The Human Rights Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs organised a workshop on the Universal Periodic Review on Human Rights in Qatar, in co-operation with the regional office for the Middle East and North Africa of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), and the UN Human Rights Training and Documentation Centre.
The three-day workshop was opened by HE the Director of the Human Rights Department Dr Turki bin Abdulla al-Mahmoud. The workshop aims to introduce the participants to the procedures of Universal Periodic Review and the stages of preparing the national report.
The workshop will prepare and discuss the report before the working group of the Board of Human Rights, and a number of representatives of ministries concerned with preparing the fourth report of the State on the Universal Periodic Review Mechanism before the Board of Human rights.
This workshop comes in compliance with the recommendations of the UN mechanisms related to training, awareness-raising, and capacity-building of the participants from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and other government ministries. The workshop reflects the continuous and fruitful co-operation between the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the OHCHR by holding these training programmes and workshops and with the participation of government sectors to raise awareness on issues related to the protection and promotion of human rights.
The Cabinet in its 16th regular meeting for 2023 held on May 3, 2023, decided to re-structure the National Committee to prepare and discuss the national report before the working group of the Board of Human Rights Council under the chairmanship of HE the Minister of State for International Cooperation at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and with the membership of several government agencies in the country.
