A/HRC/44/44/Add.2 • Education above All Foundation, established in 2012, which aims to provide education to children in areas of poverty and armed conflicts. • The Doha International Family Institute, which was established in 2006 with the aim of promoting policies and programs concerned with the family. • The Doha International Center for Interfaith Dialogue in 2010 aims to foster a culture of interfaith dialogue and peaceful coexistence among believers. • Mada Center which was established in 2010 with the aim of consolidating the meanings of digital inclusion and building an accessible technology community for people with disabilities and the elderly. • The public institution of the Katara Cultural District, which was established in 2008 and aims to promote the cultural movement through festivals, exhibitions, seminars, concerts and all forms of artistic expression. It includes a number of numerous centers and societies, of which: The Sniper Association, the Children's Cultural Center, Burooq Magazine, the Poetry Council, the Bedaya Center, the Katara Art Center, Siwar Choir, the Arab Stamp Museum, the Qatar Philharmonic Orchestra, the Voice of the Gulf Radio, the Qatar Society for Fine Arts, the Qatar Society for Photography Optical, Visual Arts Center, Doha Film Foundation, Qatar Museums Authority, Qatar Society of Engineers. • Qatar's Regulatory Authority for Charitable Activities, found in 2014 and aims to support and encourage charity works and their organization. It includes 15 charities under its umbrella, for example we mention: Qatar Charity Society, Qatar Red Crescent Society, Sheikh Eid Charitable Foundation, Thani Bin Abdullah Foundation for Humanitarian Works (RAF), Qatar Society for Rehabilitation of Special Needs, Qatar Cancer Society. We also find in practice that there are many civil society institutions that have already been created and established by non-Qatari citizens, including, but not limited to, societies that carry out humane social activity such as the Gulf Heart Association, and the Qatar Nursing Society. We also find civil society organizations registered in the state in Qatar Financial Center, which amounted to 27 organizations with a variety of purposes, including sports, professional, educational, social and cultural ones, established by non-Qataris. Moreover, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs conducts the registration of non-Muslim places of worship totaling “20” so far and which are considered to be religious civil society organizations. This information is in accordance with the expert's recommendation No. (50). Secondly: The Economic diversification and combating the climate change In reference to what is in paragraph (23) and paragraph (27) the economic development and environmental development constitutes one of the pillars of Qatar vision that seek to develop a diverse and competitive national economy as well as the protection of the environment. Within the framework of the state of Qatar endeavors to achieve its goals the state was able to consolidate position on the world economic map. Lately, it was classified as one of the fastest emerging economies in the world and ranked first in the Arab world in the security index issued by the Global Finance for the world safety and security measures in 2019, the first in the Arab world in the world index of entrepreneurship issued by the World Institute of Entrepreneurship and Development in 2018, the second in the world in the economic Freedom Index of The American Heritage Institution, also in the Global Competitiveness Report in 2018, ranked state of Qatar first for the reduction of inflation rates and globally the sixth, in the non-effect of taxation on competition, the eighth in the availability of the investment capital and ninth for financing Small and Medium Enterprises - attributed to its policies of achieving a robust and diversified economy. Also, the State of Qatar pays a greater attention to tackling the Climate change and confirms this during implementing a number of projects and initiatives that contribute to the efforts exerted to reduce the air pollution, reduction of Carbon dioxide and increasing of dependence on renewal energy. The State of Qatar plays a bigger role in the field of 4

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