Human Trafficking in [Qatar] [other countries]
Street Children in [Qatar] [other countries]
Child Prostitution in [Qatar] [other countries]
 

Prevalence, Abuse & Exploitation of Street Children

State of Qatar [ Country-by-Country Reports ]

The State of Qatar is an independent emirate located in E Arabia, coextensive with the Qatar peninsula [map], which projects into the Persian Gulf. Its capital and largest city is Doha. Oil and gas account for more than 55% of GDP and long-term goals feature the development of offshore natural gas reserves to offset the ultimate decline in oil production. In recent years, Qatar has consistently posted trade surpluses largely because of high oil prices and increased natural gas exports, becoming one of the world's fastest growing and highest per-capita income countries. The modernization process has placed great stress on tribal identities, as well as family, religious, linguistic and ethnic loyalties.

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Child beggars thrive on Muslim holy season in Gulf states

According to a study by the Imam Mohammad bin Saud Islamic University in Riyadh published in the Saudi daily Okaz, more than 80,000 "street children" can be found at any one time in the six oil-rich Gulf Arab monarchies -- Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.

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UNICEF - The Big Picture

Bur of Democracy, Human Rights & Labor - Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2005

CHILDREN - The government is committed to the welfare of citizen children. The government provided for a well‑funded, free public education system (elementary through university) and a complete medical protection program. Education was compulsory for citizen children through the age of 15 and was free through primary school (the equivalent of ninth grade) for all citizen children and for non-citizen children whose parents worked in the government sector. Based on 2004 figures from the Planning Council, approximately 60 percent of school-age children attended school, and most children completed primary school. Medical coverage for non-citizen children was limited. The lack of primary educational and medical services to non-citizen children caused hardship for a substantial part of the expatriate population living in the country.

Concluding Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) - 2001

[55] The Committee is concerned about the lack of information on child labor within the agricultural and domestic service sectors.

Child beggars thrive on Muslim holy season in Gulf states

According to a study by the Imam Mohammad bin Saud Islamic University in Riyadh published in the Saudi daily Okaz, more than 80,000 "street children" can be found at any one time in the six oil-rich Gulf Arab monarchies -- Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.

Objections by Norway in Regard to the Reservations Made By Qatar to the CRC OP 2

The Government of Norway has examined the content of the reservation made by the Government of Qatar upon accession to the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography.

The reservation purports to give Islamic Shariah preference over the provisions of the Optional Protocol and does not clearly define to what extent Qatar has accepted the obligations of the latter. The Government of Norway therefore objects to the reservation, as it is contrary to the object and purpose of the Optional Protocol and thus impermissible according to well-established principles of international law.

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Human Trafficking in [Qatar] [other countries]
Street Children in [Qatar] [other countries]
Child Prostitution in [Qatar] [other countries]