Her Highness Sheikha Moza bint Nasser speaking with Qatari schoolchildren at the Learning Labs, as part of WISE 2015. Picture: Aisha al-Sada/HHOPL
QNA/Doha
HH Sheikha Moza bint Nasser, Chairperson of Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development (QF), has stressed the need to tackle violence in the world with all possible means, starting with media, and called for treating victims not as numbers and statistics, but rather as human beings who should be sympathised with.
She was speaking on Thursday during a plenary session under the theme “Education, Violence and Armed Conflict – From Daunting Challenge to Effective Response”, organised by Education Above All at Qatar National Convention Centre as part of the seventh edition of the World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE).
HH Sheikha Moza expressed deep anger and outrage at violation of children’s right to education and the targeting of schools, learners and scholars, stressing the need to move quickly to prevent such acts.
She called for finding a cure for violence while stressing the principles of accountability, punishment and reparation, noting that the global community might be not interested in questioning culprits, especially if they were from powerful countries.
HH Sheikha Moza added that international laws, and laws on human, children’s and women’s rights will not be implemented unless the principle of accountability and punishment is to be established, noting that the international society must be more practical even if it imposes financial reparations on offenders so as to deter them even though this would be the least way to achieve justice.
