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HE Sheikha Aliaa Ahmed bin Saif al-Thani, Qatar’s permanent representative to the UN Geneva headquarters, has presented the 2012 report of the social forum of the Human Rights Council.
In her capacity as chairperson and rapporteur of the forum’s 2012 session, Sheikha Aliaa said it was a “unique space for interactional dialogue between the UN human rights mechanisms and those interested with a view to tackling causes related to national and international environment to enhance the enjoyment of human rights by everyone”.
Elaborating, Sheikha Aliaa said the social forum, held on October 1-3 last year, as per the Human Rights Council’s resolution No19/24, had discussed issues such as development, global governance in an era of multiple challenges and social transformation, enhancing measures for achieving partnership development and democratic rule, including the role of civil society and social movements on the popular, local and national levels.
She added that the forum’s deliberations focused on the need to strengthen global environment conducive to development through the international financial system, stressing, meantime, the need to support sustainable, comprehensive and just economic growth and a sustainable development and eradicate hunger and poverty in the developing countries to be able to achieve consolidated mobilisation of all sources of funding for development.
She showcased that the social forum of 2012 had witnessed the participation of nearly 200 people, and more than 35 speakers took part in nine panel discussions and a roundtable discussion on various topics related to development, centring on human rights and globalisation.
Participants at the forum, she said, had presented “tangible proposals” pertaining to the development plan beyond 2015 and offered recommendations for the integration of the right to development and human rights. Another recommendation for the need to involve women in the decision-making process at all levels that affected their lives, including development policies in the post-war and conflict, was also presented.
Sheikha Aliaa said the participants who attended the social forum workshops in 2012 called for the promotion of access to basic resources, education, labour, media, justice and small loans, and sustainable livelihoods and support networks and access more generally to a developmental and comprehensive approach based on human rights.