Consideration of the combined third and fourth periodic reports submitted by Qatar under article 44 of the Convention, due in 2013

The Government of Qatar has submitted, to the Committee on the Rights of the Child, its combined third and fourth periodic report, which noted the progress made by the State concerning measures taken, resources allocated, and regulations, policies, programs and strategies introduced in the implementation of the Convention and the two Optional Protocols to the Convention on the Rights of the Child, on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography, and on the involvement of children in armed conflict.