Links to UAE /GCC government portals and articles on issues of interest to public relations practitioners

Information on the UAE media and broadcasting landscape: www.uae.gov.ae/Government/media.htm

Official portal of the Abu Dhabi Executive Authority - gsec.abudhabi.ae/

Official portal of the Dubai Govermment : www.dubai.ae

Official website of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum:  www.sheikhmohammed.com

Dubai Press Club: www.dpc.org.ae/index.cfm/fuseaction/home.homepage

UAE Journalist's Association: www.uaejournal.org.ae/

February 2009: Permanent Regional Journalism Ethics Body to be launched
A permanent committee dedicated to journalism ethics in the Middle East is expected to be launched as part of a programme to encourage higher standards within the region’s media. The committee, led by the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), would be based in Bahrain.

The voluntary programme is expected to be adopted by leading media organizations in the region. The committee could then draw attention to organizations that were not meeting the standards set out in areas including ethics, objectivity and accountability. The UAE Journalists’ Association, which hosted a two-day IFJ conference in Dubai, welcomed the ethics committee and said it could “form a future framework controlling this profession and all its professionals in a way that surpasses the power of laws, which depend on penalties and compulsory limitations”.