Al Aqsa Mosque and Israeli cards or valid ID cards due to such workers should be allowed to attacks and provocations the fault of their employers, change their sponsorship, accord- against worshippers. Qatar’s National Human Rights ing to the rights panel. The Emir and Erdogan Committee (NHRC) has urged The NHRC has also urged the agreed on the need to inten- the Ministry of Interior. ministry to set up a human rights sify efforts to take a unified The rights body has also office at Hamad International stance to support and protect A truck carrying emergency aid for the war-hit people in Yemen ready for dispatch in Doha yesterday. requested the Interior Ministry to Airport (HIA) to help workers the rights of the Palestinian transfer the sponsorship of work- who have freshly arrived and may people and urged the interna- ers who are barred from work or be facing some complications and tional community to end the traveling overseas due to financial monitor their situation. brutal Israeli aggression on Al debt. “Also, please allow victims The NHRC, in its recommen- Qatar to send five trucks of Aqsa. QNA of the (illegal) visa trade and dations made to the Ministry of employees of blacklisted compa- Labour and Social Affairs, has on nies to change their sponsorship,” the other hand, asked it to enforce the NHRC has said. the clause of the labour law which aid to war-torn Yemen today In a set of recommendations asks private companies to set up Several lawyers made to the interior ministry joint committees of workers and DOHA: Qatar will today dis- accompanying the consignment. over half the population lacked in its 2014 report on the human owners to amicably settle worker- patch five trucks of emergency The aid will be distributed in access to safe drinking water, and moved to list of rights situation in the country, the employer disputes and work for aid to the war-torn areas in areas set free from Houthi rebels. Yemen’s child malnutrition rates NHRC said the detention centre employees’ welfare. Yemen. Islamic Dawah Organisation will ranked among the world’s worst. must be expanded and healthcare The NHRC has also urged the The aid was collected through coordinate with two charitable Hammad Abdul Khader Al non-practitioners facilities must be provided there. labor ministry to open a unit at a week long humanitarian cam- organisations, Al Wafa and Al Shaikh, director of the the DOHA: On their request, several Deportation centre is where Hamad International Airport paign in Qatar coordinated by the Firdous in distributing the aid. Organisation’s Doha office, lawyers were yesterday moved foreign workers being repatriated (HIA) to look into woes a newly- Doha office of the Islamic Dawah The materials will go to support appreciated the support from onto the list of non-practitioners, home are detained. The NHRC arrived worker might be facing. Organisation. the displaced people in Yemen, the Qatari donors saying they while two lawyers were registered has also urged the ministry to To the Supreme Judicial Council The consignment contains food widows, orphans and the needy. are always in the forefront to to practise in the country’s high- regularise the visa status of “free the NHRC has said in its sugges- items including rice and sugar Some 21 million people — over support needy people all over est court, the Court of Cassation. and loose workers” (workers like tions to provide more translators and dates, clothes, school bags, 80 percent of Yemen’s popula- the world. Qatar News Agency reported masons, carpenters, plumbers and in courts. The NHRC said that among other items. tion — require immediate help, He said hospitals in Yemen that the lawyers’ Admission electricians, among others, who its recommendations are aimed The campaign launched six according to the United Nations, are in dire need of medicines Committee at the Ministry of are not employed by any company at enhancing the human rights days ago evoked a tremendous which warns that the country is and equipment and hoped that Justice met yesterday and took the although sponsored by them and situation in Qatar and support response from philanthropists in on the brink of famine. another consignment would above decisions. The meet was pre- are available for freelance work). the organisations working in this Qatar, Al Sharq reported, quot- More than a million have been be sent to Yemen from Qatar sided over by the Minister of Justice, And raids should be conducted field on regional and international ing Ahmed Saleh, coordinator displaced by months of violence. carrying medicines. H E Dr Hassan Lahdan Saqr Al on companies and if it is found levels. THE PENINSULA of the campaign, who will be Even before the conflict began, THE PENINSULA Mohannadi. If a lawyer wants to stop legal practice for a brief or long period or for good, he requests the above Al Sadd, Umm Salal draw committee to put him on the list of non-practitioners. However, Last bid to kill according to famous lawyer, Yusuf Qatar to host World Al Zaman, the lawyer can later on, if he so decides, can be back on the Iran nuclear list of practitioners. Asked what happens to the cases deal blocked Tourism Day 2017 handled by a lawyer who dies, Al Zaman said the above committee DOHA: Qatar has won the Nations Millennium Development transfers his cases to another law in US Senate right to host World Tourism Goals (MDGs) and Sustainable firm and asks that law firm to dis- Day (WTD) 2017 celebrations, Development Goals (SDGs) and solve the legal firm of the deceased WASHINGTON: US Senate which will be held under the to highlight the tourism sector’s lawyer in collaboration with the Democrats blocked legislation theme, ‘Sustainable Tourism – contribution to achieving them. latter’s family. THE PENINSULA meant to kill the Iran nuclear a Tool for Development’. Speaking at the General deal for a third time yesterday, The announcement was made Assembly, QTA Director of securing perhaps the greatest following a vote of the 21st International Cooperation Saif ‘Avoid photos of foreign policy of President Barack UNWTO General Assembly in Al Kuwari, said, “Qatar’s tourism Obama and clearing the way for Medellin, Colombia. sector is among the fastest grow- mishap victims’ the agreement’s implementation. Celebrated annually on ing globally. Our National Tourism DOHA: A prominent lawyer By a vote of 56-42, the September 27, World Tourism Sector Strategy outlines an ambi- said yesterday that the Traffic Republican-majority Senate fell Day is the biggest international tious path of development through Department had urged people short of the 60 votes needed in the event in tourism. Its purpose is 2030. We believe that holding the to take photographs of vehi- 100-member chamber to advance to foster awareness among the official World Tourism Day 2017 cles involved in accidents and the legislation as all but four of global community of the impor- celebrations in Qatar will provide send them to Metrash2 in such Obama’s fellow Democrats backed tance of tourism and its social, a timely opportunity to take stock a way that only the vehicle and the nuclear pact announced in July. cultural, political and economic of the sector’s achievements and its number plate are shown and With no more Senate votes value. The event, which is held in provide us with a new catalyst for not people — the victims — as planned this week, the result Al Sadd captain Xavi Hernandez vies for the ball against Umm Salal’s a different continent each year, all that is yet to come.” that would breach their privacy. ensured that Congress will not Andranik Timotian during their Qatar Stars League (QSL) match at seeks to address the global chal- Continued on page 4 Continued on page 4 pass a resolution of disapproval that Al Sadd Stadium in Doha yesterday. The match ended in a 2-2 draw. lenges outlined in the United THE PENINSULA THE PENINSULA would have crippled the agreement See also page 22 BAHER AMIN by eliminating Obama’s ability to waive many US sanctions. A disapproval resolution would have had to pass both the Senate and House of Representatives by yesterday, and survive Obama’s Airlines should compensate for delays, cancellations: Court veto, to be enacted. The Senate’s Republican majority leader, Mitch BRUSSELS: Airlines have to extraordinary circumstances. on which defects might arise event is inherent in the normal errors to reject compensation McConnell, held three votes trying pay passengers compensation Under EU law, air carriers do once the equipment reached a exercise of an air carrier’s activ- claims. to advance the disapproval meas- when flights are cancelled or not have to pay compensation if certain age.