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Qatar has called for effective national and international measures to remove obstacles facing girls’ and women’s right to education. |
This came during a speech delivered by Noor Ibrahim al-Sada, the second secretary at the Permanent Mission of Qatar to the UN , Geneva, during a general discussion on girls’ and women’s right to education at the 58th session of the Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW).
In her keynote speech, she said that although the girls’ and women’s right to education is stated in a set of international and regional conventions on human rights, as stipulated in articles 10 of CEDAW convention, there are still many obstacles to be removed to provide this right , such as poverty, negative stereotyping of women and lack of security in some areas.
Noor Ibrahim al-Sada reviewed measures that can be adopted at the international and national level to ensure full compliance with the right of girls and women to education.
At the national level, the senior Qatari official proposed legislation to ensure girls’ and women’s right to education without discrimination, including admission requirements and enabling them to enjoy all available advantages of education, free and compulsory primary education for girls and women without discrimination.
She called for strategies and plans aimed at providing gender-quality education with special consideration for the education of girls and women in extraordinary circumstances such as war, natural disasters.
At the international level, she said that initiatives and global partnerships should be made to attract support for the provision of the right to education in developing countries, which suffer from exceptional circumstances.
In this regard, Noor Ibrahim al-Sada referred to the initiative of HH Sheikha Moza bint Nasser, Chairperson of Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development (QF), who launched the Educate A Child (EAC) initiative aimed at providing good education for millions of children around the world, saying that so far 2mn children have benefited from this initiative , including a large proportion of girls.
