The State of Qatar confirmed that women have received great attention, embodied in the adoption of national policies and legislation that empower them and build and enhance their capabilities by providing education and training opportunities and assuming public jobs, including leadership positions in Qatar. It also affirmed its interest in including a women's rights perspective in all social and economic development strategies including those concerned with the environment and climate change.
This came in the statement of the State of Qatar delivered by Ahmed Abdulaziz Al-Maliki Al-Juhani, Second Secretary of the Human Rights Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, before the Human Rights Council at its fiftieth session, during the first session of the annual full-day discussion on women’s human rights on: Exploring the relationship between climate change and violence against women. Women and girls from a human rights perspective.
With regard to promoting women's rights in the context of climate change, Al-Juhani stressed that the State of Qatar was keen to adopt an integrated approach at the national level to preserve the environment and address climate change that takes into account the need for environmental sustainability and the preservation of the rights of current and future generations.
He pointed out that the State of Qatar created an appreciable space for the environment and climate change in its National Vision 2030, which made the preservation and development of the environment one of the four main pillars of this vision, and added: "The State has also recently created a Ministry concerned with the environment and climate change to implement comprehensive and integrated policies and programs that support human rights and build capacity To maintain resilience, and launched a national strategy for the environment and climate change aimed at achieving a balance between the need to work in the field of climate change and environmental protection, and the need to promote sustainable social and economic development.