Supreme Council for Family Affairs, in collaboration with Ministry of Municipality and Agricultural Affairs and UN Special Reporter on Disability Office, organized during the period November 19th-20th 2007 at the Marriott Hotel a workshop titled Ensuring Access Rights of Persons with Disability which concluded with a number of recommendations submitted by participants with disability. The recommendations were related to their situation and included their principal demand of including in public buildings, malls and banks access facilities such as the provision of lifts suitable for cripples and persons using walking sticks. A number of persons with disability criticized most compounds and banks for not taking into consideration this group despite the efforts exerted by the State concerning legislations and laws to empower persons with disability and include them in the societal environment

HE Sheikha Hessa bint Khalifa bin Ahmed Al-Thani, UN Special Reporter on Disability revealed the State of Qatar's intention to ratify the Convention on Persons with Disability's Rights to empower persons with disability so that the State becomes among the states of advanced countries in the field of persons with disability care, besides caring for transforming the persons with disability Qatari law into national plans available for the persons with disability's use. Among these rights are access opportunities rights and facilities. HE stated that SCFA is the umbrella of all bodies, as it is the overseer of policies and plans, and committees will be formed to follow-up the activation of these recommendations

On his part HE Sheikh Mohammed bin Jabor Al-Thani, Technical Affairs Director-Manager at the Ministry of Municipality and Agricultural Affairs confirmed the importance of preparing an engineering manual for persons with disability, especially because the buildings in the State are still not suitable for persons with disability, and they lack the access facilities to persons with disability. HE indicated the necessity of the commitment to the recommendations submitted by persons with disability and seeking to have them taken into consideration so that the State of Qatar will be among there advanced countries in the field of persons with disability care

It suffices to say that the Workshop discussed a number of work papers which were:

**International efforts in the field of facilitating persons with disability's access
**Reviewing Qatar for All Program: Local efforts to facilitate and ensure persons with disability's rights, reviewing charts and planning and constructional specifications of persons with disability's buildings
**A paper titled Toward Solidifying an Integral Living System Free from Constructional Obstacles to Include Persons with Disability (a straight-forward study to rehabilitate buildings of public facilities and services to suit the use of persons with disability)