World Family Policy Center Newsletter

* News relative to protecting the family worldwide *

Volume 3 Issue 38 - October 16, 2004

• • • World Family Policy Center Announces • • •

The Doha International Conference for the Family

Location: Doha, Qatar,

Dates: November 29 - 30, 2004

Venue: Sheraton Hotel

The Doha International Conference for the Family celebrates the 10^th anniversary of the International Year of the Family and will highlight and collect the family-related efforts of governments, academicians, faith-based organizations, non-governmental organizations (NGO's), and members of civil society during a year-long series of events. This Global Forum is under the patronage of Her Highness ah bint Nasser Al-Misned, Consort of His Highness the Emir of Qatar, and President of the Supreme Council for Family Affairs, State of Qatar.

The Doha International Conference for the Family is the grand culminating event following regional conferences on the family that were held in Mexico City (World Congress of Families III), Stockholm, Sweden (Regional Conference on the Family), Geneva, Switzerland (European Regional Dialogue on the Family), and Kuala Lumpur (Asian/Pacific Regional Dialogue on the Family). In addition, findings from other family conferences held around the world including Africa, Latvia, Poland, Egypt, Argentina, and many others, along with 130 community meetings held internationally, will be reported.

Discussions, recommendations, and findings from these events have been channeled to the main international conference in Doha, Qatar.

The Conference represents an international assemblage bringing together international VIPs, governmental organizations, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), scholars, academicians and civil society leaders who will be invited by the State of Qatar to participate for the purpose to call upon all nations of the world to restate the principles related to family life embodied in the Universal Declaration on Human Rights, and to adhere to values and endeavor to promote the role of the family as it is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and state.

The Conference will conclude its events be adopting the Doha Declaration which will carry a message to the states of the world emphasizing the importance of restating the family and will call upon governments to be committed to promote the role of family and its protection as a fundamental unit of which society is made.

After the conclusion of these events, the Supreme Council for Family Affairs, in cooperation with pro-family NGO's, will prepare a book that compiles the most prominent events and academic findings of the Conference.

For more detailed information visit www.dicf.org.qa.

REGISTRATION:

To attend this historic conference please click here to register:

http://www.dicf.org.qa/english/Registration/index.asp