Geneva/ 07 July 2014/ The State of Qatar has called for taking effective national and international measures to remove all obstacles facing girls' and women's right to education. This came during a speech delivered by Ms. Noor Ibrahim Al Sada, the second secretary at the Permanent Mission of Qatar to the UN , Geneva, during a general discussion session on girls' and women's right to education at the 58th session of the Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW). In her keynote speech, she said that although the girls' and women's right to education stated in a set of international and regional conventions on human rights, as stipulated in articles 10 of CEDAW convention, there are still many obstacles to be removed to provide this right , including poverty, negative stereotyping of women and lack of security in some areas. Ms. Noor reviewed a set of measures that can be adopted at the international and national level to ensure full compliance with the right of girls and women to education. At the national level , the Qatari senior official proposed to issue national legislations to ensure girls and women's right to education without discrimination, including admission requirements and enable them to enjoy all available advantages of education , with the necessity that the legislations would stipulate free and compulsory primary education for girls and women without discrimination. She called for the adoption of educational policy so as to develop strategies and plans aimed at providing gender-quality education with special consideration for the education of girls and women in extraordinary circumstances such as war, natural disasters in addition to a system for assessing and monitoring to ensure the effectiveness of the measures that have been taken. At the international level, she said that initiatives and global partnerships should be made to attract support for the provision of the right to education in developing countries, which suffer from exceptional circumstances. In this regard, Ms. Noor pointed to the initiative of HH Sheikha Moza bint Nasser , Chairperson of Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development (QF), who launched the Educate A Child (EAC) initiative aimed at providing the possibility of a good education for millions of children around the world, saying that there are so far two million children have benefited from this initiative , including a large proportion of girls who have been deprived of education for various reasons. Guranteeing girls and women's access to good education without discrimination would have impact on the community and ensures a better future for the children through the creation of opportunities lead to stability and development, she concluded.