Qatar said yesterday that it was keen on supporting the Human Rights Council’s efforts both in the region and internationally.
This came during the speech of deputy permanent representative at the Permanent Mission of Qatar to the United Nations Office in Geneva, Muhannad al-Hammadi.
The speech was part of the 32nd session of the Human Rights Council, which takes place from June 13 to July1.
Al-Hammadi pointed out that Qatar had hosted the Asia Regional Forum for Business and Human Rights out of the leadership’s commitment to promoting human rights in April this year. The forum saw 60 countries participate through 400 representatives.
The Qatari officials called on those taking part of the 32nd session of the Human Rights Council to benefit from the outcomes of the Asia Regional Forum in preparing for the fifth edition of the Forum on Business and Human Rights.
Meanwhile, Qatar has called for benefiting from digital technology in providing comprehensive, fair and high-quality education for all without discrimination, Noor Ibrahim al-Sada, the second secretary at the permanent mission of Qatar to the UN in Geneva, made the call as she spoke during the third item of the interactive dialogue with the special rapporteur on the right to education within the 32nd session of the Human Rights Council.
As science and information technology make huge progress, al-Sada said that Qatar had been employing technology to serve the educational process, adding that the Ministry of Education and Higher Education had adopted the e-learning strategy in 2011 in order to provide a modern technological environment that serves the educational process in an
innovative way.
She added that the ministry launched an e-learning programme, an initiative that aimed to develop the educational system and offer electronic services based on integrated digital technology so as to improve the quality of
education and learning.
In order to find innovative solutions for challenges facing educational at the global level, the Qatari diplomat added, HH Sheikha Moza bint Nasser, Unesco special envoy for basic and higher education and chairperson of Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development, launched in 2009 an international initiative to hold an annual conference on innovation in education, which was called World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE).
Al-Sada said the conference’s annual summit and year-round initiatives make it an international platform for creating innovative ideas and solutions that help communities in overcoming challenges through education.
She described   the conference as a global reference for modern education systems that could fill the gap between currently implemented systems and those required to meet
future demands.