Doha hosts a seminar on human rights on Islam
Regional-Qatar, Politics, 1/7/2004

A seminar was opened on Monday in Doha under the title of "Human rights in Islam." A topic which is debated for the first time in Qatar which recently founded a human rights committee.

The higher representative for the UNHCR, Ahmad Madani, who takes part in the seminar underlined the importance UNHCR pins on developing human rights in the Arab states.

For his part, the chairman of the Shoura council in Qatar, Muhammad Bin Mubarak al-Khuleifi, said in a speech he had delivered on the importance given by Qatar to human rights.

In the first work session, four work papers were debated. The first was given by Youssef Muhammad Obeidan, the political sciences teacher at Qatar university that dealt with political human rights. Ahmad Abu al-Wafa, the law teacher and the secretary of the law faculty at Cairo university talked in the second work paper about social rights.

Sheikha Hessa Bint Khaleifa Bin Ahmad al-Thani, the special rapparteur for disabled at the UN, presented the third paper which noted the difficult circumstances people of special needs face that hinder their integration in society.

For his part, Muhammad Mustafa Younis, the international law professor at Qatar university read the fourth paper on guarantees for protecting human rights in cases of emergency, and criterion governing these conditions.

In April 2003, Qatar adopted a constitution through general referendum. It is the first constitution since the independence of the country in 1971. The constitution states to found a Shoura council, with two thirds of its 46 members elected directly by general voting during elections that might be held this year.

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