The Ministry of Social Development and Family in recent years has many laudable steps to protect the system of the foundation of a society - a family, which is based on religion and morals. The Ministry is supposed to propose and implement national strategies, plans and policies related to the care of the family and its members. It also raises community awareness of the importance of protecting the family and family cohesion. Collecting and analyzing data and statistics related to the family and benefiting from them in the relevant programmes, plans and policies, in coordination with the other governmental and private agencies is also part of Ministry’s job.
Yesterday, the Ministry of Social Development and Family inaugurated the ‘Family Charter’ under the theme: ‘Family is the treasure of a nation’, in a critical step towards promoting familial values and the role of family in building a tight-knit and sustainable community.
The inauguration was made through the signing of a giant mural across many places such as the Dadu Children’s Museum at Expo 2023 Doha, wisdom square and Wefaq Centre. The mural includes a substantial number of signers and will have a positive impact on reinforcing awareness and adhering to joint responsibility.
The mural will be available across the nation to garner a significant number of signatures through explaining the signers’ rights and duties. The inauguration ceremony features an awareness workshop to introduce the charter, its significance, and most important principles, such as the tight-knit family, social cohesion, as well as strengthening the religious values of the entire community.
Ministry of Social Development and Family H E Maryam bint Ali bin Nasser Al Misnad said the signature of the charter is a crucial step towards solidifying the familial ties and achieving the sustainable development, especially that family is the major incubator of individuals, not only through care but most importantly through helping the community members internalize the religious values.
The charter will ensure the right to language and identity for the entire community, along with the family duty towards the community, fathers’ duty towards sons, the right to national upbringing, the right to protect maternity and childhood, the right to human development, the right to expression and dialogue, the right to parental care, moral and religious legacies, mutual respect, as well as the duty to serve the community and homeland.
The family charter represents the legal framework that governs familial relationships in the state and is obviously focused on rights and duties of individuals and strives to achieve balance and justice in those relationships, she said, adding that it includes numerous aspects such as financial and economic rights of individuals, educational and health rights, as well as safeguarding the rights of women and children and bolstering justice values and mutual respect in the family.
