Qatar has always stood for the education of children both in the country as well as around the world.

While Qatar has invested heavily in improving educational infrastructure within the country, it has also been a catalyst in helping spread education all across the world. 

HH The Amir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, during the roundtable ‘Leaders Dialogue’ during the UN General Assembly in New York, announced his country’s intention to provide education to another one million girls by 2021, reported The Peninsula.

We believe that education is a human right. This makes our pursuit for providing education necessary especially in fragile and conflict- affected contexts for it’s importance in achieving economic and social development.

— تميم بن حمد (@TamimBinHamad) September 25, 2018

The Leaders Dialogue session discussed about ways to provide education for girls in the context of conflict and fragile conditions.

The discussion was held at the invitation of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, within the framework of the ‘Charlevoix Declaration on Quality Education for Girls, Adolescent Girls and Women in Developing Countries’ issued at the 2018 G7 Summit in Canada.

Accordingly I announced that the State of Qatar pledges to provide quality education for one million girls by 2021, in support also of the Charlevoix Declaration on Education for Girls and Women. #girlseducation pic.twitter.com/ULhU6gdsy6

— تميم بن حمد (@TamimBinHamad) September 25, 2018

HH the Amir announced his complete support for the Charlevoix Declaration, especially as Qatar has always given priority to education at both local and global levels, reported Qatar Tribune.

As part of Qatar's keenness on education, HH the Amir said the country had led the efforts to issue the UN’s landmark resolution on the right to education in emergency situations in 2010.

The resolution indicated that a large proportion of the world’s out-of-school children lived in conflict-affected areas and in natural disaster-stricken regions.

Qatar’s initiative ‘Educate A Child’ had recently succeeded in helping 10m marginalised and out-of-school children to receive quality primary education.