Educational experts during the event organised by the Qatar National Commission for Education, Culture and Science as part of the right to education campaign.
The Qatar National Commission for Education, Culture and Science, in cooperation with the Shafallah Center for Persons with Disabilities, has organised an awareness lecture on the right to education campaign.
The campaign was launched by the Qatar National Commission for Education, Culture and Science in partnership with the Unesco Office in Doha, the National Human Rights Committee (NHRC), Education Above All Foundation the Ministry of Education and Higher Education and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
“The global campaign for the right to education, which we are currently discussing, comes within the framework of the efforts of the State of Qatar to support the right to education at the national and international levels,” said Aisha Tawar Al Kuwari, Head of the Right to Education Campaign.
She said that as Unesco announced the campaign, the Qatar National Commission for Education, Culture and Science initiated by setting up a committee comprising members from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Education Above All Foundation, the Ministry of Education and Higher Education, the National Human Rights Committee and the Unesco Regional Office in Doha.
“The committee was assigned to make planning, supervise and carry out the activities and events held under the campaign for students, parents, associations and civil society organizations, and all parts of society, as each person has the right to education and lifelong learning,” said Al Kuwari. “We get together today with a number of officials and intellectuals to discuss with them the status and rights of the disabled persons.”
She said that the universal declaration on the rights of the disabled persons, issued by the United Nations General Assembly, affirms a set of basic rights that the disabled have the right to enjoy without discrimination because of disability, Which affirms their right to enjoy the full civil, political, economic and social rights enjoyed by other human beings, and in no way discriminate and respect for their human dignity.
“The State of Qatar spares no effort to integrate people with disabilities into any form of disability. It has provided them with all the means to obtain their right to education,” said Al Kuwari.
