A/HRC/14/2 41. The delegation mentioned that a number of efforts had been made to promote human rights education and to include human rights concepts in curricula at the various levels of education. 42. The delegation stated that a programme for the dissemination of the Convention on the Rights of the Child had been elaborated in cooperation with the Supreme Council for Family Affairs and UNESCO. A number of educational materials had been developed in this regard, and many workshops had been organized to train educators and specialists in the utilization of these materials. 43. The delegation stated that the rights of the child had been included in the curricula of military academies and various military training schools, and referred to the incorporation of human rights and sustainable development curricula in higher education. At the regional level, Qatar had participated in the formulation of the Arab plan for education on human rights. 44. The penal code had criminalized a large number of acts that could be defined as trafficking in persons, and had adopted the principle of universal jurisdiction with regard to crimes of human trafficking. The labour law had also addressed a number of issues related to the organization of work, the protection of the rights of workers and the prohibition of employing women and children in dangerous or hazardous work. 45. According to the delegation, Qatar had adopted a national strategy to combat human trafficking, which focused on combating child labour, in particular in camel racing. Law No. 22, adopted in 2005, prohibited bringing children into Qatar to work in camel racing; no breaches to this law had been recorded since. Qatar had joined the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and the Protocol thereto to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children. It has also acceded to the ILO Convention on Forced Labour. 46. The delegation reported that the Qatari foundation to combat trafficking in persons aimed at formulating policies, implementing laws and regulations and making recommendations with regard to combating human trafficking. The foundation also supervised the Qatari home for shelter and humanitarian assistance, which provided medical, psychological and social support to victims. It had organized training sessions for officials from the Ministry of the Interior and other departments dealing with human trafficking. 47. Qatar had acceded to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. The Government had continued its efforts to promulgate legislation in all areas to strengthen the rights of women and purge the existing texts, which contained discrimination against women. The most important of these were law No. 11 of 2004, which criminalized the crimes of rape and related indecent acts; law No. 2 of 2007 on housing, which enabled nationals to enjoy the right to housing between man and women; the law on passports, which had eliminated the condition of the husband’s approval for the issuance of a passport to the spouse; the laws on human resources and labour, which had established equality between men and women in access to work and wages, while taking into account the specificities of women, and prohibiting the employment of women in dangerous work. Also, a large category of women were afforded social protection and housing through a number of laws. 48. The delegation mentioned that the Qatari foundation for the protection of women and children aimed at protecting the unity of the family and society as a whole, and the protection of women and children from violence. Various shelters had been established to protect victims, provide them with legal assistance and integrate them into society. The foundation had offices in various medical and security institutions. It had offered training to 8