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UN Development Programme (UNDP)
Executive Board: Qatar

Up to 90 percent of Qatar's population is composed of noncitizens, including expatriates and migrant workers as well as some stateless residents, who have no political rights or electoral opportunities. Photo: Qatari migrant workers (Courtesy Wikimedia Commons)
Source: Freedom House, March 4, 2020

Mission of the UN Development Programme: "UNDP works in nearly 170 countries and territories, helping to achieve the eradication of poverty, and the reduction of inequalities and exclusion... UNDP focuses on helping countries build and share solutions in three main areas: Sustainable development; Democratic governance and peacebuilding; Climate and disaster resilience." (UN Development Programme website, "Overview")

Term of office: 2022-2024

Qatar's Record on "democratic governance and peacebuilding":
"Qatar is a constitutional monarchy in which Amir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani exercises full executive power. The constitution provides for hereditary rule by men in the amir's branch of the Al Thani family... Significant human rights issues included: restrictions on free expression, including criminalization of libel; restrictions on peaceful assembly and freedom of association, including prohibitions on political parties and labor unions;...limits on the ability of citizens to choose their government in free and fair elections;... The constitution does not provide citizens the ability to choose their government in free and fair periodic elections held by secret ballot and based on universal and equal suffrage. The government did not allow the formation of political parties or opposition groups..."
(U.S. State Department's Country Report on Human Rights Practices 2020, Qatar)

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