Qatar is keen to contribute to the efforts by the global community to maintain international peace and security in line with its strategic partnership with the United Nations. The country plays an active role in promotion of human rights, humanitarian assistance, and participates in collective action to address existing and emerging challenges facing the world.
It is omnipresent in most of the United Nations activities and in regional and international groups working on finding solutions to regional and international crises, conflict prevention, peacekeeping and post-conflict peace-building. It is one of the troop-contributing countries participating in the United Nations peacekeeping missions. As a contribution by Qatar to regional and international efforts, Doha has hosted conferences, meetings and workshops for the promotion of international peace and security, democracy, human rights and international peace.
Qatar celebrated International Human Solidarity Day on December 20. It believes in the importance of solidarity and international collective action and is at the forefront of efforts aimed at confronting various international challenges and crises. The country plays a leading role in humanitarian response and peacemaking in the region and the world.
As part of UN Sustainable Development Goals, Qatar attaches great importance to sustainable development at the national and international levels. It recognises that achieving sustainable development is a challenge for the countries and the international community must unitedly address it.
The country provides humanitarian and development assistance both at the bilateral level and through the United Nations all over the world, especially to the developing countries facing crises and natural disasters, through the Qatar Development Fund and the Department of International Development at Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In view of its significant humanitarian contributions, the country is a member of the Board of the United Nations Central Emergency Response Fund. Promotion and protection of human rights constitute the main pillar of Qatar’s policy. This approach has been highlighted in Qatar National Vision 2030 that includes sections dealing with human rights in education, health, the environment, labour rights, empowerment of women and the rights of the child.
The country is keen to support the United Nations organisations and enabling them to carry out their tasks and achieve the objectives for which they were established. Qatar has made voluntary contributions to many United Nations funds and programmes for poverty alleviation, providing basic education, and emergency response to disasters and crises. During the period from 2000 to 2014, Qatar made contributions to more than 41 entities of the United Nations.
