It is working for the welfare of widows, orphans, disabled, needy and poor persons irrespective of sex, caste, creed or religion.

These funds have been used for girls education, immunization, OVCs, life skills education, nutrition, malaria prevention, child protection, and programme support.

Much remained to be done to address the continuing high HIV prevalence rate and the growing number of OVC.

Work on the strategy for addressing shelter problems for women and orphans affected by HIV AIDS in informal settlements is ongoing in East Africa.

Zakat The Islamic system of Zakat (two and a half annual tax on all unspent wealth and assets) is designed to benefit widows, orphans, the poor and those in dire need.

Work on the strategy for addressing shelter problems regarding HIV AIDS infected women and orphans in informal settlements is ongoing in East Africa.

No citizen shall have his freedom of action curtailed or shall be detained or imprisoned except as provided by law. The Kingdom acceded to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, pursuant to Decree M 11 of 4 4 A.H. 1418 (7 August 1997).

Even more threatened than children from poor families are orphans and those entrusted with their care by the social welfare system, because all these systems are too weak in material terms to provide proper care.

The Committee notes with concern that certain groups are at a particularly higher risk of being sold, trafficked and exploited, i.e. street children, orphans, stateless persons, migrants, persons belonging to ethnic minorities and refugees asylum seekers (arts. 8 and 24).

In Qatar, the Department of Social Affairs endeavours to maintain the coherence of the family and to prevent its disintegration through the implementation of programmes and plans focusing on low income social groups as well as on older persons, orphans, divorced women and abandoned wives, and the families of prison inmates.

Recognizing also the need to give special attention, in providing access to shelter, to persons with disabilities, single parent families and especially single mothers, aged persons, orphans and abandoned children, refugees and internally displaced persons, minorities and indigenous people,

It is anticipated that additional other resources will be received for the last two years of the country programme cycle for polio eradication, PMTCT, OVCs, girls' education and adolescent participation and development.